Volume 6 Issue 3

▪ Keyword : prevention, disorder, dieting, NHMRC initiative

▪ Content : Screening school-aged children, adolescents and women in their 20s and 30s for frank eating or dieting disorders, and for disordered attitudes and behaviours with respect to weight, shape and food, would provide demographic information of value in planning clinical services in Australia.

▪ Keyword : lipid profile, anthropometry, dietary habits, adolescent, Sri Lanka

▪ Content : Serum lipid profiles, anthropometric parameters, dietary habits and smoking practice were determined in 637 adolescent school boys in the 10th to 13th year of school (mean age 16.7 +- 1.3 years), to determine the prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in later life.

▪ Keyword : macronutrient, elderly, Indonesia

▪ Content : We examined the macronutrient intake of residents in Padang area, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

▪ Keyword : amino acid, beef protein, supplement, male

▪ Content : In the present study the plasma amino acid response of six lean subjects to a protein meal and a commercial amino acid supplement were compared.

▪ Keyword : iodine, pregnant, endemic, deficiency, India

▪ Content : For the last 40 years the Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh, India, has been recognised as an area of endemic iodine deficiency.

▪ Keyword : menopause, CHD, mortality, Asia Pacific

▪ Content : This study examines the mortality rates of men and women from coronary heart disease (CHD) in a number of Asia-Pacific countries with very different indices of this disorder.

▪ Keyword : biotechnology, phenolics, Lamiaceae

▪ Content : Phytochemicals from herbs and fermented legumes are excellent dietary sources of phenolic metabolites.

▪ Keyword : overweight, obese, children, ethnic group, Malaysia

▪ Content : 6239 children aged 7 to 16 years, attending 22 primary and secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were screened using a self report questionnaire, with their heights and weights measured using a digital electronic SECA beam balance.

▪ Keyword : body mass index, young, adults, Chinese

▪ Content : Body mass index of young Chinese adults aged 20 to 45 years was assessed in relation to household income, energy and macronutrient consumption.

▪ Keyword : adiposity, metabolic alteration, hypertension, case control

▪ Content : Indians are particularly susceptible to chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease.

▪ Keyword : validity, body fat percent, Chinese, children, prediction formulas

▪ Content : Body composition was measured by underwater weighing and by anthropometry and bio-electrical impedence in 165 Chinese boys and 150 Chinese girls, aged 7 to 17 years and living in Beijing.

▪ Keyword : weight, skinfolds, circumference, poor, elderly

▪ Content : This paper describes the anthropometric characteristics of 1,335 (males 545, females 790) people of low socioeconomic classes aged 50-97 years (mean age 60 years) living in slums and tenement blocks around a major teaching hospital in central Mumbai (Bombay).

▪ Keyword : FIRI, Fasting Insulin Resistance Index, insulin resistance, predictors, rural, Chinese

▪ Content : Insulin Resistance Syndrome (IRS) refers to a cluster of pathologies including hypercholesterolaemia, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease indicating that these disease share a common aetiology in insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia.

▪ Keyword : dyslipidaemia, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, armed forces, Kuala Lumpur

▪ Content : The profile of serum lipids and lipoprotein, namely cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoprotein and low density lipoprotein, was studied in 70 patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus at armed forces clinics around Kuala Lumpur from June through to August 1994.