Volume 7 Issue 2

▪ Keyword : policy, food and nutrition policy, International Conference on Nutrition, national plans of action for nutrition

▪ Content : It has been estimated that over 700 million people still do not have enough food to eat on a daily basis and that more than 2 billion are subsisting on diets that lack the essential vitamins and minerals required for normal growth and development and to prevent premature death and disabilities such as blindness and mental retardation.

▪ Keyword : slum school children, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm, albendazole

▪ Content : A longitudinal study was conducted over the period August 1993 to August 1994 on 217 children from a fishing community of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

▪ Keyword : helminth infection, growth, appetite, physical activity, Indonesia

▪ Content : The effect of treatment for helminth infections on growth, appetite, and physical activity was investigated in Indonesian schoolchildren with Ascaris and Trichuris infections.

▪ Keyword : Salmonella typhi, bone marrow, cytokine, immunosuppression, immunotherapy

▪ Content : Balanced diet fed (BDF) rats injected with Salmonella typhi 'H' antigen showed an initial suppression of an immunomodulatory bone marrow cytokine FrL (BM-Frl) followed by stimulation, whereas the cytokine secretory pattern showed only stimulation in immunized vitamin B complex malnourished rats.

▪ Keyword : lipoprotein(a), zygosity, molecular weight, phenotypes, risk threshold

▪ Content : Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) and apolipoprotein(a) (apo(a)) phenotypes as genetic markers for coronary heart disease (CHD) have been the focus of great interest in recent times.

▪ Keyword : carnitine, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, triglycerides, percentage of body fat

▪ Content : L-carnitine plays an important role as a factor necessary for the transport of long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria.

▪ Keyword : South Africa, helminth, fatty acids, school children

▪ Content : Intestinal helminth infections may reduce nutrient availability and thereby impair cognitive growth and other functions.

▪ Keyword : height, weight, stunting, growth, anthropometry

▪ Content : In order to better define the trends and patterns of growth for children of Asian refugee families residing in the USA, we studied the anthropometric data from 12 states collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS) from 1979 to 1993.

▪ Keyword : Chinese, China, Beijing, food intake, meal pattern

▪ Content : This study investigated the food composition patterns of 430 Beijing-Chinese adults and assessed the impact on these patterns of the following socio-demographic characteristics: gender, age, educational achievement, and gross household income.

▪ Keyword : iodized salt, iodine, processed food

▪ Content : The effects of iodized salt use on the quality of processed Philippine food products were evaluated.

▪ Keyword : Papua New Guinea, Lae, iodine deficiency, salt

▪ Content : Papua New Guinea (PNG) is among those areas of the world where soils lack iodine.

▪ Keyword : iodine supplementation, salt, fish sauce, drinking water, iodine deficiency disorder

▪ Content : The possibility of improving iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) in school children in Khon Kaen province was investigated during the period of 1 year, using an operational research approach.

▪ Keyword : levothyroxine, goitre, Malaysia, Aborigines, indigenous people, iodine deficiency

▪ Content : In order to study the effect of levothyroxine in the treatment of endemic goitre, a longitudinal study was conducted among the Aborigines in Lanai Post and Sinderut Post, situated in an iodine-deficient area located in the district of Kuala Lipis, Pahang.

▪ Keyword : Madura, Indonesia, Belgium, hair zinc, hair copper, infant

▪ Content : The objective of this study was to determine the zinc and copper status in hair of a group of Indonesian infants aged 0-5 months, a period when growth faltering in this population is known to occur, and to determine the daily zinc and copper availability in the habitual diet.

▪ Keyword : vitamin A deficiency, preschoolers, conjunctival impression cytology, serum vitamin A, Philippines

▪ Content : Comparison of conjunctival impression cytology (CIC) with ocular signs and vitamin A levels was done based upon a national nutrition survey involving 427 randomly selected subjects aged 6 months to 6 years.