Volume 8 Issue 1

▪ Keyword : Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society 1999 Award

▪ Content : Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society 1999 Award

▪ Keyword : type 2 diabetes, obesity, exercise, primary prevention, Polynesians

▪ Content : It has been postulated that changes in lifestyle follow five 'stages of change', which reflect a 'decisional balance' between the advantages and disadvantages of making such a change.

▪ Keyword : dietary history, high-fat diet, body fat, lipoprotein lipase, leptin

▪ Content : The effects of high-fat diet feeding over generations on body fat accumulation were studied in rats.

▪ Keyword : free radicals, antioxidants, flavonoids, DNA damage, isoprostanes

▪ Content : The oxidative degradation of polyunstaurated fatty acids is the primary factor in limiting the shelf-life of most manufactured foods.

▪ Keyword : oxalate content, oxalic acid, plants, synthesis, absorption

▪ Content : Oxalic acid and its salts occur as end products of metabolism in a number of plant tissues.

▪ Keyword : obesity, diabetes, epidemic, global, WHO

▪ Content : Obesity is at last being recognized as a major public health problem of global significance.

▪ Keyword : gestational diabetes, fetal outcome, inter generational diabetes, Asian women, obesity

▪ Content : Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a new epidemic among Australian women, especially those with Asian backgrounds.

▪ Keyword : Editorial

▪ Content : Editorial

▪ Keyword : antioxidant nutrients, American adults, Chinese adults, Korean adults, carotenoids

▪ Content : Population variabilities of serum carotenoid and tocopherol levels using reverse-phase HPLC in healthy American (Caucasian), Chinese and Korean adults were determined.

▪ Keyword : Maldives, iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), public health, water, islands

▪ Content : Because the Maldives is a country of islands it has been assumed, until now, that iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) are not a public health problem.

▪ Keyword : iodine deficiency disorders, iodine capsules, iodized salt, risk factors

▪ Content : In order to ascertain the coverage and to identify factors determining the success of an iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) control program in West Sumatra, Indonesia, a cross-sectional study among 495 school children aged 6-15 years in a subdistrict of an endemic goitre area was conducted.

▪ Keyword : nutritional profile, chronic pancreatitis, diet, India

▪ Content : The nutritional status of patients with chronic pancreatitis was assessed in 76 consecutive patients (63 males, mean age 35 +- 10 years; 13 females, mean age 40+- 16 years) attending the pancreas clinic of a tertiary care hospital in India.

▪ Keyword : food composition, indigenous fruit, indigenous vegetables, Sarawak, Malaysia

▪ Content : The proximate composition including mineral and vitamin contents of 16 fruits and 46 vegetables (leaves, fruits, palm hearts and shoots) of indigenous origin in Sarawak are provided.

▪ Keyword : glycemic index, triglyceride index, insulin index, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, plantain

▪ Content : Glycemic indices have been used to predict useful carbohydrate sources of food for patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) on dietary management programs.

▪ Keyword : iron, vitamin C, rice, water spinach, Convolvulacaea

▪ Content : The iron and vitamin C content of water spinach and rice samples from three sites in Vietnam were chemically analysed.