Volume 8 Issue 2

▪ Keyword : iron deficiency anaemia (IDA), school-aged children, event-related potentials (P300), cognitive function

▪ Content : Event-related potentials (ERP) were assessed in 70 school-aged children with a diagnosis of asymptomatic iron deficiency anaemia (IDA), based on low haemoglobin and either low serum ferritin or high free erhthrocyte protoporhyrin levels.

▪ Keyword : calibration, food frequency questionnaire, diet record, Samoan ethnic group

▪ Content : The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire for measuring the usual dietary intake of Samoans living in New Zealand.

▪ Keyword : body composition, bio-electrical impedance, extracellular water, total body water, Indonesia

▪ Content : Three different adult Indonesian population groups living on Sumatra (Palembang), Java (Depok) and Sulawesi (Makale) participated in a study on body composition.

▪ Keyword : beta-carotene, cryptoxanthin, lycopene, carotenoids, gastric cancer

▪ Content : Carotenoid concentrations were measured in serum and in both non-cancerous and cancerous gastric mucosal tissues of Korean patients with gastric cancer (n=18).

▪ Keyword : nutrition situation analysis, women, agriculture, food consumption, growth

▪ Content : India is an agricultural country and the majority of India's population live in rural areas.

▪ Keyword : children, fatty acids, fish supplementation, growth, undernutrition

▪ Content : A group of 102 preschool children aged 13-69 months from a rural area of Lebowa were selected from a cross-sectional study of 659 children for an intervention trial (12 months) to study the effect of catfish (Clarias gariepinus) supplementation on their plasma phospholipid fatty acid status and growth.

▪ Keyword : aorta, palm oil, soya bean oil, ghee, spontaneously hypertensive rats

▪ Content : Edible oils have different effects on lipid profiles and on the propensity for producing lipid peroxidation products.

▪ Keyword : red blood cells, turmeric, hemolysis, lipid peroxidation

▪ Content : The protective effect of the aqueous extracted turmeric antioxidant protein on H2O2-induced red blood cell lipid peroxidation and hemolysis was investigated.

▪ Keyword : ovariectomy, high lipid diet, oils, saturated, unsaturated

▪ Content : Intestinal transference of calcium and rate of bone turnover were evaluated in ovariectomized rats fed for 15 days with a high amount (30%) of lipid enriched with monounsaturated (groundnut oil), polyunsaturated (sunflower oil) and saturated (coconut oil) fatty acids.

▪ Keyword : adolescents, nutritional status, underweight, overweight, menarche

▪ Content : There are 200 million Chinese adolescents and they represent a significant proportion of the world adolescent population.

▪ Keyword : urban, anthropometry, elderly, undernutrition, obesity

▪ Content : As part of the Cross-Cultural Research on Nutrition of Older Subjects (CRONOS) project, the aim of this cross-sectional study was to observe the nutritional status and body composition of free-living elderly and middle-aged people in a low-income area of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

▪ Keyword : dumb-bell exercise, low calorie diet, resting metabolic rate, diet-induced thermogenesis, body composition

▪ Content : The effects of dumb-bell exercise (aerobic-resistance exercise) with and without low calorie diet (LCD) therapy on resting metabolic rate (RMR), diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT) and body composition were studied in 12 mildly obese women aged 19-20 years.

▪ Keyword : obesity, non-communicable disease, lifestyle change, weight loss competition, healthy weight-for-height

▪ Content : A health and weight awareness program was initiated in 1995 by the Tonga National Food and Nutrition Committee to combat a high prevalence of obesity and its associated non-communicable diseases.