Objectives: Integrated Risk-Benefit Analysis (RBA) compares the risk of a situation to its related benefits and addresses the acceptability of the risk. Over the past years RBA in relation to food and food ingredients has gained attention. Food, and even the same food ingredient,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20990
Objectives: To characterize current feeding practices and to evaluate the adequacy of selected micronutrient intakes of young children in subsistence farming rural households in North Wollo, Ethiopia. Methods: Using a cross-sectional survey on 76 breastfed young children (aged 12...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21096
Objectives: Governmental research institutes in Europe/world are confronted with the problem that good scientific reports are produced directly for governmental sponsors and are published on an institute's website only. However, scientists like to publish their work in the scient...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20991
Alex Brito, Joshua W. Miller, Sergey N. Fedosov, Setareh Shahab-Ferdows, Hugo Sanchez, Cecilia Albala, Renato Verdugo, Ricardo Uauy & Lindsay H. Allen·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: It has been reported that low vitamin B12 status and high serum folate is associated with anemia and cognitive impairment. However, few data are available on neurophysiological outcomes, such as peripheral neurophysiology. The objective was to assess associations betw...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21245
Objectives: To study the stability and content of inherent food iodine or iodine from iodized salt in commonly used Indian recipes. Methods: The study was carried out in 23 states in India covering 48 districts and the most commonly used recipes from each selected district were t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20992
Objectives: This paper measures the level of basic vitamin A knowledge nationally in Bangladesh and relates this knowledge to the sources of information on which a woman relies. It also reviews the relationship between knowledge of vitamin A and vitamin A intake in children and w...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21246
Objectives: To assess the diagnostic performance of serum concentrations of retinol-binding protein (RBP), transthyretin, retinol concentration measured by fluorometry and RBP:transthyretin molar ratio, either alone or in combination, to estimate the prevalence of vitamin A defic...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20993
Objectives: Few data are available on the effectiveness of large-scale food fortification programs. We conducted representative surveys 2 y before and 1 y after introduction of vitamin A (VA)-fortified cooking oil and iron-fortified wheat flour to assess program impact on VA and...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21097
Objectives: 93.4% of children aged 6-59 months old have malaria in Sikasso, Mali, and 83.5% have anemia. Our qualitative research sought to inform the home fortification with micronutrient powders (MNP) component of a malaria and anemia prevention project with seasonal malaria ch...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20994
Objectives: To estimate the micronutrient availability and adequacy of the food supply of Bangladesh and estimate the additional agricultural output needed to achieve nutrient adequacy. Methods: We estimated micronutrient availability of the food supply using an average of 5 year...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21247
Objectives: Home fortification is an innovative way to improve the diet with essential nutrients for targeted vulnerable groups who have higher requirements or do not benefit from other micronutrient interventions. As a relatively new program, there is a tremendous need for techn...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20995
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the zinc content of some infants and young children foods and supplementations available in supermarkets and pharmacies. Methods: 1.0 g of food samples were digested by wet ashing method and the content of zinc in the infant food...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21248
Nilupa Gunaratna, Honorati Masanja, Sigilbert Mrema, Francis Levira, Donna Spiegelman, Ellen Hertzmark, Naomi Saronga, Kahema Irema, Mary Shuma, Ester Elisaria & Wafaie Fawzi·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Women's nutritional status during conception and early pregnancy can influence maternal and infant outcomes. This study examined the efficacy of pre-pregnancy supplementation with iron and multivitamins to reduce anemia prevalence during the periconceptional period am...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20996
Objectives: The Scaling-Up-Nutrition movement recognizes the importance of multi-stakeholder partnerships to deliver high-impact nutrition interventions. A private-public partnership in Lao PDR - supported by MMG Limited and involving the Ministry of Health (MoH), UNICEF, Populat...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21098
Objectives: Diarrhea is a key public health challenge in Kenya with a prevalence of 17% and contributes to 21% of underfive child deaths. Whereas effective treatment is available, its uptake is very low with 39% and less than 1% receiving ORS and Zinc respectively. Current diarrh...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20997