Objectives: In India, 56% of adolescent girls are anemic. In response to this situation and building on 13 years of evidence-generation using a knowledge-centred framework (evidence, innovation, evaluation and replication), India's adolescent girls anemia control programme was un...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20988
Stephen Vosti, Reina Engle-Stone, Justin Kagin, Joanne Arsenault, Robert Hijmans, Ryan Murphy, Erica Rettig, Ann Tarini & Kenneth H. Brown·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Micronutrient (MN) interventions are generally undertaken at national scale. New spatially disaggregated data on MN deficiencies in Cameroon suggest that subnational strategies may be more efficient, but methods to choose among alternative interventions are needed. ...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21244
Objectives: Food development in the European Union (EU) is subject to changes, based on developments in food legislation or on changing demands in food composition for better nutrition and improved public health. Methods: The legal environment in Europe is laid down in Regulation...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20989
Parmi Suchdev, O. Yaw Addo, Frederick Grant, Reynaldo Martorell, Laird Ruth, Minal Patel, Patricia Juliao, Rob Quick & Rafael Flores-Ayala·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Although micronutrient powders (MNPs) are considered the preferred approach for childhood anemia control, concerns about iron-related morbidity from clinical trials challenge programmatic scale-up. We aimed to measure the association of community-based sales of MNPs w...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21213
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