Category: Diets and nutrients

Addressing the nutritional needs of older people in emergency situations: ideas for action

Summary of Report.

Issue 12, April 2001 (page 3)

Adequacy of Replacement Milks for Infants of HIV-Infected Mothers

Summary of published research.

Issue 22, July 2004 (page 5)

African wild harvest project

The ‘African Wild Harvest’ project is a collaboration between the Royal Botanic Garden Kew and the UK Medical Research Council’s Resource Centre for Human Nutrition Research (HNR), Cambridge.

Issue 16, August 2002 (page 10)

Analysis of the 1996 Konzo outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo

Summary of published paper.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 7)

Appropriateness of Replacement Milks in South Africa

Summary of published paper.

Issue 23, November 2004 (page 5)

Assessing the economic value of fortified foods

Summary of published paper.

Issue 14, November 2001 (page 6)

Challenges of dealing with unsolicited donations during emergencies

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) experienced very heavy rainfall that caused severe floods in six provinces of the country during August 2007.

Issue 34, October 2008 (page 42)

Cost of the Diet – novel approach to estimate affordability of a nutritious diet

This article provides an overview of a novel method developed by Save the Children UK to calculate the cost of an ideal diet, with results from two case studies and a discussion of the limitations to the approach and intended next steps for its development.

Issue 34, October 2008 (page 21)

Dietary Treatment of Severe Malnutrition in Adults

A recently published paper reports the results of a study conducted by Concern Worldwide on severely malnourished adults in Baidoa, Somalia, a town at the epicentre of the 1992 famine.

Issue 6, February 1999 (page 11)

Enset - The ‘False Banana’ as Food Security

This article describes Self Help Development International’s experiences of using the staple crop, Enset, in their programming in Ethiopia, and the potential it holds for improving food security in drought affected areas.

Issue 22, July 2004 (page 3)

Excess dietary iodine in long-term African refugees

Summary of published research.

Issue 28, July 2006 (page 7)

Food Intake in Pregnancy During Indonesian Crisis

Summary of published paper.

Issue 21, March 2004 (page 6)

Global Trends in Malnutrition

Summary of published paper.

Issue 23, November 2004 (page 5)

Grass Pea Consumption and Neurolathyrism

Summary of published paper.

Issue 22, July 2004 (page 5)

Increased diarrhoea following infant formula distribution in 2006 earthquake response in Indonesia: evidence and actions

Natural disasters are common in Indonesia. While still recovering from a series of such events, a severe earthquake struck Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces during the morning hours of May 27, 2006.

Issue 34, October 2008 (page 30)

Infant Feeding in Emergencies: Experiences from Indonesia and Lebanon

On the 27th May 2006 a strong earthquake had a devastating impact on two provinces on Java Island in Indonesia killing 5,778 people. Major infrastructural damage left 3.2 million people affected.

Issue 29, December 2006 (page 3)

Infant feeding in the South Asia earthquake aftermath

This article describes the infant feeding situation and the initial interventions to protect, promote and support appropriate infant feeding practices during the relief efforts in Pakistan following the 8 October 2005 earthquake.

Issue 27, March 2006 (page 3)

Is extrusion cooking of blended foods really advantageous?

Published Paper.

Issue 10, July 2000 (page 4)

Konzo Associated with War in Mozambique

Summary of published paper.

Issue 5, October 1998 (page 7)

Management of shigellosis in undernourished children

Summary of published paper.

Issue 13, August 2001 (page 6)

Micronutrients - The Basics

Taken from draft guideline material prepared by Fiona Watson, Institute of Child health, London.

Issue 5, October 1998 (page 26)

NGOnut discussion summaries - cassava poisoning, and HIV and breastfeeding

The following are edited summaries of e-mail correspondence from the NGO Nutrition Association (NGO Nut) which may be of interest to readers.

Issue 2, August 1997 (page 9)

NGOnut discussion summaries - ORS v Resomal, Lactose intolerance, and split peas

O.R.S OR RESOMAL, LACTOSE INTOLERANCE, SPLIT PEAS.

Issue 3, January 1998 (page 26)

Nutritional status of children and pregnant and lactating women in relief camps in post-tsunami Sri Lanka

Summary of published research.

Issue 30, April 2007 (page 10)

Postscript on local capacity building for treatment of severe malnutrition

International NGOs usually provide better treatment for children with severe malnutrition in their feeding centres than is provided by local hospitals.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 22)

Postscript to 'Infant feeding in tsunami affected villages in India'

Postscript.

Issue 29, December 2006 (page 10)

Postscript to 'Production of fortifed blended foods in Kenya'

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Issue 2, August 1997 (page 7)

Rapid impact on malnutrition through a multi-faceted programme in Wolayita, Southern Ethiopia

Most people have heard of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention - known as CDC.

Issue 12, April 2001 (page 19)

Recurrent pellagra in Angola

Summary of report.

Issue 15, April 2002 (page 6)

Reduce Scurvy Risk through Germination!

Summary of published paper.

Issue 5, October 1998 (page 9)

Storage, preparation, and usage of fortified food aid

Summary of published research.

Issue 36, July 2009 (page 9)

Study of the Risk Factors for the Development of Nutritional Oedema in North Kivu, DRC

This article is based on findings of a report written by Mark Myatt which, in turn, is based on the findings of research undertaken by Save the Children UK in DRC.

Issue 26, November 2005 (page 5)

Suspected toxic ingestion outbreak in central Afghanistan

Humanitarian assistance operations in Afghanistan are only just beginning to reach beyond major towns and cities.

Issue 16, August 2002 (page 7)

Treating severe malnutrition in nonemergency situations: Experiences from Malawi and Guinea

The article below highlights the difficulties of providing effective treatment for severe malnutrition in non-emergency situations within local health structures based on experiences in Malawi and Guinea.

Issue 17, November 2002 (page 20)

VitaGoat

micro-enterprise responds to malnutrition.

Issue 20, November 2003 (page 13)

Wild Foods – More Evidence for their Importance in the Diet

Published paper.

Issue 7, July 1999 (page 9)

Wild Foods — Blessing or Burden?

For the purposes of the research wild foods were defined as ‘naturally growing plants’ (although the author recognised that some of these plants have become domesticated).

Issue 6, February 1999 (page 16)