Contents of Nutrition and Health Volume 17 issue 3

Copyright 2003 A B Academic Publishers

Abdul Naser Al-Isa

Are Kuwaitis getting fatter?

Comparison of Body Mass Index (BMI)  in sample groups drawn from primary health care clinics in 1980-81 and  in 1993-94.

Amanda Kirby

School children: their health and the challenge.

The Cleave Award Lecture 2002.

Tom Stockdale

Obesity, diabetes and other problems

Transcript of a talk given to the McCarrison Society Scottish Group April 2003.  The author argues the case that obesity, diabetes and most other diseases of civilisation are manifestations of selenium deficiency.

Malcolm Peet

Nutrition and Schizophrenia: an epidemiological and clinical perspective

There is well accepted evidence that the long-term outcome of schizophrenia is better in developing than in developed countries.  There is also disputed evidence that it is rare in indigenous populations but increases on contact with Western or industrialised cultures. Diet is a possible mediating factor for the disease.

J.I. Anetor, O.A. Ajose,  O. Ige, A.O. Oyeleye and P.O. Ojo

Antioxidant status of adult Nigerian asthmatics: implications for prognosis

Serum antioxidant status of adult asthmatic patients aged 40-50 years measured.  Magnesium, Vitamin C, uric acid and albumin levels were  lower in patients than in controls.  Copper and zinc were about the same, as was their dietary intake of fruit and vegetables.   The authors argue that the disease causes increased loss of antioxidant, and that supplementation may help.

Tin-Maung Chit, Hia Kyi and Aye Thwin

Mothers' beliefs and attitudes towards child weight, child feeding and related practices in Myanmar

Mothers' attitudes were determined from interviews and categorised into three groups: those mothers with a well nourished child; those with a malnourished child, and those who had had a child who died of infectious disease.  The importance of basic health staff who provide advice is brought out.

The late Robert H. S. Robertson

The place of oats in Scottish nutrition

Report of a talk given in 1985 to the McCarrison Society Scottish Group, noting some points about the Scottish diet from Neolithic times to the late twentieth century.

Tom Stockdale

Letter: Indigestion and coeliac disease

More on selenium.

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