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Annotation: This book discusses nutrition for children in the Pacific Islands. It is written in a clear, easy-to-understand manner and contains black and white photographs and illustrations. It covers topics such as food and the body; protein for bodybuilding and repair; carbohydrates, fats, and oils for energy and warmth; vitamins and minerals for protection from disease; breastfeeding and bottle feeding; and much more. The book includes four appendices that include the meanings of some of the words used in the book, nutritive values of some Pacific Island foods, recommended dietary allowances, and photo food charts labeled with the words for the items pictured in several local languages. Languages of the charts include English, Ponapean, Kosraean, Trukese, Marshallese, Yapese-Ulithian, and Palauan. The book concludes with an index.

Keywords: Asian language materials, Bottle feeding, Breastfeeding, Carbohydrates, Child health, Child nutrition, Fats, Food, Infant health, Infant nutrition, Minerals, Nutrition, Pacific Islands, Protein, Vitamins

Annotation: This workshop discussed three major programs (in Guatemala, Montreal, and Taiwan) for supplementing the diets of pregnant women with calories and protein. It also examined a metabolic balance study of pregnant adolescents with an emphasis on protein. Finally, studies using formula dietary supplements in New York, Omaha, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. were considered. The goals of the workshop were to focus attention on problems, gaps, and omissions in nutrition services for pregnant women; to assemble and evaluate current data on the dietary needs of pregnant women; and to prepare an interim report on the value of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy, with emphasis on calories and protein. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Service]

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Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, California, Calories, District of Columbia, Food supplements, Guatemala, Metabolism, Montreal, Nebraska, New York, Nutrition services, Pregnant women, Protein, Taiwan

Annotation: This manual discusses preventing malnutrition among preschool children by providing protein-rich weaning food when breastfeeding is no longer possible. It provides information on normal growth and development during the first five years, nutritional needs of children, major causes of morbidity and mortality in children during the first five years, diseases, nutritional value of food, food processing and its effect on nutrients, nutritional education, supplementary foods, planning an infant feeding program, and recipes. It ends with three appendices, including a glossary, and a list of recommended reading.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Developing countries, Guidelines, Infant feeding, Infant nutrition, MCH programs, Manuals, Prevention programs, Proteins, Weaning

Annotation: This report presents the collective views of an international group of experts on food fortification programs within the context of overall national food and nutrition policies and protein-calorie malnutrition, one of the most serious public health problems confronting the developing countries.The report also includes a discussion of future research and action. Some information is presented in tables throughout the report.

Contact: World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia, Geneva, Switzerland , Telephone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11 Fax: (+ 41 22) 791 3111 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.who.int/en Available from the website.

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Keywords: Nutrition policy, Calories, Developing countries, Food, International health, Nutrition, Nutrition disorders, Protein

Annotation: This report revises a 1957 report on protein requirements and formulates recommendations for the requirements of population groups. It discusses the background of the problem, methods of approach in estimating protein requirements, reference protein requirements, amino acid requirements and amino acid patterns, factors affecting the protein values of food, practical applications, and further research. Tables provide information on evaluating the protein intake of population groups and planning diets and food supplies. It ends with annexes providing a glossary of terms, method of calculating proteins, and protein in current food supplies of selected countries.

Contact: World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia, Geneva, Switzerland , Telephone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11 Fax: (+ 41 22) 791 3111 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.who.int/en Available from the website.

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Keywords: Dietary assessment, Dietary guidelines, Health, Proteins, World Health Organization

Annotation: This report presents a consensus approach to therapeutic nutrition, with an emphasis on recovery from acute catabolic episodes that produce drastic metabolic derangement of normal physiological processes. The report includes the following sections: (1) functions of components of diet in metabolism, (2) non-dietary factors affecting metabolism, (3) the endocrine glands and metabolism, (4) evaluation of nutritional status, (5) consequences of nutritional deficiency, (6) the relation of protein disequilibrium to disease, (7) nutritional requirements of the sick, injured, and convalescent, (8) therapeutic nutrition for specified conditions, (9) the treatment of starvation and severe undernutrition, (10) problems of nutrition under emergency disaster situations, (11) the problem of prophylaxis against emergency nutritional deficiency: minimal allowances and rationing, (12) summary and conclusions, and (13) references.

Keywords: Diet, Disasters, Emergencies, Endocrine diseases, Metabolism, Nutrition, Nutritional requirements, Nutritional status, Proteins, Resource allocation, Starvation