VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
Micronutrient (vitamin, minerals and trace elements) involved in almost metabolism processes of the body: enzyme activities, reproduction and growth of the cellule. Thus directly or indirectly they have important roles in regulating the growth of the human body.
Objectives: To estimate child overweight prevalence among primary school students in Da Nang. Associated factors with child overweight, and caregivers’ knowledge were also explored. Method: In the first stage, 4500 primary school students were measured body weight and height to calculate BMI.
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of obesity the elderly and related disorders: hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia. Design: Cross-sectional community survey in Phuong Mai-Ha Noi, Phu Xuan-Hue, Hoa Long-Ba Ria-Vung Tau, in 2000-2001. Subjects: 1277 Persons ≥ 60 years old.
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of polydextrose supplementation on improving overweight-obesity and lipidemia disorder. Methods: a community-based control randomized trial in 108 military officers, one group used 20g of Vitan1 (20g polydextrose) per day and the other used placebo.
Nowadays, food poisoning is increasing rapidly all over the country, seriously affecting public health and largely damaging the economy. Statistics show that most of large cases of food poisoning in school and industrial kitchen were due to the foods, which were contaminated by pathogenic bacteria.
Isomalt là loại đường có chỉ số đường huyết và năng lượng thấp (2Kcal/g), vì vậy không những giúp kiểm soát đường huyết ở người có rối loạn dung nạp, đái tháo đường mà còn có lợi cho người thừa cân- béo phì.
Food consumption has been long found being closely related to community health. By comparing the food consumption patterns in Vietnam during the xx century (1940 - 2000) it is shown that there was no change in characteristics of Vietnamese food consumption pattern through different periods up to 1990.
Nowadays, the rate of malnutrition is still high in Vietnam. It is difficult for all the practitioners in treating and rehabilitating these patients because there are a member of many combined causal factors such as lack of food intake, unappropriate maternal nutrition knowledge and diseases.
Objective: to evaluate the intake of antioxidants, namely vitamin E, beta-caroten and lycopene in the diets of Vietnamese adults in 4 geographic regions. The data will be used for further investtigation of the relationship between protective factors and lipid metabolism status.
Prevalence of obesity is increasing in primary school children in big cities. Obesity poses a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, gall-bladder diseases, cancers, which affect people’s health and life-expectancy.
Giáo dục sức khỏe đặc biệt là tuyên truyền giáo dục cho các bà mẹ về kiến thức và thực hành đúng trong nuôi dưỡng trẻ bằng sữa mẹ như là Nuôi con bằng sữa mẹ hoàn toàn trong 6 tháng đầu. Huấn luyện đào tạo cán bộ y tế về những kiến thức và kỹ năng cần thiết để giúp đỡ bà mẹ cho con bú.Đưa chương trình giảng dạy NCBSM vào các trường học.
Aims: To investigate the nutritional status of outpatients with type 2 diabetes at Quang Xuong District General Hospital, Thanh Hoa in 2022. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 400 outpatients. Each subject's weight, height, waist and hip circumference was measured; waist to hip ratio and body mass index (BMI) were calculated.
The study aims to determine antibacterial effects of several herbal plants on the growth and toxin production of S.aureus. Antibacterial activity of four herbal plants: Houttuynia cordata, Mentha species, Artemisia vulgaris car.indica and Allium sativum, was exam-ined against a reference strain (S.aureus ATCC 25923) using a novel microtiter plate method.
The prevalence of underweight among children, who come for health examine and treatment in Hue hospital 2005 was 20.9%, among which the higher was mild degree (16.6%) and among male higher than female. Underweight of children 36-48 months of age accounted for 28.2%.
In the last decade, the socio-economic has been rapidly developing in Ho Chi Minh city, one of the biggest cities in Vietnam. Life has become more convenient and better quality. These develops has contributes in the changes of lifestyle, eating habits thus relulting in alterations in disease pattern of people in Ho Chi Minh City.
Nowadays, food hygiene and safety are one of the hottest public issues and become a big con cern for the relevant authorities and the community. Unsafe and unhygienic food seriously harm the public health and cause a big loss for the economy of every country. Unsafe food is the trad ing barrier in the WTO integration period .
A cross-sectional analytic study was conducted aimed to assess actual rate of overweight-obesity among rural adults aged 25-64 and to investigate factors related to overweight-obesity. The results showed that: The rate of to overweight-obesity among rural Bac Giang, Bac Ninh and Quang Ninh adults aged 25-64 was 13.9% in average, 15.6% in men and 12.0% in women.
Recently the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea, announced the “Dietary Guidelines for Korean Adults (DGKA),” which includes ten Dietary Goals, six Dietary Guidelines, and twenty-three Action Guidelines. DGKA are developed as the revision of the 2003 Dietary Guidelines for Koreans, targeting adult population.
Support to improve nutritional status and health through measures to ensure water safety is the involvement of communities in three rural communes of Vietnam (Swan Project) conducted by the Institute of Nutrition and Institute International Life Science Center Japan to enhance health (ILSI Japan CHP), with funding support from the Organization Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) under development partners program (JPP).
The activities of nutrition and nutrition research in the future will continue to focus on tackling malnutrition in our country, also understanding and monitoring of nutritional problems emerging, first of overweight, obesity.
A cross sectional study in 992 high-ranking officers of Antiaircraft- Air Force Arm in September 2007 showed that: The rate of overweight and obesity was 55.8%. The rate of overweight-obesity of men was higher than women. Waist/ Hip ratio (WHR) > 0.90 of men was 34.3%, (WHR) > 0.85 of women was 30.7%.
Providing good care pregnant women for a better pregnant outcome in an early preventive strategy in heath and nutrition care nowadays in many countries.
Aims: To describe actual food intake of women aged 40-65 years with BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2 in Hanoi, 2016. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on women aged 40-65 years with BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2 in Hanoi, 2016. Results: The average age was approximately 52 years old with BMI= 25.6±3.8 kg/m2. The dietary energy level of the study subjects was 1628 (1589,2; 1705,5) kcal /person/day.
Objectives: To assess the effects of zinc supplementation on malnourished children with normal serum zinc concentration. Method: A randomized, controlled, single-blinded clinical trial.