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38th FNRI Seminar Series on July 5 & 6, 2012 at FNRI
Auditorium, DOST Compound, Bicutan, Taguig City
Theme: "Food & Nutrition R&D: Responding to Challenges of Today, Investing for a Healthier Tomorrow"
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| Turning the Corner in the Prevention of Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) in Highly Affected Areas in the Philippines
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Reduction and near-elimination of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in children has been an internationally-recognized objective since the World Summit for Children of 1990. In the Philippines, the main intervention is twice-yearly supplementation of high-dose vitamin A capsules (VAC) to young children given during the Garantisadong Pambata (GP) program. Despite these efforts, the prevalence of VAD among Filipino children, aged 6-71 months old has increased from 35.8 percent in 1993 to 38.0 percent in 1998 and to 40.1 percent in 2003. Results of the large-scale VAC supplementation program launched in the 1990s in the Philippines indicated improved plasma retinol (PR) levels up to 3 months after dosing. This study envisioned to contribute at enhancing the National Vitamin A Supplementation Program and the promotion of use of vitamin A-fortified oil (VAFO) in alleviating VAD. ABSTRACT >>>POSTER
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Comparison of Food Weighing and Food Recall Methods in Evaluating Food Consumption Among Households
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The Food and Nutrition Research Institute utilizes the one-day food weighing method in the conduct of household food consumption survey as this method is believed to provide accurate results and has been regarded as the gold standard. However, despite the accuracy of results, food weighing entails much cost and labor as it requires high degree of cooperation from both researcher and respondent. Thus, other dietary methods which can be used in the assessment of household food consumption need to be explored. ABSTRACT >>>POSTER
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| Analysis of Anthropometric Survey Data Using the New Child Growth Standards (CGS)
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In 1998, the Philippines adopted the WHO International Reference Standards (IRS). From then on, succeeding malnutrition statistics and updates of previous malnutrition figures of the country produced by FNRI, were recomputed parallel to the newly adopted standards. However, issues on racial differentiation arose since IRS/NCHS was primarily developed based on mostly formula-fed American babies. Hence in 2006, WHO launched a new Child Growth Standards for infants from birth to five years of age which was the result of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (WHO-MGRS) with breast- fed subjects coming from six different countries namely Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and USA. ABSTRACT >>>POSTER
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| Development, Printing and Distributon of Information Packages (TEKNOPAKS)
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The FNRI-DOST develops nutritious, safe and affordable food products and transfers these technologies to entrepreneurs for commercial production and distribution. Information about products and technologies developed by the FNRI-DOST need to be at hand among prospective entrepreneurs who will be interested to adopt these technologies. Information materials each containing brief description of the product, product requirement and market potential are useful tools in encouraging small- and medium- scale enterprises (SMEs) to adopt new food technologies. ABSTRACT >>>POSTER
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A Process Evaluation of School-based Intervention Program for Healthy Weight Management: Kineti-kids Program
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Kineti-Kids is a nutrition intervention program launched and nvisioned to be replicated in other schools without primacy to process valuation, to strengthen the perceived sustainability of weight management and ealthy lifestyle program. Objectives: To evaluate the different processes by which the Kineti-Kids Program components were carried out in four pilot schools in Manila. ABSTRACT>>>POSTER
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| Estimating the Promotion of Vitamin A Deficiency Among Children Aged 6 Months to 5 Years |
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Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is the leading cause of preventable blindness among children and increases the risk of disease and death from severe infections according to the World Health Organization. The 2003 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) was designed to provide estimates at the national level and there is a need for sub-national estimates for nutrition and health program planners and implementers.
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