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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 8, Number 3, September 1986


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The Food and Nutrition Bulletin incorporates and continues the PAG Bulletin of the former Protein-Calorie Advisory Group of the United Nations System and is published quarterly by the United Nations University in collaboration with the United Nations ACC Sub committee on Nutrition. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the United Nations University or the UN ACC Sub-committee on Nutrition.

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(c) The United Nations University, 1986
WHFNB-31/UNUP-606
ISSN 0379-5721
ISBN 92-808-0606-8

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Contents

Nutrition and health

Could improvements in child survival mask improvements in anthropometric indicators in nutrition programme evaluations?
Socio-economic determinants of child nutritional status: boys versus girls
Mortality levels and patterns in the oral therapy extension programme areas of the Bangladesh rural advancement committee
Nutritional aspects of obesity and diabetes and their relation to cardio vascular

Food science

Faba beans (Vicia faba L.) and their role in the human diet

Food and nutrition policy

The impact of changing agricultural systems on the nutritional status of farm
Small-scale integrated agricultural production family farm
Preliminary study of income and nutritional status indicators in two Ethiopian communities
Uses and constraints of schoolchildren's height data for planning purposes: national experiences
The demand for higher-status food and nutrition in rural India: the experience of Matar Taluka
Differential infant and child mortality rates in Bangladesh
Oral rehydration therapy-the need for a proper perspective

News and notes

Programme on food, nutrition, biotechnology, and poverty


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