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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 11, Number 3, September 1989

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Published by the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Prevention and control of vitamin-A deficiency

Introduction: Vitamin-A deficiency and child health and survival
Research priorities for investigation of the influence of vitamin-A supplementation on morbidity
Vitamin A, immunocompetence, and infection
Effects of vitamin-A status on hamster tracheal epithelium in viva in vitro
Research priorities and strategies for investigation of the influence of vitamin-A supplementation on morbidity
Ethical issues related to nutrition field trials
Commentary: Underpinning vitamin-A deficiency prevention and control programmes

Food and nutrition policy

Breast milk the life saver: Observations from recent studies
Nutritional evaluation of an agricultural development project in southern Sri Lanka

Workshop reports

Functional effects of iron deficiency: Cognition*
Fostering nutrition among countries.

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