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Editor: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Assistant Editor: Ms. Edwina B. Murray
Editorial Consultant: Ms. Sarah Jeffries
Senior Associate Editor Clinical and Human
Nutrition:
Dr. Cutberto Garza, Director and Professor, Division of
Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
Senior Associate Editor—Food Science and
Technology:
Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Instituto de Investigaciones, Universidad
del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Associate Editors:
Dr Abraham Besrat, Senior Academic Officer, United Nations
University, Tokyo, Japan Dr. Hernán Delgado, Director, Institute
of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala
City, Guatemala
Dr. Joseph Hautvast, Secretary General, IUNS, Department of Human
Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Dr. Peter Pellet, Professor, Department of Food Science and
Nutrition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., USA
Dr. Zewdie WoldeGebriel, Director, Ethiopian Nutrition Institute,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dr. Aree Valyasevi, Professor and Institute Consultant, Mahidol
University, Bangkok, Thailand
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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 Press in collaboration with the United Nations ACC Sub-committee on Nutrition.
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Nutritional aspects of palm oil
Editorial introduction
A critical review of the cholesterolaemic effects of palm oil
Cholesterolaemic effects of the saturated fatty acids of palm oil
Red palm oil to combat vitamin A deficiency in developing countries
Palm oil carotenoids
Antioxidant and biological activities of palm oil vitamin E
Food uses of palm oil in Japan
Food uses of palm oil in China
Palm oil use and compatibility in India
Palm oil use in North Africa and West Asia
Vitamin A and breast-feeding: A comparison of data from developed and developing countries
Manuals from the International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries
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