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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 17, Number 2, June 1996

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Published by the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.

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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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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

Contents

Editorial policy

Special issue on cereal-based on oral rehydration therapy for diarrhoea

Introduction

Amylase-treated rice flour oral rehydration solution with enhanced energy density. I. In vitro studies of viscosity, osmolality, and stability

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Amylase-treated rice flour oral rehydration solution with enhanced energy density. II. In vivo studies of tolerance, energy intake, and rehydration efficacy in the initial treatment of dehydrated diarrhoeic children

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Materials and methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Amylase-treated rice flour oral rehydration solution with enhanced energy density. III. Trials with a home preparation

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Clinical trial with the 10% RB-ORS
• Perspectives and conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References

A programme to develop culturally and medically sound home fluid management of children with acute diarrhoea

• Abstract
• Acknowledgements
• References

Selection of culturally sound home fluid management of infantile diarrhoea in rural Mexico

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Clinical trial of a rice-powder oral rehydration beverage

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Promotion of oral rehydration therapy comparing a home-made rice-powder gruel and oral rehydration salts

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Summary and conclusion for the overall programme
• Acknowledgements
• References

Clinical nutrition

High-energy-density gruels in the treatment of hospitalized children suffering from mainly protein malnutrition in Zaire

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Dietary intake methodology

Evaluation of the 24-hour individual recall method in China

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Subjects and methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Food science

Production and use of raw potato flour in Mauritian traditional foods

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Materials and methods
• Results and discussion
• Conclusion
• References

Development of weaning foods based on malted, popped, and roller-dried barley and chickpea

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Materials and methods
• Results and discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References

Books received

News and notes

Note for contributors/Note à l'intention des auteurs/Nota para los posibles autores

Title of interest

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