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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 17, Number 3, September 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 Subcommittee 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:

© The United Nations University, 1996
WHFNB-67/UNUP-930
ISSN 0379-5721


Contents

Editorial policy

Protein and amino acid requirements

Human protein requirements: A brief update

Human amino acid requirements: A re-evaluation

World essential amino acid supply with special attention to South-East Asia

Nutrition and behaviour

Rapid assessment procedures for the health and nutritional profile of adolescent girls: An exploratory study

Mothers' knowledge, understanding, and use of the bubble chart in a rural area of central Mexico

Effects of breakfast on classroom behaviour in rural Jamaican schoolchildren

Public health nutrition

Salt iodine variation within an extended Guatemalan community: The failure of intuitive assumptions

Can Africa meet the goal of eliminating iodine-deficiency disorders by the year 2000?

Vitamin A deficiency and the prevalence of xerophthalmia in southern Rwanda

Food science

Chemical composition and nutritive value of some wild-gathered tropical plant seeds

Books received

News and notes

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

Title of interest - Food Habits in Later Life: A Cross Cultural Study


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