VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
Many kinds of rice, cassava and sweet potatoes spirits produced by Traditional Fermentation Methods have been carried out for a long time in Vietnam. This study aimed to evaluate some traditional methods and find the way to improve the quality of sweet potatoes spirits and reduce the harmful by- products such as Aldehydes, Methanol, Esters, etc. by choosing the best traditional yeast cakes, fermentation conditions and duration of maturation of distilled Spirits following the Vietnamese standards for spirits with higher content of alcohol.
The progress of malnutrition reduction and the Zscores W/A, Zscores H/A and Zscores W/H was examined through national surveys on malnutrition among children under 5 years old from 1990 to 2004. Objective: To present the progress of child malnutrition in order to classify changes and to set up suitable outcome for the plan of child malnutrition control.
Across- sectional study was done in 2005 to identify hypertension prevalence in adults living in Daklak province. Total of 931 adults aged from 25 years and over, without other chronic diseases in 30 communes were chosen and checked-up. The results showed that the crude hypertension prevalence in Daklak province was 17.5%.
Objective: This study was to identify the prevalence of malnutrition in patients admitted to gastroenterology and endocrinology ward in Bach mai hospital. Methods: 308 patients admitted to a gastroenterology and endocrinology ward were enrolled in the investigation.
The assessment of food safety and sanitary conditions at 20 kitchens of half day boarding primary schools in Dong Da, Hanoi was carried out from February to August, 2007. The results indicated that: 50% of kitchens did not meet with the sanitary conditions and water supply requirements of the Ministry of Health.
A cross-sectional study in 11 sub-districts of Thanh Hoa city was conducted during 2006-2007 with 240 ready-to-eat food samples, 30 cooking utensil samples, 40 cooker hand samples, and 310 KAP interviews to food vendors. Results revealed that the contamination rate of street foods and cooking utensils was upto 57.74%.
The study aimed to provide baseline information for the Vietnam – Netherlands nutrition project. The survey was conducted in July and August 2006 in 5 provinces of Nam Dinh, Bac Giang, Quang Tri, Dak Lak and Kien Giang (2 districts of each province and 2 to 3 communes in each district).
These are quantitative findings of a final evaluation of a Viet Nam International Counterpart project, namely “For the Health of Mothers and Children”, which was designed as an effort to find out possible interventions to improve health and nutrition status among mothers and children under 5 year old in disadvantaged areas of Vietnam.
This study aims to investigate the presence of chronic energy deficiency and overweight of adults in one commune of the Red river delta and their dietary intake. Results indicate that there is the coexistence of CED and overweight of adults in this commune with respective prevalence of 22.2% and 16.0%.
This study was done to develop Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) for assessing calcium intake in Vietnamese people based on data of the National Nutrition Survey in 2000. From the data, a total of 36 calcium- riched food items were selected for the FFQ by ranking food items according to their contribution to the population intake of nutrients.
Effects of washing and cooking methods on lost levels of zinc & iron in cooking rice have been investigated in 10 families, belonging to 6 ethnics (San chi, San diu, Nung, Tay, Hoa, Kinh), using 5 kinds of cooking pant/pots (cast iron, aluminum pan (Hai phong), soil pot, copper pot, and electric cooker).
1. Reduce malnutrition among children is low whistle determinants. 2. Tend to increase the growth in Vietnam.
From this study, dried carrot powder has been naturally produced (without chemical processing), in which the content of carotene is 98.2mg, of fiber is 750 mg and of saccharoze is 17 g in 100 g of carrot pow-der. The product has shelf- life of 4 months with good perceptible qualities (the red color of carrot, nat-ural flavour, no pungent taste) and it passes the regulation on food safety of the Ministry of Health.
The study aimed to assess nutritional status of children under 5 and knowledge and practices on child feeding and care of mothers with children under 5 in Phu Linh commune. This is a cross-sectional de scriptive survey in a selected commune with representative sample of mothers with children under 2 and children under 5.
Though food security is observed nationalwide, there is still a risk of food shortageat households in some disadvantaged areas of Vietnam. The risk has been predicted and reported increases as a consequences of climate changes and financial crisis globally.
A cross-sectional study with the sample size of 11,927 children and adults, who visited the Nutrition Counseling Center during the period 2004 – 2005, gave the following results: Characteristics of children's morbidity: The majority of children visted the center were from 6 to 24 months old, accounted for 52.3%, in which boys was 53.3%, higher than girls, 46.5%.
The aim of this research is to study the antimutagenic activity of sticky rice cooked with various fruits, vegetables and legumes. Fruits and vegetables rich in carotenoids including ivy gourd leaves, the fruit from Momordica cochinchinensis and pumpkin, two kind of legumes mungbean and black bean E and sticky rice colored by being cooked with these fruits, vegetables and legumes were sequentially extracted with n-hexane and 80% ethanol.
The study was conducted on 1,657 women from 40 to 65 years old in 6 wards and communes in 3 areas of Thai Binh province. These women are measured humerus and tibia density by Osteoporosis ultrasound scan ALOKA (Japan) and were evaluated osteophenia rate. The results of the study have shown that: In radius: Average T-score: is -1.19±1.7, the rates of osteophenia and osterporosis are 29.9% and 20.8%, respectively.
Objectives: To assess nutritional status of hospitalized patients with acute illness from 2 – 60 months of age in The Pediatric Hospital Number One, Ho Chi Minh City, and to identify factors associated to malnutrition in this population group. Design: A cross sectional study.
The Vietnam – Netherlands Nutrition project implemented in the 10 disadvantaged provinces in Vietnam aims for capacity building of nutrition staff at all levels. This specific study is part of the final evaluation of the project to evaluate the project’s results in improving capacity at grass-root level.
Nutrition plays a key role in the whole process of human growth and development. In the fetal period, the fetus develops from an egg cell to 2x1012 cells at delivery and 30 times more when the body is totally mature.
The progress of malnutrition reduction and the Z-scores W/A, Z-scores H/A and Z-scores W/1-I were examined through national surveys on malnutrition among children under 5 years old from 1990 to 2004 in order to classify changes and to set up suitable outcome for the plan of child malnutrition control.
The study was conducted in Social Protection and Support Centers of 15 Northern provinces aiming at describing the current nutritional situation of the children and some risk factors. Methods: Nutritional status of the children was assessed by anthropometric indicators and the centers’ care givers and cooks were interviewed.
A cross -sectional study was conducted in 1217 subjects in Hai Duong city to determine the rate of overweight/ obesity and blood lipid disorders among overweight/ obesity targets ageds 30-59. The subjects with BMI ≥ 25 voluntarily participated in the study. Their total cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL-C, LDL-C were identified to determine the rate of blood lipid disorders in obese people.