Nutritional Quality of Deep Fried Street-Vended Foods: A Public Health Concern

2009 ◽  
pp. 267-273
Author(s):  
Ihab Tewfik ◽  
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Hanaa Ismail ◽  
Sundus Tewfik ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern

scholarly journals QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF BREAKFAST OF CHILDREN AGED 2.0 TO 12.9 YEARS IN INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heryudarini Harahap ◽  
Yekti Widodo ◽  
Sandjaja Sandjaja ◽  
Ilse Khouw ◽  
Paul Deurenberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Breakfast Consumption ◽  
Nutrition Study ◽  
Parent Characteristics ◽  
Good Food

Doing breakfast among children is a public health concern as seen at one of the messages in ‘Indonesian balanced nutrition which state ‘breakfast every day’. The aim of this analysis is to determine the quantity and quality of Indonesian children’s breakfast based on children and parent characteristics, as well as nutritional status. Subjects were 2629 children, aged 2.0–12.9 years, included in the Southeast Asian Nutrition Study. The amount of the breakfast is categorized as very inadequate if <15 percent; inadequate if 15 to < 25 percent; or adequate if ≥ 25 percent of the Indonesian RDA. The quality of breakfast was categorized as ‘not good’, if the breakfast skips one or more components of energy, protein and/or vitamins/minerals, or ‘good’ if the breakfast provides energy, protein and vitamins/minerals. The results indicated that on average only 31.6 percent of the children were categorized as having adequate breakfast consumption and 21.6 percent having good quality breakfast. Only 9.2 percent of children have adequate and good quality breakfast. Adequacy of breakfast differed between children, parent characteristics, and nutritional status, but only age has an association with the quality of breakfast (p<0.05). The nutrition education about good breakfast should be included as the part of curriculum, and school canteens provided a good food, as well as a campaign about Indonesian balanced nutrition slogan number 1 ‘have breakfast every day’ should be socialized.

scholarly journals Bacteriological Assessment of Fast Foods Sold at Gidan-Kwanu and Bosso Campuses of Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Yohanna Audu ◽  
Yohanna Audu ◽  
Mohammed Sani Sambo ◽  
Samaila James ◽  
Caleb Yakubu Maina
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Bacterial Contamination ◽  
Food Samples ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Plate Method ◽  
Fast Foods ◽  
Gram Staining ◽  
University Of Technology

The bacteriological quality of snacks (meat pie and egg row) collected from different vendors at two different sells points each at Gidan-Kwanu and Bosso campuses of  Federal University of Technology Minna was carried out in order to ascertain their safety. A total of fourty (40) snacks  were screened using standard pour plate method while gram staining and biochemical test were carried out for the identification of various isolates. The  samples had varying degree of  bacterial contamination ranging from 2.0 x 102 - 1.4 x 103 cfu/g. The bacteria isolates found  included Bacillus subtilis 29 (34.12%) in meat pie and 11 (22.45%) in egg roll; Staphylococcus aureus 16 (18.82%) in meat pie and 11 (22.45%) in egg roll; Klebsiella 19 (22.35%) in meat pie and 11 (22.45%) in egg roll; Escherichia coli 17 (20.00%) in meat pie and 13 (26.53%) in egg roll; Pseudomonas aeruginosa 4 (4.71%) in meat pie and 2 (4.08%) in egg roll and Proteus 1 (2.04%) in egg row and no growth of  proteus was recorded in meat pie. The high bacteria count and diversity of  bacteria isolate from the food samples screened is of public health concern. The study underscores the need for intervention from bodies charged with the responsibility of maintaining public health to prevent potential out brake of disease among consumers of these food products.

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption: the ESAC programme

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Antimicrobial Consumption ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Major Public Health Concern

Resistance to antimicrobials has become a major public health concern, and it has been shown that there is a relationship, albeit complex, between antimicrobial resistance and consumption

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