UNU Programme on Food and Nutrition for Human and Social Development

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Editor: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw Assistant Editor: Ms. Edwina B. Murray Editorial Consultant: Ms. Sarah Jeffries

Associate Editors: Dr. Hernán Delgado, Director, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 1, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Dr. Peter Pellet, Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Chenoweth Laboratories, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
Dr. Aree Valyasevi. Professor and Institute Consultant, Mahidol University at Salaya, Nakorn Chaisri, Nakorn Pathom 73170, Thailand

Programme Co-ordinating Office

Harvard Center for Population Studies 9 Bow St., Cambridge, MA 02138. USA Telephone: (617) 495-0417. Fax: (617) 495-5418 Telex: 92 1496. E-Mail: UNUCPO@HARVADA.BITNET Programme Director: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw Associate Programme Director: Dr. Guillermo Herrera Programme Assistant: Ms. Edwina B. Murray Secretary: Ms. Sandy Lee

At the UNU Centre, Tokyo:

Training and Fellowship Officer: Dr. Abraham Besrat

Associated institutions

CENTRAL FOOD TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CFTRI). Mysore 570013, India. Tel. 22298. Cable: UNVERCENT MYSORE. Telex: 0846-241 FTRI IN Co-ordinator: Dr. B. L. Amla

DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION AND FOOD SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF GHANA (DNFS). P.O. Box 134, Legon, Ghana. Cable: UNIVERSITY LEGON. Co-ordinator: Dr. R. Orraca-Tetteh

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF IFE. Ile-lfe, Nigeria. Tel. 2290 to 2299. Co-ordinator: Dr. J. O. Adejuwon

INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY (IATA). Jaime Roig I 1, Valencia 10, Spain. Tel. 36908-00. Cable: IATA Valencia 10, Spain. Co-ordinator: Dr. Salvador Barber

INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION, MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY (INMU). Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama VI Road. Bangkok 4, Thailand. Tel. 282-6435. Coordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi

INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY (INTA). University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Tel.

214105, 214030. Cable: INTA CHILE. Co-ordinator: Dr. José Riumallo

INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION OF CENTRAL AMERICAN AND PANAMA (INCAP). Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Tel. 43762. Cable: INCAP GUATEMALA. Co-ordinator: Dr. Hernán Delgado

THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD, NUTRITION, AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME. Harvard Center for Population Studies, 9 Bow St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Tel. (617) 495-0417. Fax: (617) 496-5418. Telex: 92 1496. E-Mail: UNUCPO@HARVADA.BITNET Co-ordinator: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw

KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAIST). P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Tel. (967) 8801. Cable: KISTROK. Telex: KISTROK K 27380. Co-ordinator: Dr. Tai-Wan Kwon

LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE (LSHTM). Keppel Street (Gower Street), London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel. 01-636 8636. Co-ordinator: Dr. Philip Payne

NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NFRI). 2-1-2 Kannondai, Yatabe-machi, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki-ken 300-21, Japan. Tel. 02875-6-8011. Co-ordinator: Dr. Keiji Umeda

NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION INSTITUTE (NINI). Lawickse Allee 11, P.O. Box 88, 6700 AB, Waegningen, Netherlands. Tel. (08370) 19040. Co-ordinator: Dr. Joseph Hautvast

THE NUTRITION CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES (NCP). Nutrition Center of the Philippines Bldg., South Super Highway, Nichols Interchange, Makati, Metro Manila 3116, Philippines. Tel. 85-30-71 to -79. Cable: NUTRICEN MANILA. Coordinator: Dr. Mercedes de Solon.

UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (UNK). Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Kabete Campus, P.O. Box 41670. Nairobi, Kenya. Co-ordinator: Dr. A. A. Kielmann

UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO (USP). School of Public Health, Avenida Dr. Arnaldo, 715. Sao Paulo. S.P., Brazil. Coordinator: Dr. Ruy Laurenti

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES (UWI). St. Augustine Campus: Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Crop Science, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Tel. 662-7171. Cable: STOMATA PORT OF SPAIN. Resident Co-ordinator: Dr. Lloyd Rankine. Mona Campus: Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Tel. 927-6661. Cable: UNIVERS JAMAICA. Contact: Dr. Michael Golden

Other co-operating organizations

Through the British Council:

Agricultural Research Council, Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK

Department of Food Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK (Dr. Harry Nursten)

Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Tropical Development and Research Institute (TDRI), London, UK

Through CFTRI:

National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India (Dr. M. Mohanram)

Through IATA:

Instituto de Nutrición, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicos de España, Madrid, Spain (Dr. Gregorio Varela)

Through IFNP:

Department of Anthropology, Nutrition, and Agriculture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., USA (Dr. Billie R. DeWalt)

Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., USA (Dr. Peter Pellet)

Department of Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA (Dr. M. C. Nesheim)

Departments of Nutrition and Medical Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., USA (Dr. Gretel Pelto)

School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA (Dr. Benjamin Caballero)

School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., USA (Dr. Snehendu B. Kar)

Tufts University School of Nutrition, Medford, Mass. (Dr. Stanley N. Gershoff), and Division of Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA (Dr. Gerald T. Keusch)

Through INCAP:

Central American Institute of Corporation Management (INCAE), Costa Rica (Dr. John C. Ickis)

Instituto Centroamericano de Investigación y Tecnologia Industrial (ICAITI), Guatemala City, Guatemala (Dr. Carlos Rolz)

Through KAIST:

Korea University, Food Research Center, College of Agriculture, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Dr. Cherl-Ho Lee)

Korea University, Korea Nutrition Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Dr. Jin Soon Ju)

Through NCP:

Food and Nutrition Research Institute, Manila, Philippines

University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Philippines (Dr. Rodolfo Florentino)

Through NFRI:

Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Through NINI:

Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands (Dr. P. Middelburg)

Department of Tropical Nutrition, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Prof. J. Kusin)

Division for Nutrition and Food Research, TNO, Zeist, Netherlands (Prof. B. Krol)

Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK (Dr. David Southgate)

International Course in Food Science and Nutrition (ICFSN), Wageningen, Netherlands (Dr. M. L. J. Mertens)

Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFIC), The Hague, Netherlands (Dr. C. W. Klugkist)

Through USP:

State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas, Brazil

University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Prêto. Brazil (Dr. José Dutra de Oliveira)

Through UWI:

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), Kingston, Jamaica (Dr. A. W. Patterson)

Direct co-operative relationship:

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C., USA (Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen)

International scientific unions:

International Union of Food Science and Technology (lUFoST)

International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS)

The United Nations system:

The UNU Programme on Food and Nutrition for Human and Social Development co-operates with the appropriate units or divisions of the following organizations with which the University has memoranda of understanding:

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

World Food Programme (WFP)

World Health Organization (WHO)

The University is represented on the Sub-committee on Nutrition (SCN) of the United Nations Administrative Committee on Co-ordination.

Research networks

Chronic energy deficiency

International Dietary Energy Consultative Group (IDECG). Secretariat: Nestlé Foundation, 4 Place de la Gare, Lausanne, Switzerland. Executive Secretary: Dr. Beat Schürch. Tel. 021-20 33 51. Telex: 454299 TXC CH. Fax: (Nestlé Foundation) 41 2 120 7524. Executive committee: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Chairman; Dr. Joseph Hautvast, Dr. Beat Schürch

Division of Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition, Calle Vasco de Quiroga No. 15 Col. y Deleg. Tlalpan, 14000 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Principal investigator: Dr. Héctor Bourges

Ethiopian Nutrition Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Principal investigator: Dr. Teshome Demeke

Institute of Health, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, 10 Tian Tan Xili, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Chen Xue-cun

Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigator: Dr. José Riumallo

National Institute of Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, Rome, Italy. Principal investigator: Dr. Anna Ferro-Luzzi

Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Komplek GIZI, Jalan Semboja, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator: Dr. Darwin Karyadi

Nutrition Research Centre, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore 5ó0 034, India. Principal investigator: Dr. Prakash S. Shetty

Universidad del Valle, Departamento de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Apartado Aéreo 2188, Cali, Colombia. Principal investigator: Dr. Julio C. Reina

University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Principal investigator: Dr. Sally McGregor

Iron-deficiency anaemia

Beijing Medical College-UNICEF, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Beijing. China. Principal investigator: Dr. Shiu-yun Liu

Institute of Nutrition. Mahidol University (INMU), Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi

Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigator: Dr. Tomas Walter

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Principal investigator: Dr. Benjamín Torún

Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Principal investigator: Dr. Ratko Buzina.

National Institute of Hygiene, Yungan Hsi-lee, Chien Kuo Men-wai, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Chen-ting Chin

National Research Centre, National Academy of Sciences, Cairo, Egypt. Principal investigator: Dr. Sohair Salem

National Institute of Nutrition, Cairo, Egypt. Principal investigator: Dr. Mohammed A. Hussein

Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Komplek GIZI, Jalan Semboja, Bogor. Indonesia. Principal investigator: Dr. Darwin Karyadi

Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Apartado 1827, Caracas, Venezuela. Principle investigator: Dr. Miguel Layrisse

Nutrition and primary health care

Baluchistan Integrated Programme Area Directorate. Baluchistan, Pakistan. Co-investigators: Farhat Sultana and Pamela Hunte

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI). P.O. Box 140, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Principal investigator: Dr. Renee Dankerlin

Centre for Social Research and Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Box 278, Zomba, Malawi. Principal investigator: Dr. Christine Lamba

International Foster Parents Plan, Inc.. 804 Quaker Lane, East Greenwich, R.l., USA. Dr. Victor Lara

Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Yongyout Kachonpadunkitti

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) (for Central America), P.O. Box 1188, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Principal investigator: Lic. Elena Hurtado

Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnologia de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigator: Dr. Maria de la Luz Alvarez

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Management Science, P.O. Box 131. Cheongryang, Seoul, Korea. Principal investigator: Dr. Kong-Kyun Ro

Save the Children Fund, CPO Box 992, Kathmandu, Nepal. Principal investigator: Dr. Vijaya L. Shrestha

Society for Economic and Social Studies, B- I, 2nd Floor LSC, J Block, Saket, New Delhi 110 017, India. Principal investigator: Dr. D. Raghunandan

UNICEF-Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Haiti. Principal investigator: Dr. Maria D. Alvarez

UNICEF: USA, Evaluation Office, 3 United Nations Plaza. New York, NY 10017, USA. Dr. Susi Kessler

UN/FAO World Food Programme, Room F, 747 Via delle Terme di Caracalla. 00100 Rome, Italy. Dr. Jens H. Schulthes, Senior Programme Officer, Project Management Division

Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. Professors Marfa E. Romero and Adela Morales de Look

University of Ife, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Principal investigator: Dr. Simi Afonia

University of Lubumbashi, Zaire (Shaba Province). Principal investigator: Ngakwey Ndolamb

University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, Nairobi, Kenya. Principal investigator: Dr. David O. Nyamwaya

World Bank, 1818 H St., NW, Washington, D.C., USA. Dr. Michael Cernea, Sociology Advisor

Brazil: Dra. Clarice Mota, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Largo de Sao Francisco, 1/4 Andar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tel. (021) 239-1407

Brazil: Maria Cecilia de Sousa Minayo, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz-Brasil. Rua General Cristovão Barcelo, 24/802 Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CEP: 22251. Tel. (021) 2900387

Ecuador: Jasmina Estupinan, Psiconsult, Apdo. Postal 148C, Batan 124 y Eloy Alfaro, Quito, Ecuador

Somalia: Asha Mohamud, Deputy Director, FH/FP Unit, Ministry of Health, P.O. Box 1750, Mogadisho, Somalia. Tel. 81977

International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS)

Secretariat: Bldg. N52-457, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02139, USA. Tel. (617) 253-8004. Telex: 650 2688345. Fax: ( + 1 overseas) (617) 491-6266

Project Co-ordinator: Dr. John Klensin

Executive Committee: Dr. Vernon Young, Chairman; Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Vice-Chairman

Committee on Users and Needs: Dr. Gaurth Hansen, Chairman

Committee on Data Quality: Dr. David Southgate, Chairman

Committee on Terminology and Nomenclature: Dr. Stewart Truswell, Chairman

Committee on Information Systems: Dr. John Klensin, Chairman

Regional liaison groups:

AFROFOODS. Co-ordinator: Mr. Claver R. Temalilwa, Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

ASIAFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

EUROFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Clive West, Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands

LATINFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala

MENAFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Mohamed Amr Hussein, Director, Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt

NOAFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Alex Campbell. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

NORDICFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Ake Bruce, Swedish National Food Administration, Uppsala, Sweden

OCEANIAFOODS. Co-ordinator: Dr. Ruth English, Department of Community Services and Health, Canberra, Australia