Culture, Environment, and Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency (INFDC, 1997, 208 p.)

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Contributing authors

Part I. Vitamin A in food and diets

1. Vitamin A and food: The current situation

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Overview: What this book is about

The Vitamin A situation

Proposed solutions to the problem

Focused ethnography to understand local culture and environment for Vitamin A programs

The structure of this book

2. The complexities of understanding Vitamin A in food and diets: The problem

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Introduction

Overview of natural Food sources of Vitamin A

Vitamin A food composition data

Effect of food processing on Vitamin A

Food composition tables for Vitamin A

Assessment of dietary Vitamin A intake

Dietary Vitamin A intake patterns

Other dietary and health factors influencing Vitamin A status

Programs that improve intake of Vitamin A-rich food

Summary

Part II. Creating the protocol

3. Theory and process: The methods

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The International Union of Nutritional Sciences, committee on nutrition and anthropology

Theory of the methodological approach

Overview of methods of data-collection described in the protocol manual

Testing the protocol

Comment

Part III. Assessing natural food sources of Vitamin A in the community

4. The Philippines: The Aetas Canawan during wet and dry seasons

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The Vitamin A problem in the Philippines

The Aetas of Canawan, Morong

The Aeta's way of life

Concepts of food and deficiency

Factors affecting food intake

A typical meal

Suggested dietary modifications

Untitled

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Background discussion of Niger

Food sources of Vitamin A

Meal patterns and food utilization

Cultural beliefs about Vitamin A-rich foods

Vitamin A deficiency

Summary and recommendations

6. China: The people of Doumen Village, Kai Feng Municipality, Henan Province

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Background and introduction

Eating Vitamin A-rich vegetable food

Cultural beliefs regarding key foods

Food patterns

Food preparation

Nightblindness

7. Peru: The rural community of Chamis and the urban suburb of San Vicente in Cajamarca

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Introduction

Overview of the location

Food sources of Vitamin A

Principal differences between Chamis and San Vicente

Family and individual food patterns

Feeding patterns by age gender

Vitamin A-rich food patterns

Cultural beliefs

Vitamin A and health

Summary and conclusions

Policy recommendations

Recommendations for research

8. India: The rural community of Sheriguda in Andhra Pradesh

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Introduction

Team members and task

Current status of the problem

Study population

Community food sources

Food consumption pattern

Cultural/ecological pattern

Summary and policy strategies

Part IV. Understanding Vitamin A deficieny in the community

9. The contexts of culture, environment, and food

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Overview

Overall performance of the protocol

Keys to finding local community food sources to prevent Vitamin A deficiency: What foods are available and how much vitamin a do they contain?

Keys to understanding consumption patterns of vulnerable groups

Keys to beliefs and perceptions about food

Keys to cultural, ecological and socioeconomic factors that constrain consumption of Vitamin A-rich food and prevention of deficiency

Keys to explanations and understandings of Vitamin A deficiency symptoms

Looking to the next steps: From ethnography to intervention design

References