Usha Chandrashekar

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This book entitled, "World Nutrition and Nutrition Education" is a well gathered proceedings of the Oxford Conference on Nutrition Education held in September 1977. This book includes three sections covering all the papers presented and section four deals review of the conference.

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Usha Chandrashekar

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This report is the outcome of the Fifth Ross Round Table Seminar on Critical approaches to common pediatric problems in collaboration with the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. These series of seminars on problems of practice are organised in the interest of postgraduate pediatric education and in dedication to the physician whose practice embraces the case of children.

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Usha Chandrashekar

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Colour and appearance are the primary basis of acceptance or rejection of food. However, much would depend on the preconceived notions of the consumer as to what the acceptable colour of a food should be. Proper measurement of colour is of great importance in product development and to a food technologist this would be one of the prime considerations in the marketability of the products.

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Usha Chandrashekar

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This report is the outcome of the Fifth Ross Round Table Seminar on critical approaches to common pediatric problems in collaboration with the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. These series of seminars on problems of practice are organised in the interest of postgraduate pediatric education and in dedication to the physician whose practice embraces the care of children.

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Paul Gyorgy ¹, Rajammal P. Devadas ², Usha Chandrashekar ²

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1 School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, US
2 Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College for Women, Coimbatore-641011, IN

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Malnutrition has been an important problem at the start of academic scientific paediatrics during the second half of the 19th and throughout the 20th centuries. At first it was fairly common even in the western countries. During the last 30 to 40 years, it has been the leading paediatric problem among infants and pre-school children and even adolescents.

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Rajammal P. Devadas ¹, V. Anuradha ¹, Usha Chandrashekar ¹

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1 Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College for Women, Coimbatore-641011, IN

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Conquest of hunger has been the aspiration of man since his appearance on earth. Malnutrition is a problem of great concern at national and international levels. The Indian dietaries are deficient not only in protein but also in minerals and vitamins as revealed by Jelliffe, Gopalan FAO, Scrimshaw, and Behar.

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