K. Visweswara Rao ¹, B. V. S. Thimmayamma ¹, Parvathi Rau ¹, M. C. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai Osmania P. O., Hyderabad-500 007, IN

Abstract

The scales of calorie coefficients indicate how total family food should be divided among the members of a family based upon physiological needs.

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K. Visweswara Rao ¹, B. V. S. Thimmayamma ¹, Parvathi Rau ¹, M. C. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai Osmania P. O., Hyderabad-500 007, IN

Abstract

Scales of calorie coefficients or consumption units have often been used to determine nutrient intakes of individuals in a family from data based upon family diet surveys. These scales indicate how the total family food should be divided among the members of a family based upon physiological needs.

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M. C. Swaminathan

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The symposium on U.K. Health needs in a changing setting was held at the Ciba Foundation, London, on 3 and 4 December 1975. The cent change in the administrative structure of the National Health Service in merging the administration of the three services, hospitals, family practitioners and local authority health services, by comprehensive health authorities working under the general direction of central departments of health was to provide the population with comprehensive integrated health care. Consumers are represented by new community health councils, one for every district. As indicated by the Chairman, the primary purpose of the symposium was to understand the various preconditioning factors and underlying forces affecting health needs in U.K., since there are serious doubts about the efficacy of the recent changes in meeting the health needs of the population.

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M. C. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 World Food Programme, FAO, 55, Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110003, IN

Abstract

Supplementary feeding programme has always been one of the basic measures adopted for raising the level of nutritional status of vulnerable segments of the population in India. The beneficiaries selected were mostly preschool children belonging to low socio economic groups.

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B. V. S. Thimmayamma ¹, K. Satyanarayana ¹, Parvati K. Rao ¹, M. C. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad-7, IN

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The present study is an attempt to assess the dietary and nutritional status of families drawn from different socioeconomic groups in the city of Hyderabad. Data relating to dietary intake and the influence of economic status on the dietary pattern are reported in this paper.

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Parvathi Rau ¹, B. V. S. Thimmayamma ¹, D. S. Hanumantha Rao ¹, M. C. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai-Osmania, Hyderabad-7, IN

Abstract

Among the different methods of diet survey, weighment method is considered to be the most reliable one, since the actual foods taken by groups of persons are weighed.

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M. Parvathi Rau ¹, D. Hanumantha Rao ¹, A. Nadamuni Naidu ¹, M. C. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai-Osmania P. O., Hyderabad-7, IN

Abstract

Protein-calorie malnutrition is a problem of considerable public health importance among the pre-school children of the lower socio-economic groups, Someswara Rao et al and Pralhad Rao et al. Dietary surveys among these groups (Pralhad Rao et al) revealed that protein intake was adequate or marginal as compared to their requirements based on actual body weights. However, their calorie intake was found to fall short on the average by 300 calories per day.

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M. C. Swaminathan ¹, D. Hanumantha Rao ¹, R. Visweswara Rao ¹, M. V. V. L. Narasimhan ¹, Narana Sinai Dumo ¹

Affiliations
1 National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai Osmania, Hyderabad-7, A. P., IN

Abstract

Protein calorie malnutrition is the most widespread nutritional problem of pre-school children in India. Considerable information has been accumulated regarding the factors that are responsible for its widespread prevalence. The solution to the problem obviously cannot lie in the treatment of such cases, but in their control and prevention. The economic implications of the situation cannot be under estimated since the cost of treatment of even a small proportion of cases will be considerable.

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M. C. Swaminathan

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Measurements of physical growth and maturation, health records, nutritional intakes and biochemical and haematologic variables collected by the Child Research Council in a longitudinal study of a selected group of subjects during the period from 1927 to 1967 are presented in the volume.

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M. C. Swaminathan

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The study of body composition helps in the understanding of the biological and medical significance of human physique. The book under review has been edited by Dr. Josef Brozek whose contribution to the study of body composition is well known. The book has a collection of papers presented at the symposium on body composition, held in London in 1963.

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