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Iron and vitamin A

Iron and vitamin A Undernourished people of the granules (vitamin A in th e natural for m is an oily liquid) and this was worl d are rarely short of just one mineral and vitamin . They are added t o the finished product at usually short of several essential the refinery. nutrients, and because of the Nutritional intervention inter-dependence between dietary components, a deficiency of Before, durin g and after this certain nutrients can affect the 'nutritional intervention' preschool body's ability to absorb or utilise children and lactating mothers others. The relationship between fro m twelve rural communities iron and vitamin A is not widely were closely studied. The appreciated. programme resulted in a three fold increase in th e amount of Dr Luis Mejia, of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and vitamin A ingested, dramatically reduced the incidence of vitamin Panama, Guatemala, has shown deficiency and raised the levels of wit h his colleagues tha t there is a vitamin A in breast milk of biological interaction between nursing mothers. As the blood vitamin A and iron; indeed vitamin A is as vita l t o blood levels of vitamin A changed for the better, so did blood levels of formation as it is to the health of iron, although dietary intakes of the skin and mucous membrane iron did not change. It appeared and the efficiency of dark tha t one of the positive effects of adaptation mechanisms of the eye. improving vitamin A status is to mobilise iron fro m body stores, In Central America the incidence indicating that vitamin A has a of vitamin A deficiency in the part t o play in the transport of early 1970's wa s very high. One in iron between body tissues and is every five children surveyed in not simply acting by improving Nicaragua had unacceptably low iron absorption fro m the diet, vitamin A blood levels. In El although there is some evidence Salvador it was every other child. tha t this in fact might also be so. A t the end of 1975 an ambitious fortification programme was This summary is based on a paper started. Sugar was relatively given by Dr Luis Antonio Mejia, cheap and plentiful and nearly Division of Human Biology and everyone ate it. Sugar was Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition of therefore chosen as th e vehicle to Central America and Panama, (INCAP), carry supplemental vitamin A. Guatemala, at the Foundation for Technical differences were Nutritional Advancement's first overcome by the preparation of a international conference on nutrition, special dry for m of vitamin A held in Tokyo, Japan in June 1981. September/October 1982 11 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nutrition & Food Science Emerald Publishing

Iron and vitamin A

Nutrition & Food Science , Volume 82 (5): 1 – May 1, 1982
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Undernourished people of the granules (vitamin A in th e natural for m is an oily liquid) and this was worl d are rarely short of just one mineral and vitamin . They are added t o the finished product at usually short of several essential the refinery. nutrients, and because of the Nutritional intervention inter-dependence between dietary components, a deficiency of Before, durin g and after this certain nutrients can affect the 'nutritional intervention' preschool body's ability to absorb or utilise children and lactating mothers others. The relationship between fro m twelve rural communities iron and vitamin A is not widely were closely studied. The appreciated. programme resulted in a three fold increase in th e amount of Dr Luis Mejia, of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and vitamin A ingested, dramatically reduced the incidence of vitamin Panama, Guatemala, has shown deficiency and raised the levels of wit h his colleagues tha t there is a vitamin A in breast milk of biological interaction between nursing mothers. As the blood vitamin A and iron; indeed vitamin A is as vita l t o blood levels of vitamin A changed for the better, so did blood levels of formation as it is to the health of iron, although dietary intakes of the skin and mucous membrane iron did not change. It appeared and the efficiency of dark tha t one of the positive effects of adaptation mechanisms of the eye. improving vitamin A status is to mobilise iron fro m body stores, In Central America the incidence indicating that vitamin A has a of vitamin A deficiency in the part t o play in the transport of early 1970's wa s very high. One in iron between body tissues and is every five children surveyed in not simply acting by improving Nicaragua had unacceptably low iron absorption fro m the diet, vitamin A blood levels. In El although there is some evidence Salvador it was every other child. tha t this in fact might also be so. A t the end of 1975 an ambitious fortification programme was This summary is based on a paper started. Sugar was relatively given by Dr Luis Antonio Mejia, cheap and plentiful and nearly Division of Human Biology and everyone ate it. Sugar was Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition of therefore chosen as th e vehicle to Central America and Panama, (INCAP), carry supplemental vitamin A. Guatemala, at the Foundation for Technical differences were Nutritional Advancement's first overcome by the preparation of a international conference on nutrition, special dry for m of vitamin A held in Tokyo, Japan in June 1981. September/October 1982 11

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