ABSTRACT Background: Obesity in school children is the problem of world epidemics of which its prevalence increases sharply. Food marketing through television is presumed to be one of the causing factors. Objective: To find out whether exposure to food and beverage ads through television influenced food choice and intake in children and whether its effect varied in different nutrition stat…
ABSTRACT Background: Obesity in school children is the problem of world epidemics of which its prevalence increases sharply. Food marketing through television is presumed to be one of the causing factors. Objective: To find out whether exposure to food and beverage ads through television influenced food choice and intake in children and whether its effect varied in different nutrition stat…
Previous study reported th at among 79 obese female adolescents in Yogyakarta Special Region, 44 (55.7%) of th em have insulin resistance. However, no significant differences on dietary habits and physical activity between the obese female who have insulin resistance and those who are insulin sensitive were observed. Therefore, it was thought that genetic factors are involved in the occurrence …
Complication of daily treatment of iron efficiency anemia in children is still low. The complicance will be increased if the iron supplementation is given weekly. Previous study showed that there was no significant difference in the increase in hemoglobin level between daily and weekly treatment in prepubertial children. To study the difference in the increase in hemoglobin and serum ferritin l…
Diabtes mellitus type 1 has been reported as a very rare delayed manifestation of congenital rubella syndrome. We reported a confirmed case of congenital rubella syndrome that developed diabetes mellitus at the age of seven years. The girl had been complaining of diabetes symptoms since six months before admission, but had been misdiagnosed. The patients finally came with symptoms of diabtetic…