This study aimed at assessing nutrional quality of the family diet in relation to maternal employment status and family income. The data used for this study (n=3416 families) are a part of the extended National Socio-economic Survey (SUSENAS), collected in February 1990 in Medan, Palembang, Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya. Maternal employment status was classified into three groups namely non-wo…
Objective: To find out the epidemiologic data of pathogenic intestinal protozoa in diarrheal children and to see the clinical features of pathogenic intestinal protozoa infection in various nutritional status. This study was also aimed to see the relationship between pathogenic intestinal protozoa infections and nutritional status. Method: This study was carried out in dr. Syaiful Anwar Teachin…
A good nutrition is the basic need for human beings, either in good or bad condition. For sick people, nutritious food is more needed due to anabolic and catabolic process caused by the disease. Nutritions intake is better and saver given by oral or enteral, so that the gastric mucous is able to get enough nutrition. In case of people in serious condition, such as sepsis or trauma patient need…
A cross section study on the nutritional status of 101 children in pre-elementary school was carried out (52 boys and 49 girls). The age ranged from 5 years 1 month to 6 years 5 months old. The nutritional status was evaluated by WHO-NCHS criteria, 57.8 percent of the boys were wellnourished, 21,1 percent were post malnutrion, 21.1 percent were underfed, girls 63.3 percent were wellnourished, 3…
Reproductive health influences and in turn is affected by various health aspects, namely nutrition, health status during infancy, childhood, teenage years, life style, and environment. Nutritional disorder that effect the male reproductive system is discussed in the paper. Abdominal obesity may cause benign prostate hyperplasia, malnutrition can effect the size of the seminiferous tubles and th…
A relationship between nutrion and rheumatic disease could occur through two possible mechanism. First, food antigen might provoke hypersensitivity responses leading to such symptoms. Second, nutritional factors might alter immune or inflammatory response or both, thus modifying rheumatic symptoms. Rhemuatic diseases which have relationship with food allergy were palindromic rheumatism, rheumat…