Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Volume 16, issue 1
(March 2007)


Abstracts

Contents	Abstract	Papers
The Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society Award for 2007: Citation for Duo Li WIDJAJA LUKITO Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):i.	html	pdf
Review Article The role of nutrition in the prevention of coronary heart disease in women of the developed world? CHRISTINE M. GREENE AND MARIA LUZ FERNANDEZ Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):1-9.	html	pdf
Original Articles Adiponectin represents an independent risk factor for hypertension in middle aged Korean women HYUN-SOOK LEE, MYOUNGSOOK LEE AND HYOJEE JOUNG Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):10-15.	html	pdf
Supplementation of a high-CHO breakfast with barley β-glucan improves postprandial glycaemic response for meals but not beverages SALLY D POPPITT, JENNEKE DE VAN DRUNEN, ANNE-THEA MCGILL, TOM B MULVEY AND FIONA E LEAHY Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):16-24.	html	pdf
Reduction of adipose tissue and body weight: effect of water soluble calcium hydroxycitrate in Garcinia atroviridis on the short term treatment of obese women in Thailand CHULAPORN ROONGPISUTHIPONG, RUNGTHIWA KANTAWAN AND WANJARUS ROONGPISUTHIPONG Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):25-29.	html	pdf
Anti-cancer activities of pure curry feeding in cancer cell-transplanted mouse KI-MOON PARK , KYUNG-MI KIM, YOUNG-SEO PARK , MOO-YEOL BAIK AND MYONG-SOO CHUNG Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):30-39.	html	pdf
Effects of phytosterols in diacylglycerol as part of diet therapy on hyperlipidemia in children TAKESHI MATSUYAMA, KENTARO SHOJI, HIDETO TAKASE, ISAMU KAMIMAKI, YURIKO TANAKA, ATSUKO OTSUKA, HIROYUKI WATANABE, TADASHI HASE AND ICHIRO TOKIMITSU Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):40-48.	html	pdf
Nutritional Status, Dietary Intake, and Body Composition Anthropometric indices and life style practices of aboriginal (Orang Asli) adults in Lembah Belum, Grik of Peninsular Malaysia Hayati Mohd Yusof, Ting Siew Ching, Roshita Ibrahim and Safiih Lola Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):49-55.	html	pdf
Change in diet and body mass index in Taiwanese women with length of residence in Australia Wan-Ping Lee, Jennifer Lingard and Margaret Bermingham Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):56-65.	html	pdf
Can bioelectric impedance monitors be used to accurately estimate body fat in Chinese adults? Duncan J Macfarlane Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):66-73.	html	pdf
Gender and socio-economic differences in BMI of secondary high school students in Ho Chi Minh City Hong K Tang, Michael J Dibley, David Sibbritt and Hanh MT Tran Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):74-83.	html	pdf
Macro- Micro- and Phyto-nutrients Intervention with traditional food as a major source of energy, protein, iron, vitamin C and vitamin A for rural Dalit mothers and young children in Andhra Pradesh , South India MARTINA SCHMID, B. SALOMEYESUDAS, P. SATHEESH, JAMES HANLEY AND HARRIET KUHNLEIN Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):84-93.	html	pdf
Impact of vitamin a supplementation on health status and absenteeism of school children in Sri Lanka SANATH THUSHARA CHAMAKARA MAHAWITHANAGE, KANNANGARA KORALALAGE NALIN PRIYAD ARSHANA KANNANGARA, RENU WICKREMASINGHE, UDUMALAGALA GAMAGE CHANDRIKA, ERROL R JANSZ, NADIRA DARSHANI KARUNAWEERA AND ANANDA RAJITHA WICKREMASINGHE Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):94-102.	html	pdf
Oral vitamin B12 supplementation reduces plasma total homocysteine concentration in Asian Indian women CHITTARANJAN S YAJNIK, HIMANGI G LUBREE, NILEEMA V THUSE, LALITA V RAMDAS, SWAPNA S DESHPANDE, VAISHALI U DESHPANDE, JYOTI A DESHPANDE, BHAGYASHREE S URADEY, ANJALI A GANPULE, SADANAND S NAIK, NIRANJAN P JOSHI, HANNAH FARRANT AND HELGA REFSUM Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):103-109.	html	pdf
Metabolic fate of intravenously administered N-acetylneuraminic acid-6 -14C in newborn piglets Bing Wang, Jeff A Downing, Peter Petocz, Jennie Brand-Miller and Wayne L Bryden Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):110-115.	html	pdf
Effects of wheat flour fortified with different iron fortificants on iron status and anemia prevalence in iron deficient anemic students in Northern China JING Sun, Jian Huang, Wenxian Li, Lijuan Wang, Anxu Wang, Junsheng Huo, Junshi Chen and Chunming Chen Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):116-121.	html	pdf
Salt usage behaviours are related to urinary sodium excretion in normotensive Korean adults Hyun Ju Kim, Hee Young Paik , Sim Yeol Lee, Jae Eun Shim and Young Sik Kim Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):122-128.	html	pdf
Establishment of an isoflavone database for usual Korean foods and evaluation of isoflavone intake among Korean children Min Kyung Park , YoonJu Song, Hyojee Joung, Shan-ji Li and Hee Young Paik Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):129-139.	html	pdf
Content of a novel online collection of traditional east African food habits (1930s – 1960s): data collected by the Max-Planck-Nutrition Research Unit, Bumbuli , Tanzania VERENA RASCHKE, ULRICH OLTERSDORF, IBRAHIM ELMADFA, MARK L. WAHLQVIST, BIRINDER S. B. CHEEMA AND ANTIGONE KOURIS-BLAZOS Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):140-151.	html	pdf
Growth and Child Nutrition Subclinical vitamin A deficiency and anemia among Vietnamese children less than five years of age NGUYEN CONG KHAN, NGUYEN XUAN NINH, NGUYEN VAN NHIEN, HA HUY KHOI , CLIVE E WEST AND JOSEPH GAJ HAUTVAST Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):152-157.	html	pdf
Vitamin A status of the minority ethnic group of Karen hill tribe children aged 1-6 years in Northern Thailand PRASONG TIENBOON AND PRASIT WANGPAKAPATTANAWONG Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):158-162.	html	pdf
Decision to breastfeed and early cessation of breastfeeding in infants below 6 months old – A population-based study of 3,204 infants in Hong Kong WARREN T K LEE, ERIC WONG, SUAN SH LUI, VERONICA CHAN AND JOSEPH LAU Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):163-171.	html	pdf
Supplementation of baby formula with native inulin has a prebiotic effect in formula-fed babies SOOK-HE KIM, DA HEE LEE AND DIEDERICK MEYER Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):172-177.	html	pdf
Aging Anthropometric and biochemical markers for nutritional risk among residents within an Australian residential care facility JESSICA GRIEGER, CARYL NOWSON AND M LEIGH ACKLAND Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):178-186.	html	pdf
Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health Prevalence of diabetes mellitus and population attributable fractions for coronary heart disease and stroke mortality in the WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions ASIA PACIFIC COHORT STUDIES COLLABORATION Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):187-192.	html	pdf
Time-lag estimate between dietary intake and breast cancer mortality in Japan EMIKO HARASHIMA, YASUE NAKAGAWA, GUNPEI URATA, KEISUKE TSUJI, MASUO SHIRATAKA　AND YASUHIRO MATSUMURA Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):193-198.	html	pdf
Book Reviews Oxford Handbook of Nutrition & Dietetics by Joan Webster-Gandy, Angela Madden and Michelle Holdsworth MARK L. WAHLQVIST Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16(1):199.	pdf	pdf

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Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society Award for 2007

WIDJAJA LUKITO
Duo Li is a Professor of Nutrition and Food Safety in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Biosystem Engineering and Food Science at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. He is the current Director of the Nutrition and Food Safety Center of the Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society, and is a Deputy Director of the Food Science Institute, Zhejiang University. Duo Li was born on 2nd March 1958 in Tianshui, Gansu Province, China, but has since become an Australian citizen, and also a China permanent resident. After he gained a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine (Lanzhou University, China) in 1982, he taught pharmacology in Wudu Health School, Gansu Province, and Beijing Medical College for Medical professionals, China. He was a Visiting Researcher at the School of Pharmacy, University of Tasmania from 1989-1990. He completed both his MSc (University of Tasmania, Hobart) and PhD in Nutrition and Food Science (RMIT University, Melbourne) in Australia. He was also a research fellow at Deakin University, and a senior research fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne.
    He is a co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and has also served on numerous editorial boards including the Mahasarakham Journal of Science and Technology, Health Review, China Healthcare & Nutrition, and China Food & Nutrition. He is a member of the, Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society, the Nutrition Society of Australia, the Nutrition Society of China, the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology, and the American Oil Chemists Society.
    He has the served on numerous government boards. He has been a fellow of China National Food and Nutrition Consultation Committee, a Standing committee member of the China Food Safety Consultation Committee, and a member of the Zhejiang Food Safety Experts Consultation Committee. He is currently the Director of the Ethics Committee and a member of the Scientific Board, College of Biosystem Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University.
    Duo Li discoveries have been largely in the field of lipid nutrition and metabolism. Amongst them he has found  that (1) arachidonic acid is present in animal lipocytes, (2) increased dietary intake of clupanodonic acid (22:5n-3) results in reduced platelet volume, (3) vegetarians may  have  increased platelet activity caused by low dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid intake, (4) long-term n-3 fatty acid deficiency leads to an increased plasma homocysteine level, (5) metabolism of arachidonic acid can be suppressed by dietary animal fat intake, (6) high meat intake will lead to an increased tissue stearic level, later associated with an increased plasma coagulation factor VII activity. He first reported that (1) 16:3n-3 was found in green vegetables, (2) alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid have equivalent effects in reducing blood cholesterol , (3) stearic acid from plants and animals have  different effect son blood and lipoprotein lipids, which may be caused by the arrangement of stearic acid and other fatty acids in plants and animal fats among the three available etherification sites present on the backbone of TAG molecules and on  other components which are present in fats.
    Duo received  an  Award for  the Promotion of  Student Nutrition and Health Tasks in  2004 in China; Australian Postgraduate Awards in  1995, 1996 and 1997; a Zhejiang Science and Technology System award  from the Science and Technology Association, Zhejiang Province, China; 1st Prize  in  Natural Science  for the paper: “Relationship between platelet phospholipid fatty acid and mean platelet volume in healthy men”, Academic Committee of Natural Science, Zhejiang Province, China.
    He has  organized or chaired  various  international scientific conferences such as the International Symposium on the  Evolution of Food Safety and Nutrition, in October 2002, in Hangzhou, China; the  Joint ZAST/IUNS/WHO workshop on “Current Patterns and Emerging Challenges of Nutrition cuisine and health”, in October 2003, Hangzhou, China; and the  Joint International Clinical Nutrition Conference of the International Union of Nutritional Science (8th ISCN-IUNS) and the Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society (5th APCNS), in Oct 2006, Hangzhou, China.
    Duo has published more than 150 scientific papers and several books or book chapters. His supervision of many PhD and Masters Students ha increased the capacity of young nutrition investigators in Asia. His research group has integrated research themes on nutrition and food safety in some five areas. The first is food bioactivity (anti-inflammation, anti-diabetes, anti-hypertension, anti-cancer, hypo-blood lipids etc) using whole foods, food ingredients, natural products, foods for health and functional foods, through in vitro studies, animal models and human clinical trials. The secondly is food safety evaluation, with an emphasis on the long term safety of foods. Third, the relationship between non-communicable diseases and habitual dietary intake. The fourth area is the evaluation of novel food sand potential natural nutrient resources, through compositional and physiological studies. Finally, his work examines how nutrients, food ingredients and natural products influence the expression of select genes.
    His commitment to nutrition scholarship and capacity building in the Asia Pacific region make him a most worthy recipient of the Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society Award in 2007.

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The role of nutrition in the prevention of coronary heart disease in women of the developed world

CHRISTINE M GREENE AND MARIA LUZ FERNANDEZ

Cardiovascular disease claims more than 500,000 women per year, making this disease the number one killer of women. Coronary heart disease in developed countries can be used as a representative classification when discussing cardiovascular disease management. Within the last 10 years research has illuminated the contributing risk factors and disease progression as they uniquely relate to women. Yet, current approaches to the prevention of primary risk factors in the development of cardiovascular disease fail to reach the potential described in scientific literature. Traditional prescriptions relied on hormone therapy or pharmacologic intervention to manage coronary heart diseases ignoring the non-hormonal aspects of cardiovascular health. Recent trends have begun to emphasize diet as a tool for the prevention of heart disease in women. This review attempts to highlight nutrition as a prescription that can be utilized to reduce the significant risk factors that women, who live in developed nations, face throughout their lifetime.

Key Words: Coronary heart disease, primary risk factors, nutrition, women, lifestyle, developed countries

 

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Adiponectin represents an independent risk factor for hypertension in middle aged Korean women

HYUN-SOOK LEE, MYOUNGSOOK LEE AND HYOJEE JOUNG

Adiponectin, which is secreted specifically by adipose tissue, has been shown to act as an anti-atherosclerotic protein. Several studies have shown that adiponectin levels are lower in individuals with obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The present study investigated relationships between serum adiponectin levels and body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), blood pressure (BP) and lipid profiles in 300 middle-aged Korean women (mean age 50.6 ± 6.2; BMI 25.78 ± 3.68 kg/m2). The serum adiponectin level was positively associated with high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol (r = 0.29) and negatively associated with BMI, WHR, percent body fat, triglyceride (TG), systolic BP, and diastolic BP. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that increasing concentrations of adiponectin were associated with lower risk of hypertension. In overall odds ratios (95% CIs) for hypertension, those in the second, third, and fourth (versus the first) quartile of adiponectin after adjustment for age were 0.59 (0.297 – 1.185), 0.47 (0.236 – 0.938), and 0.32 (0.16 – 0.648), respectively. Regardless of BMI, WHR and percent body fat, higher adiponectin was independently associated with a lower risk of hypertension. These findings suggest that the serum adiponectin level is decreased with atherogenic lipid phenotype including hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL-cholesterol. Furthermore, low serum adiponectin concentration may be an independent risk factor for hypertension in middle-aged Korean women.

   Key Words: adiponectin, hypertension, blood pressure, middle-aged Korean women

 

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Supplementation of a high-carbohydrate breakfast with barley β-glucan improves postprandial glycaemic response for meals but not beverages

SALLY D POPPITT, JENNEKE DE VAN DRUNEN, ANNE-THEA MCGILL, TOM B MULVEY AND FIONA E LEAHY

There is growing support for the protective role of soluble fibre in type II diabetes. Soluble fibre β-glucan found in cereal products including oats and barley may be the active component. There is evidence of postprandial blunting of blood glucose and insulin responses to dietary carbohydrates when oat soluble fibre is supplemented into the diet but few trials have been carried out using natural barley or enriched barley β-glucan products. The aim of this trial was to investigate the postprandial effect of a highly enriched barley β-glucan product on blood glucose, insulin and lipids when given with a high-carbohydrate (CHO) food and a high-CHO drink. 18 lean, healthy men completed a 4 treatment intervention trial comprising (i) high-CHO_{food control}, (ii) high-CHO_food+fibre, (iii) high-CHO_{drink control}, (iv) high-CHO_drink+fibre where a 10g dose of barley β-glucan fibre supplement (Cerogen) containing 6.31g β-glucan was added to food and drink controls. There was an increase of glucose and insulin following all 4 treatments. Addition of the β-glucan supplement significantly blunted the glycaemic and insulinaemic responses on the food (p<0.05) but not drink (p>0.05) treatments when compared to controls. The high-CHO breakfasts decreased total, LDL- and HDL-cholesterol from baseline to 60mins postprandially but there were no differential effects of β-glucan treatment on circulating lipids. We conclude that a high dose barley β-glucan supplement can improve glucose control when added to a high-CHO starchy food, probably due to increased gastro-intestinal viscosity, but not when added to a high-CHO beverage where rapid absorption combined with decreased β-glucan concentration and viscosity may obviate this mechanism.

Key Words:Soluble fibre, barley β-glucan, carbohydrate, glucose, insulin

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Reduction of adipose tissue and body weight: effect of water soluble calcium hydroxycitrate in Garcinia atroviridis on the short term treatment of obese women in Thailand

CHULAPORN ROONGPISUTHIPONG, RUNGTHIWA KANTAWAN AND WANJARUS ROONGPISUTHIPONG

Fifty obese women with a body mass index (BMI) over 25 kg/m² were randomly allocated into two groups, 25 in each. Group 1, with a mean (±SEM) age of 40.0±2 years, received water soluble calcium hydroxycitrate (HCA) as Garcinia atroviridis. Group 2, with a mean age of 35.6±1.8 years, received placebo. All subjects were recommended a similar diet with 1000 Kcal/day. The trial lasted for 2 months. At baseline the means BMI of Group 1 and Group 2 were 27.5±0.2 kg.m^-2 and 26.7±0.5 kg.m^-2, respectively. Group 1 lost significantly more weight (2.8 vs. 1.4 kg, p<0.05) and at a greater rate than Group 2 throughout the study. The decrease in their body weight was due to a loss of fat storage as evidenced by a significant decrease in the triceps skin fold thickness. On a short-term basis, HCA in Garcinia atroviridis was an effective for weight management.

   Key Words: adipose tissue, obese women, Garcinia atroviridis

 

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Anti-cancer activities of pure curry feeding in cancer cell-transplanted mouse

KI-MOON PARK , KYUNG-MI KIM, YOUNG-SEO PARK , MOO-YEOL BAIK AND MYONG-SOO CHUNG

To confirm the cytotoxic effect of instant curry containing combined spices on cancer cells in vivo, cancer was induced by transplanting cancer cells to mice, and the development of cancer upon feeding pure curry were examined. The concentration of lipid peroxide in the groups transplanted with cancer cells which were fed with normal feed was 19.6 nM, and it was increased as the amount of pure curry was increased. The concentration of cytochrome P-450 was decreased in the group transplanted with cancer cells which were fed with pure curry and the group without the transplant which were fed with pure curry when compared with the groups which were fed with normal feed. The activity of cytochrome P-450 was decreased as the concentration of cytochrome P-450 was decreased in the groups transplanted with cancer cells. However, it was increased in the groups without cancer cell transplant when over 2% of pure curry was fed. The amount of glutathione was increased in the groups transplanted with cancer cells when over 2% of pure curry was fed. The activities of glutathione peroxidase and glutathione S-transferase were decreased in the groups transplanted with cancer cells which were fed with over 1% of pure curry, and were restored to the level of the group without cancer cell transplant which were fed with normal feed. The superoxide dismutase activity in the groups transplanted with cancer cells was restored to the level of the group without cancer cell transplant which was fed with normal feed when over 1% of pure curry was fed.