... at: caroltavares@usp.br © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Energy Fats Food products Health promotion Brazil Overweight and obesity essentially reflect an imbalance between calorie intake and utilization by the human body, and the explanation for the increased frequency...

... L.) were acquired from small farmers in Tocantins State, Brazil, during November and December of 2008. Fruits were washed with water to remove debris and dried manually. Afterwards, fruits were selected and damaged units were excluded. Shell and seeds were removed from Jenipapo, but for Bacaba only...

... 2012 Brazil Consumer behaviour Food products Fats Sugar Obesity Nutrition Consumption Obesity is becoming a major public health issue and considered a global epidemic and one of the main factors contributing to the onset of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and cardiovascular...

..., the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the fatty acid composition, especially the concentrations and fractionation of omega‐3 essential fatty acid in classes of mussels (male and female), oysters, squid, and octopus captured on the south coast of Brazil. Design/methodology/approach Fatty acid methyl...

.... is a subtropical fruit native to Southern Asia. In Brazil, was introduced in 1810, the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro. From there, its cultivation has expanded to the Southeast (Menzel, 2002). Besides China, the largest importing countries of the lychee are the USA, Italy, England, Holland and Canada...

.../approach A total of 1,344 workers, who have had meals in 30 different companies, located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, are assessed. Two indicators are used to assess the following: workers' consumption of fruits and vegetables; usual consumption, found through a questionnaire on frequency...

...Edeli Simioni de Abreu; Maria Lima Garbelotti; Elizabeth Aparecida Ferraz Silva Torres Purpose In Brazil, studies on dietary fiber consumption are scarce. The greatest difficulty is to obtain reliable data on the fiber content of foods that are part of Brazilians’ eating habits, which involves...

... Japanese recipes consumed by Japanese immigrants in São Paulo (Brazil) were prepared and analyzed for chemical composition by AOAC methods, for fatty acids profile (gas chromatography) and cholesterol (colorimetric method). Findings Total lipid content (g/100g) ranged from 0.10 to 16.40, with mean±SD...

...Vera Lúcia Valente Mesquita; Maria de Lourdes Reis Giada Purpose In Brazil there is a lack of food composition data and the nutrition professionals frequently need to consult compiled tables of international reference. It is known that the extrapolation of international food data to the regional...

... Iron Infants Health Diet Brazil Iron deficiency anaemia is one of the most common nutritional problems in developing countries, especially during infancy and childhood. This kind of anaemia is reckoned to be the second most frequent disability causing illness in Brazil (MS, 1997). A low...

... intervention is important as a means of reducing the incidence of anaemia in infants, especially in boys and children in the second semester of life, who demonstrated a higher risk. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Infants Nutrition Health Brazil It is estimated that iron deficiency anaemia afflicts...

... unit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Participating in the research were 42 lactating mothers in the 18‐40 age group, who had undergone pre‐natal care and had given birth at the Maternidade‐Escola da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The social‐economic, dietetic and anthropometric...