http://global-breastfeeding.org Ted Greiner's Website Sun, 04 May 2008 03:57:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article in the World Journal of Pediatrics is based on a masters thesis that Dr. Jiang Jing Xiang did with me as her supervisor at Uppsala University. It uses data from the first national vitamin A deficiency survey done several years earlier throughout China. Click here to open the pdf file. IMAGE: ... http://global-breastfeeding.org/2008/01/29/vitamin-a-deficiency-and-child-feeding-in-beijing-and-guizhou-china/   Photo from Erika Andresen's (formerly Bergström) thesis.  Click here to download the PDF file. http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/12/06/147/   This is another paper Jiang Jing Xiang wrote for her PhD at Uppsala Medical School in Sweden. Click here to open the pdf file. http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/09/25/the-effects-of-a-3-year-obesity-intervention-in-schoolchildren-in-beijing/   Prepared for the Australian Breastfeeding Association HOTMILK meeting I work with nutrition in developing countries, and breastfeeding has always been a major component of my work. I lived in Sweden for 20 years. My sons were exclusively breastfed for close to 6 months and continued breastfeeding until they were 3.5 years old. When ... http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/07/08/a-return-a-return-to-promoting-breastfeeding-as-an-experience/   Image from www.voanews.com Click here to download the pdf file. http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/06/10/remaining-challenges-in-tanzania%e2%80%99s-efforts-to-eliminate-iodine-deficiency/ This was a comment I was requested to write by The Lancet medical journal. Click here to open the pdf file. http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/05/26/fortification-of-cereals-should-be-mandatory/ Click here to open the pfd file. http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/05/22/influence-of-grandparents-on-eating-behaviors-of-young-children-in-chinese-three-generation-families/ At PATH I now direct the Ultra Rice project. The goal is the develop models for increasing the supply of and demand for fortified rice in China, India, Brazil and Colombia. You can read about this ingenious technology at http://www.path.org/projects/ultra_rice.php At the Micronutrient Forum international meeting in Istanbul, Turkey in April ... http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/04/17/iron-formula-ultra-rice-improves-the-iron-status-of-women-in-mexico/ This paper was part of the battery of important studies done by Vincent Assey in his indefatigable efforts to tackle iodine deficiency disorders, a huge public health problem in his native Tanzania. Click here to download the pdf file http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/03/21/sustainable-universal-salt-iodization-in-low-income-countries-%e2%80%93-time-to-re-think-strategies/ We wholeheartedly agree with Paul Farmer and colleagues [1] that it is vitally important to examine social, as well as molecular, causes of disease. Unless we carefully consider the full range of factors that underlie a given problem, we may produce “solutions" with unintended and deleterious consequences. In this light ... http://global-breastfeeding.org/2007/02/15/structural-violence-and-clinical-medicine-free-infant-formula-for-hiv-exposed-infants/