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What's in, what's coming, what's wanted

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

Agneta Yngve
Agneta Yngve*
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , May 2007 , pp. 430 - 431
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Once again we hope you will enjoy a truly international issue. This month we have contributions from OceaniaReference Baines, Powers and Brown1, Reference Abdulraheem and Binns2, North AmericaReference Désilets, Rivard, Shatenstein and Delisle3–Reference Quandt, Vitolins, Smith, Tooze, Bell and Davis5, AsiaReference Li, Ren, Zhang, Liu and Li6–Reference Stein, Nestel, Meenakshi, Qaim, Sachdev and Bhutta8, the Middle EastReference Maddah9 and EuropeReference Haerens, De Bourdeaudhuij, Maes, Vereecken, Brug and Deforche10–Reference Petkeviciene, Klumbiene, Prättälä, Paalanen, Pudule and Kasmel13. The content range from socio-economic differences in food choiceReference Désilets, Rivard, Shatenstein and Delisle3, Reference Petkeviciene, Klumbiene, Prättälä, Paalanen, Pudule and Kasmel13; use of food supplementsReference Li, Ren, Zhang, Liu and Li6; and overweight prevalenceReference Sharma, Sharma and Mathur7, Reference Maddah9; to the development of food-frequency questionnaires for use in specified populationsReference Sharma, Cao, Harris, Hennis, Leske and Wu4, Reference Quandt, Vitolins, Smith, Tooze, Bell and Davis5; fish as a source of heavy metalsReference Bates, Prentice, Birch and Delves12; plant breeding targeted to prevent zinc deficiencyReference Stein, Nestel, Meenakshi, Qaim, Sachdev and Bhutta8; the health of vegetariansReference Baines, Powers and Brown1; and health promotion in the school settingReference Haerens, De Bourdeaudhuij, Maes, Vereecken, Brug and Deforche10, Reference Verstraete, Cardon, De Clercq and De Bourdeaudhuij11.

All of the included topics are of importance for public health nutrition. To keep the broad scope and the global spread is essential for the journal.

Treats in store

You can expect some special themes within future issues. One will be a historical view of the development of certain concepts in public health nutrition. Another will be on capacity building and professional development. A supplement on Iodine is published in parallel with this issue, another supplement on overweight and obesity is in preparation.

More feedback please

In this issue we continue the debate on folate consumption and folic acid supplements. We want to print more debates and correspondence – please, when you want to respond to a paper, write us a letter for publication. Letters and commentaries should be sent to phn@soton.ac.uk, and all other comments to me, phn@biosci.ki.se.

References

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