Ahfad Journal articles from December 2001

Ahfad Journal archives from December 2001

Editor's note.(Editorial)
December 1, 2001... Dear readers and subscribers, As guest editor to the second issue of volume eighteen, I would like to welcome you to a special issue. This exclusive issue focuses mainly on the subject of Food and Nutrition. This issue of the Ahfad Journal...

Vitamin A deficiency among children from low socio-economic status living in different environments in Khartoum State.
December 1, 2001... Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem in Sudan. The disease was hyper-endemic in the East, but during the last decade the country has been passing through difficult times and continuous changing situations, where the civil...

Nutritional aspects of food labeling in Saudi Arabia.
December 1, 2001... Few studies have been conducted on food labeling in Saudi Arabia. The objective of this study was to conduct a baseline survey to provide data on nutritional aspects of food labeling in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, consumers' knowledge, attitudes...

Hypoglycaemic effect of guar gum and wheat bran enriched bread.
December 1, 2001... Guar gum and wheat bran were used to formulate two types of bread. The former contains 5% guar gum and 95% wheat flour and the latter 5% wheat bran with 95% wheat flour, for type II diabetic, patients. These two types of high fiber bread were...

The effect of decortication on the nutritive value of Sorghum.
December 1, 2001... Three Sorghum grain cultivars (Dabar, Tabat and Wad Ahmed) were used in this study. They were decorticated to remove 15 and 28% of their weight, and the proximate composition, minerals content, tannin content and in vitro protein digestibility...

Food security and women in developing countries.
December 1, 2001... Women in developing countries play a vital role in meeting the food and nutritional needs of their families through food production, economic access to food and ensuring nutrition security of family members. Despite these contributions, women...

Mona Mohammed El Amim Abdulla (2001) Assessment of the nutritional status and identification of health risk factors of older people in Khartoum State.(Research notes)
December 1, 2001... M.Sc. Human Nutrition. Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. This study aims to assess the nutritional status and identify the health risk factors that face older Sudanese people of both sexes living in Khartoum. Three groups were...

Salma Mohamed Ahmed Yagi (2001) The nutritional assessment of older people in emergency situations (displaced camps).(Research notes)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... M.Sc. Human Nutrition. Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. The contribution that older people make to their families and communities is important. Good nutritional status means that an older person can remain healthy, independent...

Ihsan Ahmed Hassan (2000) Dry and wet supplementary feeding programs for management of malnutrition in an emergency situation.(Research notes)
December 1, 2001... M.Sc. Human Nutrition. Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. This study was conducted to find out the advantages and the disadvantages of the dry and wet. supplementary feeding Programs for the management of moderately malnourished...

Suad Osman Hassan Ahmed (1999) Food consumption patterns of the Dar Hamids and Zagawas in Dar al-Salam, Umbada Province.(Research notes)
December 1, 2001... M.Sc. Human. Nutrition. Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. Khartoum State became a place for settlement of migrants from western Sudan due to periodic drought cycles. No study is available yet on the effects of urbanization on...

Zeinab Osman Mohamed Onsa (1999) Assessment of newly developed weaning food based on sorghum.(Research notes)
December 1, 2001... M.Sc. in Human Nutrition. Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. Trials were made to use local food sources rich in protein (legumes) and vitamin A (carrots, pumpkin) to prepare weaning foods based on the staple sorghum, similar in...

General news.(Ahfad news)
December 1, 2001... Dr Awatif went to Belgium from July 4th-9th 2001 to attend a conference of the ACPEU held on the involvement of non-state actors in European Union development programs. Participants from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries attended Dr...

School of Family Sciences.(Ahfad news)
December 1, 2001... As from July 2001 Dr Osama Awed Salih Dean of the school will chair the newly established Nutrition Research Center and the coordination of M.Sc. Program inHuman Nutrition. Hence Dr Samia El Sayed will take over responsibility as the new Dean...

School of Psychology and Pre-School Education.(Ahfad news)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The School of Psychology and Pre-School Education organised a farewell party for Ustaza Wisal Mohammed Osman (a former editor of the Ahfad Journal research notes) on the occasion of her leaving to the United Kingdom to conduct her Masters in...

School of Organizational Management.(Ahfad news)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The School of Organizational Management has two of its staff members, Sara Osman Yousif (a former editor of the Ahfad News) and Reem El Tayeb El Zubeir conducting their masters degrees in the United Kingdom at the University of Birmingham. The...

School of Rural Extension Education and Development (R.E.E.D).(Ahfad news)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Miss Howeida El Sheikh a lecturer at the school of R.E.E.D participated in the International Gender Summer School that was organised by the Women Studies Unit in collaboration with the Agricultural College of Hambolt University between...

School of Medicine.(Ahfad news)
December 1, 2001... Dr Abd Rahman Kabashi a lecturer lit the school of Medicine participated in the workshop in July 2001, that was conducted the General Administration for Health Welfare, in order to evaluate the previous Polio eradication campaigns and to plan...

Women Studies Unit (WSU).(Ahfad news)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The women studies unit organised a work shop for a period of one week from 29th July--5th August to built the capabilities of the university cadre in gender and women studies research to incorporate gender issues in the different universities...

Documentation Unit for Women Studies.(Ahfad news)
December 1, 2001... Miss Rasha Abd Allah of the Documentation Unit of Women Studies participated as the representative of the Sports committee in the 41st Youth Training session (Tournament) in the sports field, that was organised by the International Olympic...

Teachers Training, Research and Resource Unit.(Ahfad news)
December 1, 2001... On 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, July 2001 the action plans of the different schools and Units were discussed according to the recommendations of the external review. Ustaza Amira Yahia has coordinated a Research Skills Development Course within...

Al Hafeed Library.(Ahfad news)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Miss Nahid Khashm El Mous and Mrs Safaa El Tahir participated in the 12th Arab Conference for the Arab Federation for Libraries and InformatiOn in collaboration with Al Sharga University and the Union for Culture and Journalism. The conference...

Gomez, Adriana and Meacham Deborah (eds.) (2001) Women and Mental Health Reflection of Inequality.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... Chile: Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network. This book consists of four main parts beside the introduction in 166 pages. Part one under the name of "The Malaise of Gender" malaise frequently refers to an emotional state and...

Jerome H. Schiele (2000) Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... New York The Haworth Press Inc. This book comprises eleven chapters and 311 pages (including references and index) has as its central theme a critique of the dominating (in America and other countries) Eurocentric perspective and...

Vincent, Marc and Sorensen, Birgitte Refslund, (eds.) (2001) Caught Between Borders: Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... London: Sterling, Virginia Pluto Press. Recently the internal displacement has emerged as one of the most pressing humanitarian, human rights and poetical issues facing the international community. Globally; there are an estimation of 20 to...

Books received.
December 1, 2001... 1. Juliano, Bienvenido O. (1993) Rice inhuman Nutrition. Rome: FAO 2. Musaiger, Abdulrahman O. et al (1997) The State of Food and Nutrition in the Near East 3. Longree, Karla et al (1971) Sanitary Techniques in Food Service. New York:...