Please add a link to your the reading you chose for assignment #1 here as a comment. In your comment make sure you include: name, nutrient and a sentence about the reading.
For example:
IRON – Bee – http://www.micronutrient.org/english/view.asp?x=579
Scope of problems iron deficiency and what MicroNutrient Initiative is specifically doing to combat it.
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Vitamin B12- Feng (Jennifer) Huang
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?hid=7&sid=1e449904-5162-4130-941c-5ebdcb9e6609%40sessionmgr11&vid=2
Title of Article:Overview of Vitamin B12 deficiency and addresses the issue by considering vitamin b12 fortification of flour.
Iodine deficiencies.
Triple fortification of salt with microcapsules of iodine, iron, and
vitamin A.
A successful attempt to encapsulate iodine, iron and vitamin A in salt.
http://www.ajcn.org/content/80/5/1283.full.pdf+html
ZINC – Maternal zinc deficiency during pregnancy and its affect on fetal outcome. Currently, available information does not support the routine use of zinc supplementation to improve pregnancy outcome.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2006.tb00169.x/abstract
Vitamin A
Information about past attempts of food fortification with Vitamin A, as well as lessons learned, for future implementation of food fortification programs.
History of Technology Development for Vitamin A Fortification of Foods in Developing Countries (1996)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w2840e/w2840e0c.htm
Title of Journal Article:Considering the case for vitamin B12 fortification. –>Overview of Vitamin B12 deficiency and addresses the issue by considering vitamin b12 fortification of flour.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=RhH6uSQy7a4C&lpg=PA377&ots=7E87pasw3F&dq=vitamin%20a%20deficiency&lr&pg=PA377#v=onepage&q=vitamin%20a%20deficiency&f=false
Vitamin A Deficiency (Chapter 13)
Vitamin C – Radwa
USAID’s (US Agency for International Development) role in fortifying blended foods with Vitamin C to distribute to target populations through the Food for Peace program.
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6009&page=9
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Vitamin B6 Deficiency. This short article is actually a story about “Baby Jay” and his family and looks at the various symptoms of Vitamin B6 deficiency.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3418342
Iron and malaria: addressing potential risks from food-based approaches to alleviate iron deficiency among children less than two years of age exposed to malaria.
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/Misc_Crop/iron-malaria-positionpaper.pdf
Will mandatory folic acid fortification prevent or promote cancer?
http://www.ajcn.org/content/80/5/1123.full.pdf+html
Weekly iron-folic acid supplementation (WIFS) and deworming program associated with improved iron and hemogloblin status in women of reproductive age in North Vietnam.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/261