NAHRES Newsletter No. 21

NAHRES Newsletter No. 21

The Nutritional & Health-related Environmental Studies Section is excited to share its eNewsletter. 

In this issue:

  • Call for more data on body composition to feed into IAEA global database
  • Invitation to participate in IAEA interlaboratory comparison for analysis of deuterium enriched water
  • Recorded webinar on protein quality as part of the Community of Practice activities
  • Fourth episode of Nuclear in Nutrition Interview Series with a focus on breast milk intake featuring interviews with nutrition experts on the use of the deuterium-oxide dose-to-mother technique
  • Success story from Kenya highlighting the growing need for body weight management guidelines
  • Novel stable isotope method revealing pathways for nutrient absorption
  • New predictive equation for total energy expenditure enabling detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake
  • New anthropometric prediction models of body composition in 3 to 24month old infants
  • Nutritional status and body composition of South Indian children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  • Enhanced access to IAEA educational resources on the use of isotopic methods in human health and nutrition