Editorial – May 2010

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One Response to “Editorial – May 2010”

  1. CECILIA A. FLROENCIO Says:
    June 14, 2010 at 7:24 am | Reply

    A colleague called my attention to Commentary: The great vitamin A fiasco in the May 2010 issue of World Nutrition, and I am glad he did. While reading Dr. Latham’s insightful article, I could not help but reflect on our own vitamin fiasco here in the Philippines.

    We, too, have highly influential “experts.” They waved the Vitamin A supplementation “flag” because it was waved elsewhere by the “international community” and then brought to our shores. Our local variety will most likely not signal a retreat until the international community takes the first step. This is truly sad and unfortunate considering the stark facts coming from our own national nutrition surveys that argue, reasonably and well, for “a return to the barracks.”

    Cecilia A. Florencio
    Emeritus Professor of Nutrition
    University of the Philippines

    Some related articles

    1. Florencio CA. Nutrition in the Philippines: The Past for its Color, Red
    for its Color. Quezon City: The University of the Philippines Press;
    2004.

    2. Florencio CA. Millennium development goals relating to poverty,
    hunger, and maternal and child mortality: the Philippine experience.
    In: Science for Health and Nutrition Security – A Feschrift for Dr. C
    Gopalan. New Delhi: Nutrition Foundation for Asia; 2008.

    3. Florencio CA. Nutrition problems and causes: A study of two cases.
    In: Krishnaswamy K. ed. Nutrition Research, Current Scenario and
    Future Trends. New Delhi: Oxford and IBN Publishing Co; 2000.

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