Showing posts with label Flakes Bulbs Garut Reduce Risk of Anemia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flakes Bulbs Garut Reduce Risk of Anemia. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Flakes Bulbs Garut Reduce Risk of Anemia

Nutritional Anemia Iron (AGB) is a problem of micronutrients with the highest prevalence in the world in almost all age groups, gender, and physiological conditions. The most vulnerable groups of anemia are preschool age children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and nursing mothers.

Programs that have been done to reduce the problem of AGB in Indonesia on new juvenile form of nutrition education programs. Fortification is one strategy to improve community nutrition iron deficiency especially for adolescents with a relatively low cost.

In addition, local food enriched by iron and micronutrients may reduce the prevalence of anemia, improve infant iron status, and prevent loss of iron in children aged 6-12 months in developing countries. Thus press release received IPB Republika, Tuesday (13/1).

To reduce the risk of AGB in adolescent girls, researchers from the Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB FEMA) M Mifthah Faridh Chairil and Lili Kustiyah, making flakes formula derived from tubers Garut, which has been published in the Journal of Nutrition and Food in July 2014.