Publications

total food duplicate study on nutrient intake of working women in manila, the philippines.	intakes of various nutrients by working women in manila, the philippines, was surveyed by the total food duplicate method, with foci to elucidate relative weight of three meals and snack in addition to quantitative evaluation of nutrient intakes. in practice, 45 women (average age; 37.2 years) volunteered, who were all nonsmokers and nonhabitual drinkers, and mostly married. in parallel, hematology, serum biochemistry, anthropometry and clinical examinations were conducted. on average, the women ...	1998	9591336
non-occupational exposure of adult women in manila, the philippines, to lead and cadmium.	in total, 45 adult women in manila, the philippines, volunteered to participate in the study by offering peripheral blood samples and 24-h total food duplicate samples. in addition, they offered raw (uncooked) rice as well as wheat flour and maize starch from the kitchen. lead (pb) and cadmium (cd) in food duplicates and blood samples were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry after homogenization (when necessary) and wet-ashing. the consumption of rice, wheat and maize was ca ...	1998	9599459
canned rice products as philippine military food ration.	canned prototypes of rice (cr) and rice meal with pork sausage (crm) were developed as military food ration models for evaluation by personnel in the bonifacio naval station, fort bonifacio, makati, philippines. the prototypes were produced based on the assumption that a serving size equivalent to 400 g cooked rice and a meat-based viand using a 1:4 (wt/wt) viand to rice ratio was adequate as a single-serve meal for a typical philippine military personnel. the cr and crm prototypes were low acid ...	2003	12775372
iron-biofortified rice improves the iron stores of nonanemic filipino women.	iron deficiency is endemic in much of the world, and food system-based approaches to eradication may be viable with new plant breeding approaches to increase the micronutrient content in staple crops. it is thought that conventional plant breeding approaches provide varieties of rice that have 400-500% higher iron contents than varieties commonly consumed in much of asia. the efficacy of consuming high-iron rice was tested during a 9-mo feeding trial with a double-blind dietary intervention in 1 ...	2005	16317127
environmental and human exposure assessment monitoring of communities near an abandoned mercury mine in the philippines: a toxic legacy.	abandoned mines are an important global concern and continue to pose real or potential threats to human safety and health including environmental damage/s. very few countries had government mine regulation and reclamation policies until the latter part of the century where legal, financial and technical procedures were required for existing mining operations. major reasons for mine closure may be mainly due to poor economies of the commodity making mining unprofitable, technical difficulties and ...	2006	16949727
iron absorption: comparison of prediction equations and reality. results from a feeding trial in the philippines.	a number of algorithms have been developed that seek to predict the bioavailability of iron from mixed meals and diets, but their direct validity in predicting change in iron status remains questionable. throughout the course of conducting a large feeding trial in convents in manila, we collected weighed food-intake data and have the opportunity to directly compare the performance of these prediction equations.	2007	18214021