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| Nelia P SteynSummaryAffiliation: Medical Research Council Country: South Africa Publications
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Food variety and dietary diversity scores in children: are they good indicators of dietary adequacy?N P Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 9:644-50. 2006..To assess whether a food variety score (FVS) and/or a dietary diversity score (DDS) are good indicators of nutrient adequacy of the diet of South African children...- National fortification of staple foods can make a significant contribution to micronutrient intake of South African adultsNelia P Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle, Medical Research Council, P Bag 19070, Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 11:307-13. 2008..Mandatory fortification of maize meal and wheat flour were introduced in 2003 to combat some of the deficiencies found in children. To date however, there has not been a national survey on dietary intake in adults... - Workforce development in South Africa with a focus on public health nutritionNelia P Steyn
South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 11:792-800. 2008..Additionally, it examines ways in which the Department of Health (DOH) is striving to meet the increasing burden of nutrition-related diseases in South Africa... - Conference on "Multidisciplinary approaches to nutritional problems". Symposium on "Diabetes and health". Nutrition interventions for the prevention of type 2 diabetesNelia P Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa
Proc Nutr Soc 68:55-70. 2009..Further factors predicting success are weight loss achieved, duration and intensity of the intervention and dietary compliance... - Development and validation of a questionnaire to test knowledge and practices of dietitians regarding dietary supplementsNelia P Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Nutrition 21:51-8. 2005.... - Secondary anthropometric data analysis of the National Food Consumption Survey in South Africa: the double burdenN P Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Tygerberg, South Africa
Nutrition 21:4-13. 2005..We investigated the prevalences of overweight, obesity, and stunting in a current generation of children (ages 12 to 108 mo), which has a high prevalence of stunting, and evaluated the determinants of both nutritional disorders... - Diet, nutrition and the prevention of type 2 diabetesN P Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Medical Research Council MRC, Tygerberg, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 7:147-65. 2004..The overall objective of this study was to evaluate and provide evidence and recommendations on current published literature about diet and lifestyle in the prevention of type 2 diabetes... 
Evidence to support a food-based dietary guideline on sugar consumption in South AfricaN P Steyn
Chronic Disease of Lifestyle Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre for Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
Bull World Health Organ 81:599-608. 2003..This paper summarizes the evidence available for such a guideline and the nature of that evidence. Other low- and middle-income countries, particularly those in Africa, may face a similar dilemma and might learn from our experience...- Secondary data analyses of dietary surveys undertaken in South Africa to determine usual food consumption of the populationNelia Patricia Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, South African Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 6:631-44. 2003..The reference table was required to be representative of foods and beverages eaten frequently by children and adults from all age and ethnic groups in order for the Department of Health to test for contaminants in these foods... - How well do adolescents determine portion sizes of foods and beverages?Nelia P Steyn
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, 7505, South Africa
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 15:35-42. 2006..It is recommended that in dietary interviews undertaken in black children in urban areas one could use either aid; while in white adolescents the use of the food models is recommended... - Urbanisation and the nutrition transition: a comparison of diet and weight status of South African and Kenyan womenNelia P Steyn
Centre for the Study of the Determinants of Social and Environmental Nutrition, Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Scand J Public Health 40:229-38. 2012..To determine and compare the extent of the nutrition transition between Kenyan and South African women... - Dietary, social, and environmental determinants of obesity in Kenyan womenNelia P Steyn
Centre for the Study of the Social and Environmental Determinants of Nutrition, Knowledge Systems, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Scand J Public Health 39:88-97. 2011..To assess the determinants of overweight and obesity in Kenyan women considered to be undergoing the nutrition transition... - Street foods and fast foods: how much do South Africans of different ethnic groups consume?Nelia P Steyn
Centre for the Study of Social and Environmental Determinants of Nutrition, Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research, Cape Town, South Africa
Ethn Dis 21:462-6. 2011..To assess consumption of street food (sold by vendors) and fast food (from fast food outlets) by different ethnic groups in South Africa... - "HealthKick": Formative assessment of the health environment in low-resource primary schools in the Western Cape Province of South AfricaAnniza de Villiers
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Medical Research Council MRC, Tygerberg, South Africa
BMC Public Health 12:794. 2012..abstract:.. - Development and validation of a knowledge test for health professionals regarding lifestyle modificationWhadi-ah Talip
Nutrition and Dietetics Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Nutrition 19:760-6. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study showed that this test instrument identifies groups of health professionals with adequate training (knowledge) in lifestyle modification and those who require further training (knowledge)... - The National Food Consumption Survey (NFCS): South Africa, 1999D Labadarios
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 8:533-43. 2005..The aim of the National Food Consumption Survey (NFCS) in South Africa was to determine the nutrient intakes and anthropometric status of children (1-9 years old), as well as factors that influence their dietary intake... - Diet and mortality rates in Sub-Saharan Africa: stages in the nutrition transitionZulfa Abrahams
Centre for the Study of Social and Environmental Determinants of Nutrition, Human Sciences Research Council HSRC, Cape Town, South Africa
BMC Public Health 11:801. 2011..This paper examines a range of nutrition-related indicators for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and attempts to develop a typical model of a country in transition... - Estimating the burden of disease attributable to excess body weight in South Africa in 2000Jané Joubert
Burden of Disease Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town
S Afr Med J 97:683-90. 2007..To estimate the burden of disease attributable to excess body weight using the body mass index (BMI), by age and sex, in South Africa in 2000... - Development of a performance-rating scale for a nutrition knowledge test developed for adolescentsLindiwe Whati
CDL Unit, South African Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Cape Town, 7505, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 12:1839-45. 2009.... - Prevalence and determinants of stunting and overweight in 3-year-old black South African children residing in the Central Region of Limpopo Province, South AfricaRamoteme L Mamabolo
Medical Sciences Programme, University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 8:501-8. 2005..To determine the prevalence of stunting, wasting and overweight and their determinants in 3-year-old children in the Central Region of Limpopo Province, South Africa... - Review of the South African nutrition policy 1994-2002 and targets for 2007: achievements and challengesD Labadarios
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa
Nutrition 21:100-8. 2005..In this overview, the focus areas of the Integrated Nutrition Program are examined and critically discussed to determine whether targets planned for 2002 were met and how they are envisioned to change by 2007... - Nutritional disorders in Africa: the triple burdenD Labadarios
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa
Nutrition 21:2-3. 2005 - Development of a reliable and valid nutritional knowledge questionnaire for urban South African adolescentsL H Whati
Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
Nutrition 21:76-85. 2005..It is recommended that pupils at disadvantaged schools be assisted by trained interviewers when taking the test... - Health promotion services for patients having non-comminicable diseases: Feedback from patients and health care providers in Cape Town, South AfricaWhadi Ah Parker
Centre for the Study of the Social and Environmental Determinants of Nutrition, Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research Council, Private Bag X9182, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
BMC Public Health 12:503. 2012..abstract:.. - HealthKick: a nutrition and physical activity intervention for primary schools in low-income settingsCatherine E Draper
UCT MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Boundary Road, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa
BMC Public Health 10:398. 2010..This paper describes HealthKick, a school-based nutrition and physical activity intervention in primary schools in these settings aimed at reducing diabetes risk factors... - Dietary intake of pregnant women and their infants in a poor black South African communityD Mostert
University of Limpopo, Sovenga
Curationis 28:12-9. 2005..Most infants were exclusively breastfed, but the benefit of this was offset by the early introduction of solid foods having a low energy and nutrient density. By 6 months, the prevalence of stunting had more than doubled... - Nutrition related knowledge and practices of hypertensive adults attending hypertensive clinics at Day Hospitals in the Cape MetropoleH Becker
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Stellenbosch
Curationis 27:63-9. 2004..2% of participants, however, only 18.2% of black men had such a measurement. Uncontrolled blood pressure readings (> 140/90 mm Hg) were found in 61.2% of these patients at the hypertension clinics... - Association between insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 and leptin levels with nutritional status in 1-3-year-old children, residing in the central region of Limpopo Province, South AfricaR L Mamabolo
School of Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Science, North West University Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
Br J Nutr 98:762-9. 2007.... - Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus and the effect of weight on measures of insulin secretion and insulin resistance in third-trimester pregnant rural women residing in the Central Region of Limpopo Province, South AfricaR L Mamabolo
School of Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Science, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Diabet Med 24:233-9. 2007..To examine the prevalence of gestational diabetes in third-trimester pregnant women as well as to assess their insulin secretion and insulin resistance (IR)... - Stability of somatotypes in 4 to 10 year-old rural South African girlsK D Monyeki
Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of the North, Sovenga, South Africa
Ann Hum Biol 29:37-49. 2002..5 years group at which it was in the balanced ectomorph. The inter-age partial correlations for endomorphy and ectomorphy were high and significant, but insignificant with regard to mesomorphy...