Fortified fish sauce : a novel means of improving thiamin status in rural Cambodia
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2016-04
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CA
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Poor thiamin status is common among women of childbearing age in rural and urban Cambodia. The Cambodian diet consists largely of thiamin-poor, polished white rice and contains few thiamin-rich foods. Thiamin-fortified fish sauce is an efficacious means of improving dietary thiamin intake and biochemical thiamin status, and as such highlights potential to reduce mortality from infantile beriberi. The disease is totally preventable, resulting from maternal thiamin deficiency. Fortification of both salt and fish sauce could allow for the eradication of infantile beriberi in Cambodia.
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IDRA DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARDS, THESIS