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A randomized controlled trial in Japanese children found that type A influenza rates in children taking vitamin D supplements were about 40% lower than in those taking a placebo; there was no significant difference in type B influenza rates.
We are still a few years away from clinical trials that explore the possible link between vitamin D supplements, higher vitamin D levels, and reduced risk of disease.
So, when a community gets access to childhood immunization, it is often not long before it also gets access to other services, such as neonatal and maternal care, nutritional supplements, malaria prevention measures, and sexual and reproductive health and education.
Do Antioxidant Supplements Work?
This has stimulated interest in the possible preventive potential of antioxidant supplements.
Indeed, consumption of antioxidant supplements in developed countries has become widespread.
As with any therapeutic intervention, the most convincing and direct proof of the preventive efficacy of antioxidant supplements requires randomized, controlled clinical trials.
So far, many studies have been conducted to verify the supposed beneficial effects of antioxidant supplements.
Some clinical trials were terminated prematurely because harmful effects of antioxidant supplements were observed.
There are several possible explanations for the negative effect of antioxidant supplements.
Whereas our diets typically contain safe levels, highly concentrated antioxidant supplements can be hazardous.
Moreover, antioxidant supplements in pills are synthetic and biochemically unbalanced compared to their naturally occurring counterparts.
There are still many gaps in our knowledge of the mechanisms of action of antioxidant supplements.
Basic issues concerning the efficacy and safety of consuming relatively high doses of antioxidant supplements need to be resolved.
So the optimal source for antioxidants is diet, not supplements.
Recommended measures include providing essential vitamins and minerals through enriched foods and supplements; promoting breastfeeding and nutritious complementary feeding for weaning babies; and treating severely malnourished children with therapeutic foods such as specially fortified peanut butter.
Scaling up these programs – and adding folate and zinc supplements – to ensure provision for 80% of South Asians and sub-Saharan Africans would cost about $347 million per year, but would yield a massive $5 billion from improved future earnings and reduced healthcare spending.
Weighing the mother-to-be, and weighing and measuring the baby, are important tools with which to frame educational messages, and educational sessions can also be used to provide micronutrient supplements and de-worming intervention.
Moreover, private schools are not seen as mere supplements to public schools, but as fully-fledged alternatives, so they need not offer something different.
Elsewhere, various versions of the Basel 1 and Basel 2 accords on international banking standards are in operation, sometimes with ad hoc supplements.
With the right policies in place, the incremental food demand created by these transfers, as well as by school meals programs and nutrition supplements for mothers and infants, could create opportunities for small-scale farmers to expand their output and improve their livelihoods.
RANKING WORLD INVESTMENTS1.Micronutrient supplements for children (vitamin A and zinc)2.The Doha development agenda3.Micronutrient fortification (iron and salt iodization)4.Expanded immunization coverage for children5.Improving agricultural technology6.De-worming and other school-based nutrition programs7.Lowering the price of schooling8.Increasing and improving girls’ education by paying mothers to send them to school9.Community-based nutrition promotion10.
Oral rehydration salts and zinc supplements not only drastically reduce mortality rates; they are also inexpensive to scale up.
Its advertising base is a little heavy on vitamin supplements, since pharmaceutical companies are extremely constrained in how they can advertise.
The debate about individual income supplements versus general public services has become lively everywhere.
Should we, say, buy carbon offsets, or donate to a charity providing micronutrient supplements?
By contrast, $10 spent on Vitamin A supplements would achieve more than $170 of benefits in health and long-term prosperity.
Overall, we can typically best help through direct interventions, including micronutrient supplements, fortification, biofortification, and nutritional promotion.
In 1795, the authorities of Speenhamland, a village in Berkshire, authorized a means-tested sliding scale of wage supplements.
The supplements that families received varied with the number of children and the price of bread.
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