Improving dietary intake to prevent anemia in adolescent girls through community kitchens in a periurban population of Lima, Peru

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 130, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2000, Pages

  Creed Kanashiro, Hilary M ^a   Uribe, Tula G ^a   Bartolini, Rosario M ^a   Fukumoto, Mary N ^a   López, Teresa T ^a   Zavaleta, Nelly M ^a   Bentley, Margaret E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Dietary iron; Iron deficiency anemia

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADOLESCENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON INTAKE; IRON STORAGE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERU;

EID: 0033958659     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.2.459s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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