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Life Sciences

1997

Malnutrition

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Food And Nutrition Situation In The Villa Santa Chacoma, Hancara, Hichuraya Grande And Pan De Azucar Communities Of The Ingavi Province In The Department Of La Paz, Bolivia 1996, Teresa Beatriz Iglesias Sandoval Jan 1997

Food And Nutrition Situation In The Villa Santa Chacoma, Hancara, Hichuraya Grande And Pan De Azucar Communities Of The Ingavi Province In The Department Of La Paz, Bolivia 1996, Teresa Beatriz Iglesias Sandoval

Theses and Dissertations

A diagnosis of the Food and Nutrition situation was made of the populations of the communities of Villa Santa Chacoma, Hancara, Hichuraya Grande and Pan de Azúcar, pertaining to the Ingavi province of the La Paz department. The principle objective was to: identify the Nutritional Food Situation of these communities, the secondary objectives were to: Identify the nutritional state of the inhabitants of the communities, identify the physical availability of food, identify the habits of breastfeeding and supplementary feeding, identify the level of ingestion, establish the consumption of food and identify the level of education of householders; to these ends …


Nutritional Situation Of The Communities Pan De Azucar, Hancara, Villa Santa Chacoma And Hichuraya Grande, Department Of La Paz, Ingavi Province, Bolivia 1996, Teresa Beatriz Iglesias Sandoval Jan 1997

Nutritional Situation Of The Communities Pan De Azucar, Hancara, Villa Santa Chacoma And Hichuraya Grande, Department Of La Paz, Ingavi Province, Bolivia 1996, Teresa Beatriz Iglesias Sandoval

Theses and Dissertations

The present research work is a transverse and descriptive study, which had as its principal objective to determine the Food and Nutritional Situation of the communities of Villa Santa Chacoma, Hancara, Hichuraya Grande and Pan de Azucar of the Ingavi province of the department of the La Paz. The most relevant part of the study was in finding the elevated percentage of infant population that presents an elevated prevalence and different levels of malnutrition. In adults what calls the attention is the physical exhaustion and the loss of muscle tissue, this situation was seen as a consequence of poverty, food …


Nutritional And Food Situation Of Five Communities Of Canaviri, Colina Blanca, Villa Arriendo, Puente Arriba And Pocohata, Department Of La Paz, Bolivia, Juana F. Moraima Gonzáles Tapia Jan 1997

Nutritional And Food Situation Of Five Communities Of Canaviri, Colina Blanca, Villa Arriendo, Puente Arriba And Pocohata, Department Of La Paz, Bolivia, Juana F. Moraima Gonzáles Tapia

Theses and Dissertations

The following work seeks to address the necessity that the inhabitants of the impoverished regions in Bolivia experience, as is the case of the highland region of Paceno, which is the understanding of their nutritional and alimentary situation. We studied the communities of Canavari, Pocohata, Colina Blanca, Puente Arriba, and Villa Arriendo de la Provincia Ingavi, in the province of la Paz.
The studied variable was the nutritional sta te, having as parameters: physical and economical availability of the food, food consumption, nutritional habits, biological usage of the food, basic sanitary conditions, and the educationallevel of the heads of family. …


Tests On The Elaboration Of Soybean Milk, Derivatives, And Industrial Feasibility Project, Ciro Pablo Kopp Valdivia Jan 1997

Tests On The Elaboration Of Soybean Milk, Derivatives, And Industrial Feasibility Project, Ciro Pablo Kopp Valdivia

Theses and Dissertations

This work was done with the purpose of evaluating different forms of soybean milk processing, the product acceptance by the public, and to do a study on the feasibility for the production of milk at a small scale to be used as a nutritional supplement in school breakfasts. The soybean milk was prepared with 2 varieties "(Cristalina and Doko)" and two periods of enzymatic inactivation (Before and After) of the grain mush. The "organoleptic" quality was evaluated through surveys and its posterior statistical analysis. Parameter quality was also considered just as did the microbiologic analysis and the conservation tests. The …