The objective of this study was to define the effects of various cooking and re-heating methods (pan roasting, steaming, oven grilling and micro-waving) on the cholesterol and formation of cholesterol oxidation products in beef loin during storage at 4°C. Raw samples showed lower total cholesterol content than cooked products sampled during storage for 6 d. The following cholesterol oxidation p...

Background Household air pollution (HAP) due to biomass cooking fuel use is an important risk factor for a range of diseases, especially among adult women who are primary cooks, in India. About 80% of rural households in India use biomass fuel for cooking. The aim of this study is to estimate the attributable cases (AC) for four major diseases/conditions associated with biomass cooking fuel use...

This study investigates the dark side of biomass technology innovations on households’ subjective well-being (SWB) in Uganda. The concerns households moving away from intangible cultural cooking heritages that they have preserved for a long time. These are important to understand as contribute policy decisions sustainable society transformation (sustainability transitions) clean energy sector. ...

BACKGROUND Although the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified various indoor air pollutants as carcinogenic to humans, few studies evaluated the role of household ventilation in reducing the impact of indoor air pollutants on lung cancer risk. OBJECTIVES To explore the association between household ventilation and lung cancer. METHODS A population-based case-cont...

Air pollution is increasingly recognized as a significant contributor to global health outcomes. A methodological framework for evaluating the global health-related outcomes of outdoor and indoor (household) air pollution is presented and validated for the year 2005. Ambient concentrations of PM2.5 are estimated with a combination of energy and atmospheric models, with detailed representation o...

In Bangladesh, iron deficiency is the most common cause of anemia and remains a significant public health concern. Being a high anemia prevalent country, numerous efforts have been made to confront the issue especially among women and children by both local and international actors. Though the situation has substantially improved in recent years, a staggering number of adult women are currently...

BACKGROUND Over the last decade, considerable efforts have been made to identify cassava cultivars to improve the vitamin A nutritional status of undernourished populations, especially in northeast Brazil, where cassava is one of the principal and essentially only nutritional source. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the total carotenoid, β-carotene, and its all-E-, 9-, and 13-...

This study was conducted to evaluate the traditional meat cooking methods, beef topside cuts were used in the experiment and divided into four groups, and four different cooking methods were done. A-roosting, B-frying, C-boiling, and DBabiker (1981) methods as a control method which is used as one of cooking loss % methods in meat. Sample prepared from cooked meat for meat chemical analysis. Pr...

We examine the control of air pollution caused by households burning wood for heating and cooking in the developing world. Since the problem is one of controlling emissions from nonpoint sources, regulations are likely to be directed at household choices of wood consumption and combustion technologies. Moreover, these choices are subtractions from, or contributions to, the pure public good of a...

This paper uses the third round of the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS III) to study the relationship between housing quality and resident health. Poisson and negative binomial regressions estimate the number of days ill in a 30-day time interval as a function of, among other things, measurable housing characteristics. We show that some, but not all, of these characteristics adversely af...