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FIDR is Making the First Cambodia’s Dietary Reference Intakes for Children
FIDR and Ministry of Health have been working together to formulate dietary reference intakes (DRIs) for school-age children. DRIs are the standard of amount of energy and nutrients desirable for promoting the citizens’ health. There has been no such a detailed criteria for meals in Cambodia.
Late in November 2014, FIDR started research to construct the DRIs at randomly-selected 2000 students of 135 public primary, middle, and high schools over the country. The surveyors conducted measurement of height and weight, and oral survey about their foods.
It was the most difficult to collect information about students’ dietary history because it required students to answer exact amount and kinds of food they had eaten on the day before the survey. In order to help students answer the questions, FIDR made a book which contains the real-size pictures of major foodstuffs and menus in Cambodia. Sixteen surveyors joined in the project team to carry out this research, and they are visiting villages all around Cambodia with the book on their hands.
The nationwide survey will be completed in the middle of fiscal year 2015. After analyzing the survey results, the DRIs will be compiled.
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