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Functional Foods to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk
By Megan Tempest, RD
Most people eat functional foods every day, such as when they sprinkle iodized salt on a hot baked potato, enjoy a hearty sandwich made with nutrient-enriched bread, or drink a cold glass of calcium-fortified orange juice. While all foods are “functional” to an extent, the term implies a health benefit beyond the mere provision of calories or nutrients.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the Academy) describes functional foods as whole, fortified, enriched, or enhanced foods that have a potentially beneficial effect on health when regularly consumed at effective levels as part of a varied diet. Concerning cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, certain foods may reduce harmful LDL cholesterol in the blood, raise levels of good HDL cholesterol, lower blood pressure, stabilize heart rhythms, and even protect arterial lining. Jeannie Gazzaniga-Moloo, PhD, RD, a national spokesperson for the Academy, believes that while functional foods are no magic bullet, “There certainly appears to be benefits to adding them to your daily diet to prevent cardiovascular disease.”
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), CVD kills more than 2,200 Americans each day, which equates to roughly one death every 39 seconds. In 2008, about 150,000 of the Americans who died because of CVD were younger than 65. The AHA also reports that, on average, someone in the United States dies of a stroke every 40 seconds. In 2008, one in nine death certificates in the United States mentioned heart failure. However, between 1998 and 2008, the rate of deaths attributable to CVD declined by 30.6%. During the same time span, the death rate due to stroke fell by 34.8%.1
While your patients and clients may know that functional foods can meaningfully impact their cardiovascular health, the reality is that they may not know how to incorporate these foods into their diet. Additionally, they may struggle with perceived barriers to consuming heart-healthy foods, such as expense, taste, and availability.2 According to a 2011 survey conducted by the International Food Information Council regarding top health concerns, Americans are most interested in learning about foods and beverages that can help prevent CVD, with 46% of Americans citing cardiovascular disease as their top health concern.2
This continuing education article will examine the major categories of functional foods that may prevent CVD and share tips RDs can use to help their patients and clients incorporate them into their diet.
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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry
in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health
conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing
protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing
varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which
institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder
pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be
adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara
Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data
Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and
stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency.
The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be
useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig
enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks
which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder
pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy.
An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand
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