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Alcohol intake and micronutrient density in a population in transition: the transition and health during urbanisation in South Africa (THUSA) study

Serfontein, Marita; Venter, Christine; Kruger, Annamarie; Pisa, P.T.; MacIntyre, Una (Medpharm, 2010)

Eat dry beans, split peas, lentils and soya regularly: a food–based dietary guideline

Venter, C.S.; Vorster, H.H.; Ochse, R.; Swart, R. (MedPharm Publications, 2013)

The objective of this paper is to review recent scientific evidence to support the food-based dietary guideline (FBDG): “Eat dry beans, split peas, lentils and soya regularly”. In this review, legumes are synonymous with ...

The effect of ethanol and its metabolism on fibrinolysis

Pieters, Marlien; Vorster, Hester H.; Jerling, Johann C.; Venter, Christine S.; Kotze, Retha C.M.; Bornman, Elsabe (Thieme, 2010)

Have milk, maas or yoghurt every day: a food–based dietary guideline for South Africa

Vorster, H.H.; Wenhold, F.A.M.; Wright, H.H.; Wentzel-Viljoen, E.; Venter, C.S.; Vermaak, M. (MedPharm Publications, 2013)

A national working group recently reached consensus that a guideline message for milk consumption should form part of the set of revised food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) for South Africa. The message was formulated ...

An introduction to the revised food-based dietary guidelines for South Africa

Vorster, Hester H.; Badham, J.B.; Venter, C.S. (MedPharm Publications, 2013)

Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) are short, positive, science-based messages that aim to change the eating behaviour of the general population towards more optimal diets that meet energy and nutrient requirements, ...

Measuring micronutrient intakes at different levels of sugar consumption in a population in transition: the Transition and Health during Urbanisation in South Africa (THUSA) study

MacIntyre, Una E.; Venter, Christine S.; Kruger, Annamarie; Serfontein, Marita (MedPharm Publications, 2012)

Objective: The objective was to investigate the absolute micronutrient intake and the possibility of micronutrient dilution of added sugar in the diets of an African population in nutritional transition. Design: A ...

Nutritional genetics: the case of alcohol and the MTHFR C677T polymorphism in relation to homocysteine in a black South African population

Nienaber-Rousseau, C.; Pisa, P.T.; Venter, C.S.; Ellis, S.M.; Kruger, A.; Moss, S.J.; Melse-Boonstra, A.; Towers, G.W. (Karger, 2013)

Background/Aims: It is unknown whether the effect of alcohol consumption on homocysteine (Hcy) is modulated by the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T. We explored this hypothesized effect by analyzing ...

Prevalence of selected intermediate risk factors for non-communicable diseases in an apparently healthy Indian community in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Naicker, Ashika; Venter, Christine S.; Ellis, Suria; MacIntyre, Una E. (Springer, 2017)

South Africa, burdened with the emerging chronic diseases, is home to one of the largest migrant Indian population, however, little data exists on the risk factors for non-communicable diseases in this population. The aim ...

Prevalence of zinc deficiency among primary school children in a poor peri-urban informal settlement in South-Africa

Samuel, Folake O.; Venter, Christine S.; Egal, Abdulkadir A.; Oldewage-Theron, Wilna H.; Napier, Carin E. (AOSIS, 2010)

This cross-sectional study assessed the risk of zinc deficiency in randomly selected children, aged between 7 and 11 years, living in a poor, peri-urban informal settlement in South Africa. Dietary intake of 149 respondents ...

Professor HH Vorster (1943-2020)

Jerling, Johann; Kruger, Salome; Smuts, Marius; Venter, Christine (Cambridge Univ Press, 2020)

Professor HH (Esté) Vorster was a former Director of the Centre of Excellence for Nutrition in the Faculty of Health Sciences of the North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom, South Africa. In 1989, she obtained a DSc ...