The paper tries to highlight the importance of a woman’s health, especially in her reproductive years, as the health of the whole nation and its development is largely dependent on the same. The paper also points out towards different parameters of a woman’s reproductive health and the possibilities of improving upon them. The women’s health and the health of the progeny and consequently the health of the society and the nation should be seen as the corollary of the family planning strategies and the ante-natal care given to a woman of that place. It has been authenticated by a study carried out in Srinagar city, in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. The levels of sensitization towards the issue were found quite good and so was the scope of improvisations for the same.

Bacterial blight is one of the major diseases which inflect heavy losses in sesame production. This experiment was initiated to screen sesame germplasms against bacterial blight under field condition. The experiment has been conducted at Metema station on 2015 and 2016 cropping seasons. A total of 70 genotypes were evaluated and simple plot in one replication in a plot size of 5m length and with a recommended spacing of 10 cm x 40 cm between plant and row respectively were used. Diseases and agronomic data were collected and subjected to descriptive statistical analysis using SAS software. In both seasons genotype WARC-063, WARC-082, WARC-073, WARC-074, WARC-076 and Abasena were moderately resistant and high yielders. These genotypes seem to have some significant stability for resistance of infection with X. campistris pv sesame. Breeders should consider them as a source of resistance in breeding programme.

Infants and growing children require eight Essential amino acids for healthy growth and wellbeing. The amino acids must be at optimum values in order to satisfy their metabolic requirements. Breadfruit (v.Decne) seed is a widely consumed legume in tropics and subtropical regions of the world. In Nigeria it is staple and an important source of dietary nutrients for adult, infants and children. The study aimed to identify the roasting conditions of temperature and time at 500g seed quantity that would yield the optimum contents of eight essential amino acids in flour incorporated into the diets of infants and growing children for the alleviation of malnutrition among children. Experimental roasting used the factorial design. The essential amino acids content of bread fruit seed flour of different treatment condition were determined using Technicon sequential multi-sample acid analysis. Results showed that both raw and processed flour contained amino-acids essential for infants and growing children. Analysis of amino acids showed retention of the eight essential amino acid for infant and children. Roasting temperature and roasting time had significant (p < 0.05) reductive effect on evaluated amino-acids. Summation of the evaluated amino acids showed average ranges of 22.56 to25.61 g/16gN,17.14 to 23.86g/16gN and 18.56 to 19.90 g/16gN respectively for flour samples of seeds roasted at 140°C,160°C,180°C at 35,40,45 mins. The low values of some essential amino-acids evaluated indicated the detrimental effect of higher temperature processing on African breadfruit seeds. Processing African breadfruit seeds into flour at 140 and 160°C would yield four of atleast 76.0% of the RDA for essential amino acids for humans. Results identified 140°C-40min-500g as the best process variables combination for adequate supply of essential amino acids in infant and children diets. Roasting severely depleted the content of tryptophan of the evaluated flour samples.The flour of breadfruit (v.Decne) seeds is a good source of amino acids supplement for infants and growing children. Which should be introduced to mothers in developing nations.

Background: Modernization of Malaysians in many field especially in health sectors enhances the life expectancy of Malaysians. Malaysia is anticipated to become an ageing nation in 2030 accompanied by the rapid increase in the population of elderly globally. In Malaysia, the elderly constituted about 8.2% (2.4 Million) out of a population of 30 million people in 2012 and they will make up over 15% of the population by year 2030. Aim: Our objective is to assess the factors affecting the quality of life of elderly among the population in Bandar Maharani, Muar, Johor. Methodology: A descriptive, cross sectional study design based on the multi stage random sampling, residents aged above 60 years old and above was randomly chosen. Data was collected using self administered questionnaires that covered 4 domains which were the physical, psychological, social and environmental domain with 2 questions on general health satisfaction and quality of life. Data was analysed using PASW statistics student version 18. Results: It was found that most of the respondents rated “ neither poor nor good” quality of life and “ neither dissatisfied nor satisfied” health satisfaction. The environmental domain has the highest scores of quality of life, followed by social domain and also the physical domain. The least scores of quality of life was for the psychological domain. Conclusion: The study showed that although the respondents rated “ neither poor nor good” for the quality of life, but looking into the domain wise quality of life, it was evident that some domain has the highest contribution of quality of life such as the environmental domain and some was weakly associated such as the psychological domain. Other domains such as social and physical can futher be strengthened in order to improve the quality of life.

Objective: This research is to explore the effects of ship noise on the physiological status of yellowfin sea breams after short-time stimulations. Methods: The noise of the Pearl River Estuary was collected by the sound acquisition system, then the yellowfin sea breams were stimulated by the sound replay system, and finally the blood samples were tested every 24 hours. Results: The concentrations of red blood cells, white blood cells, lymphocytes and the hemoglobin in the experimental group are all higher than those in the control group after noise exposure. Conclusion: A short-time noise exposure can induce the stress response and promote the immune response to the adverse environment, and at the same time, excessive immune response will increase the death rate of yellowfin sea breams.

Caffeinated beverages represent an important part of modern food for many societies. This study was conducted to determine the extent to which caffeinated beverages affect minerals in the human body. The results of questionnaire analysis illustrating that 70% of the study samples highly used to drink caffeinated beverages for more than three years with 1-3 bottles daily and cola was the popular drink. Urine samples were taken from those female students who highly consume caffeinated beverages comparing with female students who do not drink caffeinated beverages. The results indicated that caffeine and phosphoric acid has negative effect on minerals of human body especially calcium and phosphorus. The amount of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and chloride increased significantly (p = 0.05) in urine of female students who highly consume caffeinated beverages compared to female students who was not. While zinc showed no significant difference (p = 0.05) on both groups.