Issue 26 of AJFAND is here. In it, you will find a commentary by Dr. Professor Macharia Waruingi, a US-based Kenyan writing on mHealth, as a way of getting healthcare to all, especially to the resource-poor in remote areas of Africa. We have a variety of articles that you will find interesting.

We continue to carry the call from Professor Gordon Robertson for chapter contribution to an online book on food safety, and the announcement of the IUNS congress in Bangkok, 5th -9th October 2009. I wish to inform also through this Foreword of AJFAND issue 26 that Kenya won the bid to host the 2010 ANEC (African Nutritional Epidemiological Conference) from October 4th – 8th in Nairobi.  Please mark this in your calendar and watch out for more information. We wish to welcome you to Nairobi then for what promises to be a truly exciting event.

“Eating healthy” will bring you some facts about diabetes, a disease that is closely linked to diet both in terms of causality and management. We would like to extend great thanks to all our reviewers and welcome the new ones; and to those who have come forward to discuss collaboration with a view to assisting AJFAND financially, we appreciate your thoughtfulness.

In this issue, we have the following articles:

Editorial: Prof. Ruth Oniang'o
Food Prices are NEVER reasonable for the poor

• Potential role of street foods as micronutrients source among low income groups in Nairobi, Kenya.
  Oyunga-Ogubi Mary et al.

• Determinants of the right of access to food in sub-Saharan Africa.
  Ijaiya Gafar et al.

• Drying and browning of date pulp during hot air and microwave drying.
  Benamara Salem et al.

• Antioxidant and free radical scavenging activities of edible weeds.
  Kumar Sunil and Kumar Dinesh

• Genotoxic effects of dithane, malathion and garden ripcord on onion root tip cells.
  Asita Okorie and R Makhalemele

• Effect of pre-cooling and heat treatment on antioxidant enzymes profile of mango and banana.
  Madhusudhan Basavaraj et al.

• Effects of ethanol and/or chloroquine with low protein dietary intake on some biochemical parameters in male rats.
  Ejikeme Mbajiorgu et al.

• Effect of processing methods and storage environment on moisture adsorption characteristics of ginger (Zingiber Officianale)
  Irtwange Simon et al.

• Effects of germination and fermentation on the quality characteristics of maize/mushroom based formulation.
  Ingbian Emmanuel et al.

• Physicochemical characteristics and pollen spectrum of some north-east Algerian honeys.
  Azzedine Chefrour et al.

 

Ruth Oniang'o
Founder Editor-in-Chief, AJFAND