Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Mengatasi masalah Kesehatan dan Gizi Anak

Mahasiswi Akademi Gizi Poltekes Jakarta, sesekali mengusap keringat di keningnya. Namun panas lembab udara Desa Jungkat, Kecamatan Siantan, Kabupaten Pontianak, Propinsi Pontianak Kalimantan Barat tak cukup mengendurkan semangatnya saat melakukan tugasnya, pekan lalu.

Ia bahkan terlihat cukup sabar saat mengukur, menimbang dan memeriksa Tiara, salah satu balita di desa itu yang menjadi sampel penelitiannya. Sesekali Rida tampak membujuk Tiara yang kadang tampak malu-malu menggelayut pda ibundanya. "Senang-senang saja kok, karena ibu-ibu kader Posyandu di sini sangat membantu,"  kata perempuan berkerudung ini.

Rida dan empat periset lain adalah tim peneliti untuk riset tentang kondisi gizi anak Indonesia, Studi South East Asia Nutrition Survey (SEANUTS) yang diprakarsai oleh Frisian Flag Indonesia. Sesuai namanya penelitian ini tak hanya di Indonesia, tapi serentak juga di Malaysia, Thailand dan Vietnam.




Memang bicara soal kondisi kesehatan Indonesia sudah punya data dari Riset Kesehatan Dasar 2007 dan 2011. Riset itu hanya berdasarkan antopometri saja. Belum lagi masih bercampur dengan soal sanitasi, penyakit menular dan tidak menular dan sebagainya, kata Kepala Riset Persatuan Ahli Gizi Indonesia, dokter Sandjaya.

Penelitian antopometri, mengukur seperti berat badan, tinggi badan, tinggi badan dalam posisi duduk, lingkar lengan tengah atas, lingkar kelapa, ketebalan kulit luar, dan sebagainya.

Sementara SEANUTS, menurut ahli gizi itu, lebih komprehensif dan terkonsentrasi pada anak-anak usia 6 bulan sampai 12 tahun. Seperti identifikasi tingkat konsentrasi serum lipid dan serum mikronutrien termasuk zat besi, vitamin B12 A dan D.



Juga diteliti pola asupan makanan, aktifitas fisik, kepadatan dan kematangan tulang, pertumbuhan, fungsi kognitif, dan kekurangan konsumsi.
Semua anak juga menjalani tes darah untuk mengukur status zat besi, kadar vitamin B, A, dan D, lipid dan analisa DHA atau asam lemak, kata dokter Sandjaya.

Ditiap negara SEANUTS bermitra dengan lembaga independen setempat. Menurut Corporate Research and Development Manager Frisian Flag Victoria Valentina, ada kecenderungan usaha memerangi masalah gizi menghadapi beban ganda. Mulai dari soal kekurangan zat gizi makro seperti pada kekurangan energy protein dan kekurangan mikronutrien seperti vitamin A, yodium, dan zat besi. Namun, di sisi lain, terjadi peningkatan kasus gizi berlebih.

Gizi kurang atau buruk, menurut dokter Sandjaya pasti akan mempengaruhi tingkat intelegensia anak. Pada anak gizi buruk kecerdasan bisa turun dan hingga 11-13 poin dan tak bisa dikembalikan lagi, katanya. Diperkirakan 2-3 persen anak Indonesia, mengalami masalah tersebut. Bisa diperkirakan kita akan bisa mengalami lost generation, ujar Sandjaya.

Riset kesehatan dasar 2010 menyebut, ada 17,9 persen anak balita Indonesia mengalami gizi kurang atau gizi buruk. Sementara anak gemuk ada 14 persen. Secara nasional jumlah anak yang mengalami pendek tertinggi terjadi pada usia 6-12 tahun, yaitu 35,8 persen.



"Pemerintah bukan tidak tahu, survei sudah dilakukan, tapi ada celah yang masih ada, kata Sandjaya. Nah, riset SEANUTS berusaha memperoleh pengetahuan bukan hanya status gizi anak-anak tapi juga pola makan. Periset di Pusat Penelitian Pengembangan Gizi Bogor ini yakin bahwa status gizi anak juga berkaitan dengan perilaku dan status sosial ekonomi keluarga.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

How to Grow Your Blog 200% Faster


stand outI’ve been blogging for a little over a year now, I’ve been providing my readers with great and unique content on a consistent basis and I’ve been doing all within my power to grow my blog. It was only a matter of time before I started getting a lot of traffic to my blog, but deeply in me, I knew something was wrong with my blog.
I tried all I could to figure out what was wrong but I just couldn’t figure it out. Since I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my blog on my own I hired an expert to critique my blog.
After reading the expert’s critique of my blog I saw exactly what I was doing wrong, and even though I have only implemented a few tips provided by this expert I have seen my blog start to grow significantly.

Stand Out!

How many times have you heard that word?
I’m certain you’ve heard it more times than you can remember, and that’s exactly why so many of us fail to see how important it is.
In my case, I loved the internet marketing and make money online niche, and even though I have more expertise when it comes to writing and guest blogging and even though I knew I would do well in those niches I was still trying to teach people internet marketing and making money online. The result is that my blog looked like thousands of other blogs in the make money online niche and the effect of my message was neutralized.
I’m not trying to say it is bad to blog in the internet marketing or make money online niche, and I’m not trying to pass a message across that any niche is bad at all. What I’m trying to say is that you need to know what makes you different from others. What differentiates you from the thousands of other blogs in your niche? What makes you different and unique? What makes readers want to read your blog over the others?
It might be one simple thing that makes you stand out, it might be more than one, but no matter how minute it is, you need to have a point of difference for your blog.
I know you might be expecting more, or a particular secret that is yet to be revealed, but there is no secret and the only way to triple your blog growth rate is to stand out.

Monday, May 30, 2011

TOSHIBA Portege R830-2006UR (i5) - Red


Detail Specifications
 
PlatformNotebook PC 
Processor TypeIntel Core i5 Processor 
Processor OnboardIntel® Core™ i5-2410M Processor (2.30 GHz, Cache 3MB) 
ChipsetIntel® HM65 
Standard Memory4 GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz SDRAM 
Max. Memory8 GB (2 DIMMs) 
Video TypeIntel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD 1GB (shared) 

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Customizing the Links bar



Did you know that you can customize the Links bar in Windows XP SP2, and Windows Vista? You can add, remove, or rearrange shortcuts to your Favorites and folders of Favorites. Customizing the Links bar gives you one-click access to your favorite folders, and webpages.
Here's how:
To enable the Links bar in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista
•Right-click on the Windows Taskbar. Click on Toolbars, and then click Links to select it (a checkmark will be displayed beside it)
You will now see "Links" added just to the left of the system tray on the taskbar.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

NFC and Smartphones

"Many of the major smartphone platform providers -- BlackBerry, Symbian, Android, Bada, WP7 and others -- are members of the NFC Forum," the Forum's Arnold pointed out. "We look forward to their contributions as we continue to develop specifications to move the technology forward and to ensure that NFC is globally interoperable."
Google in February introduced an update to Android 2.3, also known as "Gingerbread," that would give it NFC capabilities.
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), which was reportedly working on an NFC feature for its iOS mobile operating system, has apparently pulled back from plans to introduce that capability, at least for now.
RIM introduced two BlackBerries with NFC capabilities at BlackBerry World earlier this month -- the 9900 and the 9930.

lg light leak blamed for ipad 2 shortage

Some of you may remember earlier rumblings about light leakage and yellowing spotted on the iPad 2 LCD panel.
A report today from DigiTimes may have pinpointed the culprit. The publication cites unnamed sources as saying LG's display division had to pull back on iPad 2 screen production because of light leakage issues that emerged during manufacturing.
The problem reportedly arose at http://jurianto123.blogspot.com sixth-generation production line in Gumi, South Korea, and all but confirms widespread complaints of the complication, which became a widely circulated story online and clogged Apple's support forums.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

How to Submit a Blog to Technorati RSS Feed Directory

To claim a blog and submit it to the Technorati RSS feed directory, one must create a new post and insert a claim token.  That is what this post is and the claim token is  pub-0052233956470309
It took me more than a few minutes to figure this out.  You begin with setting up an account and creating a profile at Technorati.  From there you “claim” your blog.  Then the token is mailed to you and you post it on your blog to await their evaluation.
After evaluation and your blog is approved and added to the Technorati Directory, you can remove the post.  Whew!
The value of submitting your blog to RSS Directories is the backlink juice you receive from being linked to strong authority sites like Technorati.
I hope this might help others who have found it difficult to learn how to submit a blog to Technorati’s RSS feed directory.