CANDIREC
Cameroon's Nutrition and Dietetics Research Center
About CANDIREC
The Cameroon Nutrition & Dietetics Research Centre(CANDIREC) focuses on evidence-based nutrition research intended to enhance the quantity and quality of human life.
CANDIREC encourages high profile researchers to come together to seek sustainable solutions in nutritional issues affecting the African continent, taking into consideration the nutritional, agricultural and socio-cultural differences that exists within and between individual countries.
Researchers
CANDIREC researchers are co-opted based on their vision and track record, and have access to the centre's research equipment’s and human resources.
They are provided with seed funding from the J & A Oben Foundation to develop areas of research that are in line with the foundation's objectives.
Researchers are also provided with logistic support to apply for grants.
Objectives Of CANDIREC
Considering our firm belief that life starts at conception, and the realization that the life expectancy of Africans has slightly increased in the last few years, CANDIREC has as objectives to:
- Provide pregnant women with appropriate nutritional advice so as to ensure fetal health
- Encourage optimal nutrition and hygiene of nursing mothers to promote breast feeding as well as optimal nutrition to non-breast-fed babies
- Encourage good feeding and life-style practices among school children
- Encourage the use of local / indigenous foods in the fight against malnutrition in collaboration with the private sector
- Encourage physical exercise as a means of fighting non-communicable diseases and attaining an appropriate nutritional status
- Promote research in Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals
- Collaborate with Universities and other research centers in the training of junior researchers in nutrition related fields
- Propose evidence-based innovative solutions to governments in the fight against malnutrition
- Carry out contract work in the areas of nutrition, health, and diet formulation
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