THE EYE EDITORIAL PROFILE AND PERSPECTIVES

THE EYE EDITORIAL PROFILE AND PERSPECTIVES

The EYE ON Ethiopia And the Horn of Africa is a policy, Think-Tank and Review organ which also publishes the Eye on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa Resource Yearbook and the EYE Statistical Briefings, both published annually. All are published by a syndicate of African scholars and Africanists for the uplift of the image of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa at large. It is legally and editorially independent but functionally affiliated to the HADAD (Horn of Africa Democracy and Development International Lobby).

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Prof. Kinfe Abraham

Founder and President, Horn of Africa Democracy and Development (HADAD) International Lobby.

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The EYE Editorial Board

Dr. Z. Kwenga, Senior Research Fellow, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Dr. K. Abraham, President, International Institute for Peace and Development (EIIPD), Ethiopia.

Dr. B Philipson, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Edi Maloca, Director, South African Institute of African Studies, South Africa.

Dr. Ali Abdi

Senior Economist and Representative of the IMF, Dar es Selaam, Tanzania.

Senior Managing Editors

Mrs. Emma Eyob

Mrs. H. Carina

Ms. A. Holst

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Manager Liaison Office and Marketing Representative

Mr. Eyasu Solomon

(Tel. 251-011-553 19 55, 251-0911-223 25 29)

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Perspectives

. . . The calcium and vitamin D study also had its critics. When it was designed, calcium was considered so important that researchers thought it would be unethical to tell women in the control group to stop taking supplements. In the end, the test subjects and the placebo group were both taking in roughly the same amount of calcium. So when the final results showed little difference in the fracture rate between the two groups, some scientists blamed the study design. And there was a second problem. The amount of vitamin D they were given is considered inadequate today. Most doctors still recommend calcium supplements if women can’t get enough in their diets. “It was a disappointment that it was not better designed,” says Joan Lappe, Professor of medicine at the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University. She and her colleagues are worried that the public is getting the message that calcium and vitamin D don’t matter. . . .

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