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Cooking clue to human dietary diversity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 For primates, humans have pretty peculiar diets. Most often, our food intake includes large amounts of starchy plant food, together, particularly in developed countries, with considerable quantities of vertebrate muscle and other soft tissues. No other large primate eats like this.
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Nutrition, 2021 We sought to develop and evaluate the relative validity of a dietary diversity questionnaire (DDQ) that reflects food-group diversity, food variety, and micronutrient adequacy among New Zealand women.A cross-sectional study included New Zealand women (Auckland based; ages 16-45 y, n = 101), completing a 7-d DDQ and 4-d weighed food record (reference ...
Rozanne Kruger +4 more
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Aspects of Dietary Diversity Changes across Adulthood in Racially Diverse Adults [PDF]
Nutrients, 2020 Knowledge of various aspects of dietary diversity (DD)—an essential healthful dietary component—across adulthood is limited. This study examined three DD aspects over time in racially diverse adults. Participants were from the National Institute on Aging, Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study.
Rita Rawal +7 more
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Examining the Dietary Diversity of Children in Niger [PDF]
Nutrients, 2021 Malnutrition is a major public health concern in Niger. The stunting rate in children in Niger is over 50%, one of the highest in the world. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine children’s dietary diversity (CDD) and the maternal factors that impact CDD. A total of 1265 mother–child pairs were analyzed.
Egbuonye, Nafissatou Cisse +3 more
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Dietary diversity and child malnutrition in Ghana [PDF]
Heliyon, 2017 The health of children in Ghana has improved in recent years. However, the current prevalence rates of malnutrition remain above internationally acceptable levels. This study, therefore, revisits the determinants of child health by using Ghana's Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey to investigate the effect of infant feeding practices on child health.
Frempong, Raymond Boadi +1 more
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Nutritional Status, Dietary Intake and Dietary Diversity of Landfill Waste Pickers
Nutrients, 2022 The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe the nutritional status, dietary intake and dietary diversity of waste pickers in South Africa, a socioeconomically vulnerable group who makes a significant contribution to planetary health through salvaging recyclable material from dumpsites.
Elizabeth C. Swart +5 more
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Dietary Diversity in Nepal: A Latent Class Approach [PDF]
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2021 Background: Nutritional status has important implications for labor productivity, lifetime earnings, and country-wide economic development. Dietary diversity is an important contributor to nutrition. Objective: To identify how patterns of food consumption are related to dietary diversity and to measure the potential for policy interventions to ...
Gerald Shively, Alecia Evans
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Oral iron exacerbates colitis and influences the intestinal microbiome [PDF]
, 2018 Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with anaemia and oral iron replacement to correct this can be problematic, intensifying inflammation and tissue damage.
Burkitt, M D +10 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 This paper investigated whether there are any regional-level differences in factors associated with farmer household dietary diversity using the Food Consumption Score (FCS), in two states of India: Haryana and Gujarat.
Sukhwinder Singh +2 more
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Dietary effects on human gut microbiome diversity [PDF]
British Journal of Nutrition, 2014 The human gut harbours diverse and abundant microbes, forming a complex ecological system that interacts with host and environmental factors. In this article, we summarise recent advances in microbiome studies across both Western and non-Western populations, either in cross-sectional or longitudinal surveys, and over various age groups, revealing a ...
Xu, Zhenjiang, Knight, Rob
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