Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Evidence on whether diversifying farm production leads to improved household dietary diversity and nutrition remains inconclusive. Existing studies analyzing the link between production diversity and dietary diversity are mainly based on cross-sectional ...
Lemlem Teklegiorgis Habtemariam +5 more
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Dietary Diversity Practice and Associated Factors Among Infants and Young Children in Haramaya Town, Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2017 Optimum child feeding is crucial for growth, development, and better health in later life. Dietary diversity is a critical part of the feeding practices.
Assefa, N. (Nega) +2 more
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Gut microbiome diversity and high-fibre intake are related to lower long-term weight gain [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Cross-sectional studies suggest that the microbes in the human gut have a role in obesity by influencing the human body's ability to extract and store calories.
A.M. Valdes +5 more
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Dietary Diversity and Dietary Quality: Associations With Body Mass Index Change in Diverse Adults With Age [PDF]
Innovation in Aging, 2020 Abstract Dietary Diversity (DD), a variety element of a healthful diet, can be measured by count, evenness and dissimilarity scores. This study explored the associations of DD, and dietary quality measured by Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) score, with annualized Body Mass Index (BMI) change in a diverse sample ...
Kuczmarski, Marie +7 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In this study, we found that human cervical‐derived adipocytes maintain intracellular iron level by regulating the expression of iron transport‐related proteins during adrenergic stimulation. Melanotransferrin is predicted to interact with transferrin receptor 1 based on in silico analysis.
Rahaf Alrifai +9 more
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Dietary contribution of wild edible plants to women's diets in the buffer zone around the Lama forest, Benin : an underutilized potential [PDF]
, 2014 Rural populations in developing countries face food insecurity and malnutrition despite being surrounded by extraordinary biodiversity. The international community increasingly recognizes the role of agro-biodiversity and Wild Edible Plants (WEPs) in ...
Assogbadjo, Achille Ephrem +4 more
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Household food insecurity and children dietary diversity during the COVID-19 outbreak
AcTion: Aceh Nutrition Journal, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic raises the likelihood of food insecurity and affects the nutritional status of children. This study aims to examine the relationship between household food poverty and children's dietary diversity. The cross-sectional study has done
Suryana Suryana +5 more
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Food insecurity and associated factors among HIV-infected individuals receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy in Jimma zone Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2012 Background: In resource limited settings, many People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) lack access to sufficient quantities of nutritious foods, which poses additional challenges to the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART).
Alemseged, Fisehaye +3 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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EFFECT OF CROP DIVERSITY ON RURAL FARMING HOUSEHOLDS’ DIETARY DIVERSITY IN KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
Journal of Asian Rural Studies, 2020 Dietary diversity is crucial particularly in developing world where diets consist of mainly starchy staples and lack nutrient rich foods for improved dietary diversity and quality, the importance of crop diversity in nutrition and health needs to be ...
Opeyemi Gbenga +3 more
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