Frontiers in Nutrition, 2016 Breastfeeding provides the ideal food during the first 6 months of life. Complementary feeding is the process starting when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient, the target age being between 6 to 23 months.
Motuma A Abeshu +2 more
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Zinc Biofortification in Food Crops Could Alleviate the Zinc Malnutrition in Human Health
Molecules, 2021 Micronutrient malnutrition is a global health issue and needs immediate attention. Over two billion people across the globe suffer from micronutrient malnutrition.
Subhashisa Praharaj +8 more
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Maximizing the benefits and minimizing the risks of intervention programs to address micronutrient malnutrition: symposium report. [PDF]
, 2016 Interventions to address micronutrient deficiencies have large potential to reduce the related disease and economic burden. However, the potential risks of excessive micronutrient intakes are often not well determined.
Bruins, Maaike J +5 more
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Conflicting interests in the pathogen-host tug of war : fungal micronutrient scavenging versus mammalian nutritional immunity [PDF]
, 2014 Funding: The authors are supported by the European Research Council (STRIFE project funded on grant number ERC-2009-AdG-249793, http://erc.europa.eu). AJPB is also supported by the Wellcome Trust (grant numbers 080088, 097377, www.wellcome.ac.uk) and the
Ballou, Elizabeth R +3 more
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The impact of integrated infant and young child feeding and micronutrient powder intervention on feeding practices and anemia in children aged 6-23 months in Madagascar [PDF]
, 2017 This study assesses the impact of an integrated infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and micronutrient powder (MNP) intervention on children's risk of anemia and IYCF practices in Madagascar.
Brown, Amal Tucker +7 more
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Determinants of Dietary Adequacy Among School Age Children in Guraghe Zone, Southern Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2019 Dietary diversity (DD) is a validated proxy indicator of micronutrient adequacy among different age groups including infants, children and women. This study assessed level of dietary adequacy and its associated factors among school age children in ...
Abdu, A. O. (Abdu) +1 more
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miR-155 and miR-122 Expression of Spermatozoa in Obese Subjects
Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 Obesity is characterized by mild chronic inflammation that is linked with impaired iron homeostasis. Studies in human and murine show that there is a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance via the gametes in obesity; however, there is little ...
Paulina López +7 more
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Toward eradication of B-vitamin deficiencies : considerations for crop biofortification [PDF]
, 2018 'Hidden hunger' involves insufficient intake of micronutrients and is estimated to affect over two billion people on a global scale. Malnutrition of vitamins and minerals is known to cause an alarming number of casualties, even in the developed world ...
Strobbe, Simon +1 more
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Metabolic engineering of micronutrients in crop plants [PDF]
, 2016 Micronutrient deficiency is a widespread phenomenon, most prevalent in developing countries. Being causally linked to the occurrence of a range of diseases, it affects billions of people worldwide. Enhancing the content of micronutrients in crop products
Blancquaert, Dieter +3 more
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High dose multiple micronutrient supplementation improves villous morphology in environmental enteropathy without HIV enteropathy: results from a double-blind randomised placebo controlled trial in Zambian adults [PDF]
, 2014 PMCID: PMC3897937This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...
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