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Abstract Micronutrients are essential for the healthy development of young children. Micronutrient deficiencies, common throughout the world, impair growth, development, behavior, and health. Because most micronutrient deficiencies accompany protein-energy malnutrition and environmental deprivation, it is difficult to isolate the effects
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Abstract Micronutrients are essential for the healthy development of young children. Micronutrient deficiencies, common throughout the world, impair growth, development, behavior, and health. Because most micronutrient deficiencies accompany protein-energy malnutrition and environmental deprivation, it is difficult to isolate the effects
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Mitigating micronutrient deficiency
Science, 2019Nutrient Delivery Micronutrient deficiencies that impair growth and contribute to disease remain leading public health concerns, particularly within the developing world. Although fortification of food can help treat deficiencies, heat used during cooking and other conditions can degrade vitamins, preventing adequate absorption.
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Obesity and Micronutrient Deficiencies
2014Obesity is a serious public health threat affecting millions worldwide in both the developed and developing world [1]. In 2009, approximately 40 % of US adults were classified as obese, with a body mass index (BMI) > 30.0 kg/m2 [2]. A myriad of genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors are associated with the global rise in obesity [3 ...
Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, Van T. Q. Nguyen
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[Micronutrient deficiency in obesity].
Revue medicale suisse, 2013Obesity is frequently associated with micronutrient deficiency due to unhealthy diet, lack of antioxidants and polyunsaturated fat on one side and abundance of saturated fat on the other side. The micronutrients play an important role in inflammation, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance and could influence the weight loss.
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Prevention of Micronutrient Deficiencies
1998Globally micronutrient malnutrition affects approximately 2 billion people and carries adverse sequelae of premature death poor health blindness growth stunting mental retardation learning disabilities and low work capacity. In late 1980s the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded a randomized trial of vitamin A supplementation in ...
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Biofortification’s contribution to mitigating micronutrient deficiencies
Nature FoodBiofortification was first proposed in the early 1990s as a low-cost, sustainable strategy to enhance the mineral and vitamin contents of staple food crops to address micronutrient malnutrition. Since then, the concept and remit of biofortification has burgeoned beyond staples and solutions for low- and middle-income economies.
Jie Li, Cathie Martin, Alisdair Fernie
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[Micronutrient deficiencies in osteoporosis].
Minerva medica, 2013Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by a progressive reduction of bone mass and a simultaneous deterioration of skeletal microarchitecture leading to a loss of bone strength, resulting in bone fracture as consequence of even very low traumas. Osteoporosis has only recently been accorded growing clinical and pathological importance for its impact on
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