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Keynote Speech: Micronutrient Malnutrition [PDF]
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2003 Im delighted to have the opportunity to be with you tonight and grateful that you have taken the time to attend this very important colloquium. For the record I should probably recognize at the outset that each one of you here tonight has a deeper knowledge of this subject than I do.
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Public Health Nutrition, 2023 Objective: To summarise available evidence on the nutritional status of school-age children and adolescents (5–19 years) from seven global regions and on interventions implemented to improve malnutrition in this population. Setting: Global.
Stephanie V Wrottesley +9 more
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Global malnutrition overlaps with pollinator-dependent micronutrient production [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Pollinators contribute around 10% of the economic value of crop production globally, but the contribution of these pollinators to human nutrition is potentially much higher. Crops vary in the degree to which they benefit from pollinators, and many of the most pollinator-dependent crops are also among the richest in micronutrients essential to human ...
Chaplin-Kramer, R +7 more
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Programs Against Micronutrient Malnutrition: Ending Hidden Hunger [PDF]
Annual Review of Public Health, 1994 An adequate intake of the micronutrients iodine vitamin A and iron is of immense importance to global development. Prevention of these nutrient deficiencies is potentially the most important achievable international health goal of the decade conceivably exceeding the impact of the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s.
Maberly, G.F. +4 more
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Micronutrient Deficiencies and Thyroid Function in Children with Protein-energy Malnutrition
The Journal of Pediatric AcademyProtein-energy malnutrition (PEM) remains a significant public health problem in childhood and is frequently accompanied by multiple micronutrient deficiencies and metabolic alterations.
Utku Dönger, Osman Fırat Çalışkan
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Annals of Hepatology, 2021 Malnutrition among patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) is a common complication with significant prognostic implications for patients with liver cirrhosis.
Ashley Bloom +4 more
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Journal of the Pakistan Medical AssociationThis brief communication highlights the importance ofmalnutrition in primary practice. Malnutrition may bemasked, or may not be obvious (hidden hunger, i.e.,micronutrient deficiency, sarcopenic obesity,lipokathexis).
Sanjay Kalra +2 more
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Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2014 Micronutrient malnutrition affects over three billion people worldwide, especially women and children in developing countries. Increasing the bioavailable concentrations of essential elements in the edible portions of crops is an effective resolution to ...
Zhi-en PU +10 more
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Biofortification: a new tool to reduce micronutrient malnutrition.
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2011 Background The density of minerals and vitamins in food staples eaten widely by the poor may be increased either through conventional plant breeding or through the use of transgenic techniques, a process known as biofortification. Objective
Bouis, Howarth E. +4 more
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The Journal of Nutrition, Health and AgingBackground and objective: Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies represent significant concerns in geriatric care, leading to adverse health outcomes in older adults.
Kübra Yilmaz +3 more
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