Background Dietary diversity has been recognized as a significant component of high-quality diets for children’s growth and development. Poor infant and young child feeding practices in the first one thousand days of age is the major contributor of ...
Dejenu Assefa, Tefera Belachew
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Minimum Dietary Diversity for Adolescents: Multicountry Analysis to Define Food Group Thresholds Predicting Micronutrient Adequacy among Girls and Boys Aged 10–19 Years [PDF]
Giles T Hanley-Cook
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Projected health effects of realistic dietary changes to address freshwater constraints in India : a modelling study [PDF]
Acknowledgements This study forms part of the Sustainable and Healthy Diets in India project supported by the Wellcome Trust's Our Planet, Our Health programme (grant number 103932). LA's PhD is funded by the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on
Agrawal, Sutapa +8 more
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The study assessed infant and young child feeding practices and associated factors among 6–23-month-old children in order to inform ongoing and future programs and projects in Bobo-Dioulasso area, in Burkina Faso. Information on child feeding practices and determinants in urban areas is limited in Burkina Faso.
Hien, A. +9 more
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Engagement in agriculture protects against food insecurity and malnutrition in peri-urban Nepal [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Urbanization is occurring rapidly in many low- and middle-income countries, which may affect households’ livelihoods, diet, and food security and nutritional outcomes.
Carletto +42 more
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The Minimum Dietary Diversity For Women Indicator Can Be Extended To Children And Adolescents aged 4-15 Years As A Proxy Population Indicator For Good Micronutrient Adequacy Of Diets In Low- and Middle-Income Countries [PDF]
Loty Diop, Aulo Gelli, Lieven Huybregts
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Household-level factors associated with relapse following discharge from treatment for moderate acute malnutrition [PDF]
Factors associated with relapse among children who are discharged after reaching a threshold denoted ‘recovered’ from moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) are not well understood.
Maleta, Kenneth M +7 more
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Role of Mothers\u27 Nutritional Knowledge, Nutritional Factors on the School Performance [PDF]
A cross sectional study was carried out to investigate the effects of mothers\u27 nutritional knowledge, health and nutritional factors and socio-economic parameters on school performance among class five students of University Laboratory School, Dhaka ...
Akther, F. (Farhana) +5 more
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Background. Dietary diversity is one of the key elements of diet quality. Even though different measures were taken to increase dietary diversity feeding practice in Ethiopia, the problem still remains high.
Ataklti Gebretsadik Woldegebriel +5 more
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Achieving dietary recommendations and reducing greenhouse gas emissions : modelling diets to minimise the change from current intakes [PDF]
Acknowledgements We are grateful to Mr Hubert Ehlert for extending the work on the coding for the linear programming and to Mrs Jennifer Loe for preparing the dataset matching the food consumption data with the GHGE data.
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