Objectives: Nutritional status of mothers in Ethiopia is currently a major public health concern. There are three key factors of maternal nutrition that could have an impact on human milk composition: Dietary intake, nutrient store, and alterations in nutrient utilization. The ai...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20906
Rosalind S. Gibson, Anna A. Wawer, Rachel Hurst, Scott Young, Martin R. Broadley, Allan D. C. Chilimba, Louise Ander, Michael J. Watts, Benson Chilima, Jellita Gondwe, Dalitso Kang’ombe, Alexander Kalimbira, Susan J. Fairweather-Tait, Karl B. Bailey & Edwin W. P. Siyame·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Soil-iron contaminant has the potential to contribute to total iron intakes, depending in part on food preparation practices, although whether contaminant iron joins the common non-heme iron pool and is available for absorption is uncertain. Therefore we compared diet...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20907
Objectives: Vitamin A and zinc are very important micronutrients for normal growth and development of a child. Vitamin A deficiency predisposes children to infectious diseases and poor growth. Zinc deficiency inhibits growth in children and reduces the child's ability to utilize...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20908
Objectives: Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) are serious public health problems in Nigeria especially in the under-five children. Iron is of great importance for adequate development of brain, which is completed by age 5. Iron deficiency has serious consequences...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20909
Objectives: An evaluation in 2010 of 850 processors involved for over a year in a Universal Salt Iodization (USI) support program indicated 36% of their salt as adequately iodized. The main reasons were identified as limited technical capacity of medium and large salt processors...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20910
Objectives: To identify nutritional and other factors contributing to the high levels of stunting in 2-5-year-old children from an impoverished South African community where liver is frequently eaten and vitamin A deficiency known to be absent. Methods: Dietary intake was assesse...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20911
Objectives: Pakistan's Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme (IDDCP) was launched in 1994 however, approximately half of Pakistan's population of 200 million are affected with IDD. The National Nutrition Survey in Pakistan revealed marked provincial variation; within Khyb...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20912
Objectives: 1. Assess factors that enhance or constrain implementation of nutrition interventions at national and sub national levels. 2. Analyze how direct nutrition interventions and multi sector approaches are implemented at national, regional, zonal and woreda levels. 3. Id...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20913
Objectives: Vitamin D insufficiency is endemic in western countries. Emerging evidence suggests this may be true also for countries with abundant sunshine. This study aimed to evaluate the vitamin D status and associated risk factors in a sub-sample of children from the South Eas...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20914
Objectives: Analyze the process, achieved coverages of the Burkina Faso'VAS program during the last ten years and ways forward to improve the quality of services and monitoring and evaluation system. Methods: An indepth analysis using the conceptual framework from MI and UNICEF (...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20915
Objectives: To characterize the changes in iron content through cereal processing for a better evaluation of iron intakes and its origin. Methods: Most frequently used processing methods of maize, millet, sorghum, barley, wheat and teff were followed (n≥3) in households in Benin,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20916
Objectives: Donated or subsidized KIO3 for Universal Salt Iodization (USI) programs supports iodization in resource-constrained contexts. However, sustainable and reliable supply systems are required. To address this, GAIN supported the establishment of financially viable supply...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20917
Objectives: The objective of this study was to identify gaps in the adequacy of nutrient intakes, and food-based recommendations to fill those gaps, from complementary diets of 6-23 mo old children in two agro-ecological zones of rural Kenya. Methods: In a high rainfall area of W...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20918
Objectives: In Bangladesh, zinc deficiency affects 45% of preschool children and 57% of women. As zinc deficiency is linked to child growth stunting, diarrheal disease, pneumonia, and increased risk of child mortality, large-scale programs for its prevention are required. Most ri...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20919
Objectives: The objective of this presentation will be to demonstrate how the combination of in vitro screening and an animal model can be extremely useful to develop and monitor Fe-biofortified crops, and evaluate meal plans in advance of human studies to determine if the crop i...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20920