Objectives: To estimate the micronutrient availability and adequacy of the food supply of Bangladesh and estimate the additional agricultural output needed to achieve nutrient adequacy. Methods: We estimated micronutrient availability of the food supply using an average of 5 year...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21247
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
Objective: To assess the usefulness of breast milk vitamin A (BMVA) for evaluating the impact of food-based vitamin A (VA) interventions. Methods: We assessed the effect of daily supplementation with 600 ug VA activity as either retinyl palmitate or β-carotene (BC) or 0 ug VA act...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21029
Stephen Vosti, Reina Engle-Stone, Justin Kagin, Joanne Arsenault, Robert Hijmans, Ryan Murphy, Erica Rettig, Ann Tarini & Kenneth H. Brown·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Micronutrient (MN) interventions are generally undertaken at national scale. New spatially disaggregated data on MN deficiencies in Cameroon suggest that subnational strategies may be more efficient, but methods to choose among alternative interventions are needed. ...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21244