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