Nutrition for children

Nutrition and health counselling (NHC) was usually conducted in hospital settings with groups of mothers. Barriers to counselling were long queues and delays, long distances and high travel costs, the inapplicability of the counselling content, lack of spousal support, and a high domestic workload.

14p vishanshan 27-06-2024 1 1   Download

The objective of this paper is to report the fidelity of implementation (FOI) of iGrow Readers (a literacy-based curriculum that uses children’s books focusing on themes of healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors) that was delivered by Extension personnel to preschool children in the natural setting of 14 childcare centers through TTT approach.

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A 14 year old girl diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis, gastrointestinal bleeding, and esophageal varices underwent an assessment of her nutritional status using SGA, BAZ (Body Mass Index for age), and MUAC (Middle Upper Arm Circumference). Prior to transplantation, her SGA score was categorized as C, her BAZ was -1.63 standard deviations, and her MUAC measured 18.5cm.

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Ebook Bright futures nutrition (Third edition): Part 2 includes content: Nutrition questionnaire for infants, key indicators of nutrition risk for children and adolescents, screening for elevated blood lead levels, nutrition resources, federal nutrition assistance programs,… and other contents.

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A controlled intervention study to evaluate the effect of formula supplementation on nutritional status and health of preschool children aged 36- 59 months was completed in Ninh Binh province in August 2023 with 110 subjects. The intervention group (55 subjects) used formula supplementation twice daily for 2 months and the control group (55 subjects) used a regular diet.

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Ice cream is absolutely one of the most popular and favorite food product for Palestinian children and adults. However, it is one of the most favorable foods for bacterial growth and potential source of food poisoning. The main objective of this work was to determine the bacteriological quality of packaged ice cream sold in Gaza city.

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Orphan and vulnerable children are at high risk for malnutrition due to poor economic status, less medical and social care. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the nutritional status and associated factors among Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Gondar City, Ethiopia.

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Global studies have shown that under-nutrition, results for at least half of all childhood death worldwide and it has identified as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children under five years of age. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of risk factors of under-nutrition among children aged one to five years in the Batticaloa Medical Officer of Health area in Eastern province of Sri Lanka.

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Malnutrition is one of the major public health challenges in developing countries especially those experiencing security instability. Not much is known of the nutritional status of displaced children in Iraq. The objective of this study was to assess the nutritional status of internally displaced children in Dream city-Salaheddin-Iraq to provide a validated baseline information for further humanitarian responses to help those children.

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Breastfeeding practices of mother are effective way for reducing infant morbidity and mortality. Improper breastfeeding along with inadequate complementary feeding are the main reasons for malnutrition among the children in Bangladesh.

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The prevalence of Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) remains high in Uganda among children under 5 years and women of reproductive age. The readily bio-available sources of vitamin A such as liver, organ meats and fish oils are too expensive for the majority of the population to consume regularly.

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Although different combinations of nutrition interventions are employed, most are insufficient to reduce stunting significantly. This study aimed to draw current evidence to reduce stunting among under 5 years children from randomized controlled trials. Eligible randomized controlled trials met inclusion criteria were included.

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Obesity among children is rising steadily in Cameroon and its association with dyslipidemia and consequently cardiovascular risk has become a concern for medical researchers. This study aims at determining the prevalence of dyslipidemia and also quantifying the effects of obesity assessed using BMI, waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) on changes in atherogenic lipid levels in children.

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Nurturing care, including adequate nutrition, responsive caregiving and early learning, is critical to early childhood development. In Nepal, national surveys highlight inequity in feeding and caregiving practices for young children.

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Human nutrition: A health perspective" provide readers with content about: the application of nutritional knowledge; pregnancy and lactation; infants, children and adolescents; adults and the elderly population; diet and coronary heart disease; diet and cancer; challenges to nutritional status; optimizing nutrition; public health nutrition and health promotion;... Please refer to the ebook for details!

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This research was designed to produce a nourishing peanut energy bar and jaggery balls with commercial value especially for malnourished children to meet their body development requirements. Among the Various possible approaches to tackle the problem of malnutrition, food based approach is considered the most sustainable one, despite being a long term strategy. Hence, exploring the possibility of value addition to traditional products like energy bars, laddo, mathari and biscuits could be a better option to enhance the intake of micronutrients.

8p chauchaungayxua10 18-03-2021 11 1   Download

In aspect of social and educational context research, growing time of child can be considered as three stages with difference of educational age and the nutritional care. After being born to 3 years old (36 months), young child is supported nutritional source from breastfeed supplementing formula milk, digestible food for babies. During this stage, the child growth is affected by mother and nursing cares at home or baby boarding house.

8p cothumenhmong9 07-01-2021 14 4   Download

. The objectives of the present study are to investigate the demographic profile and nutritional status among under-five children living in rural areas of Udaipur district of Rajasthan. This study was conducted among 224 rural children (boys and girls) aged 3-5 years. Anthropometric assessment for underweight, wasting and stunting was calculated based on age, weight and height measurements. As per WHO classification, underweight, stunting and wasting among the age group of 3- 5 years children was 37.54, 46.41 and 16.73 percent respectively.

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Angola is one of the southern African countries with the highest prevalence of anaemia. Identifying anaemia determinants is an important step for the design of evidence-based control strategies.

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The food and nutrition security of the population has been the matter of concern world over. Problem in attaining food and nutrition security is prominent particularly in developing world. Protein calories malnutrition is major nutritional problem of the world. To treat malnutrition among the pre-school children the formulation of locally based protein rich product is must hence attempt was made to formulate soy based food product such as soy-poha ladoo.

4p quenchua6 15-06-2020 10 1   Download