Background: Adolescence is an essential stage in the human life cycle, a transition period between childhood and adulthood. These age group are risk groups for malnutrition, but they are not part of a target in many ...
Background: Central obesity nowadays is becoming a chronic non-communicable disease that is an indicator of mortality and morbidity. In Ethiopia obesity becomes a major public health problem. As far as we are concerned, ...
Background:Underweight continues as a major public health problem in Ethiopia and it increase the risk of infections, morbidity, mortality and impairing mental and cognitive development.There is paucity of evidence on ...
Back ground: Malnutrition is one of the world’s public health problem and more than half of all infant and child deaths were due to malnutrition directly or indirectly. One of the strategies to promote child health is ...
Background: Adolescent overweight/obesity is increasing worldwide at alarming rate in both developed and developing countries. The prevalence of overweight among adolescents was become an emerging problem in Ethiopia. In ...
ABSTRACT
Background: Shortage of diversified diets in lactating mothers is a severe problem in the
developing countries. Promotion of diverse diets is important to improving micronutrient
nourishment and adequate ...
Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease with a high prevalence and a growing concern worldwide. Dietary management is considered to be one of the cornerstones of diabetes care. There is a lack of data on the ...
Background: The planet earth’s population is aging at an incredible speed. Poor dietary practice is a major problem in elders. However, there is a scarcity of literature for dietary practice in elders in the study area. ...
Introduction: Preeclampsia is a major cause of fetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide and affects 2–8% of all pregnancies. Dietary factors can be determinative in the progress of the mechanisms for development ...
Introduction: Malnutrition is currently a significant global issue; it affects all people mostly in low and middle-income countries. The prevalence of double burden malnutrition at the household level has increased ...
Back ground: - Even though Breastfeeding for infants and young children provides the ideal food for healthy growth and development, use of infant formula feeding increased worldwide. In developing countries, 1.3 to 1.45 ...
Background: Globally, food insecurity in elders including pensioners is a major public health
challenge, particularly in low and middle-income countries. In Ethiopian metropolitan city including
Bahir Dar, there is no ...
Background: After six months, breast milk is no longer adequate to meet the nutritional needs of infants and children. Thus, additional complementary food should be started. Minimum acceptable diet (MAD) has tremendous ...
Background: An inadequate nutrient intake is a challenge among many 6-23 months of children in most developing countries. But, little study was conducted in Ethiopia regarding to nutrient intake inadequacy among in 6-23 ...
Background: Inadequate intake of both macro and micronutrients of lactating women was prevalent. But, little study was conducted in Ethiopia regarding to nutrient intake inadequacy of lactating women.
Objective: To assess ...
Background: Maternal inadequate nutrition intake has adverse outcomes to the pregnant women as well as the fetus. Inadequate intake of nutrient intake of pregnant women was prevalent. However, there is a limited information ...
Background: -Treatment of malnutrition is essential in addition to antiretroviral treatment for clients who are malnourished. To address the problem of malnutrition, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health implemented a therapeutic ...
Background: Adequate nutrition is essential in early childhood. However, child under-nutrition remains a widespread problem around the globe. Improving child nutrition and empowering women are two important and closely ...
Background: Malnutrition is a major threat to the health of HIV infected individuals and associated with increased risks of morbidity and mortality. The nutritional status (stunting, thinness) of HIV infected adolescents ...
Background:Food labels convey information about a packaged food from the production to consumer and help consumers to make healthier choices when choosing packaged foods and thereby reduce the risk for diet-related chronic ...