Background:Iron/folic acid supplementation is feasible and cost effective strategy to control and prevent anemia in pregnancy. In Ethiopia,the national data suggests that from all pregnant women supplemented with these ...

Background: Globally, the most common cause of anemia is iron deficiency, which is responsible for about half of anemia cause in pregnancy, and it estimated that in developed countries 38% are iron depletion. In developing ...

Introduction: Adolescent nutritional problem is common throughout the world. They have to happenstance a sequence of serious nutritional trials not only affecting their growth and development but also their livelihood as ...

Background: Maternal chronic energy deficiency remains a persistent problem and an important contributor to morbidity, mortality and poor birth outcomes in developing countries. Despite this, there is scarcity of data on ...

Background: Dietary diversity is the consumption of variety of food items over a reference time. It is one of the important indicators to assess the nutrient adequacy and diversity of diet. However, little is known about ...

Background: Dietary diversity is defined as the number of different foods or food group consumed over a given reference period. In developing countries, dietary diversity is a challenge for rural and urban communities ...

Background: Breakfast provides the necessary energy and nutrients to achieve an optimal physical and mental performance. It is also feasible to suggest that skipping breakfast impacts children‟s overall development. ...

Osmotic dehydration is a simultaneous mass transfer process which mainly promotes the flow of water molecules from the food to osmo‐active solution and some migration of solutes from the solution into the food, thus ...

Background:The number of children who are left orphaned in the world due to loss of parents has increased in recent years. Ethiopia contains and struggles to care for millions of orphaned children. Orphanages may lack ...

Background – Dietary diversity has long been recognized as a key element of high quality diets. Poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in the first 2 years of age are among major causes of childhood malnutrition, ...