Introduction: Undernutrition among children is a major public health problem in developing countries including Ethiopia. Undernutrition among children is a critical problem because its effects are long lasting and go beyond ...
The major target of wheat research and extension system of Ethiopia is increased production and productivity of the crop. Little information is available with regard to end-use quality of wheat varieties grown in the ...
Background: Surgical patients are high risk of malnutrition due to extensive catabolic reactions and increased nutrient requirement after surgery. Although nutritional care is the focus of peri-operative nursing care, it ...
Healthcare wastes generated in Hospitals from medical activities have not given sufficient attention. In developing countries, healthcare wastes are still handled and disposed indiscriminately creating an immense threat ...
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, ...
Background:Dietary diversity has been considered a potential 'proxy' indicator to reflect nutrient intake adequacy. It is the measure of food consumption that reflects individual or household access to a variety of foods. ...
Background. Abdominal obesity (AO) is a medical problem in which excess fat has accumulated in the abdomen to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health and/or increase medical problems. AO is associated with ...
Background: Anemia is a public health problem affects low, middle and high income countries has adverse effects on health consequences and impacts on social and economic development. Globally, 38.2% of pregnant women were ...
Background: Optimal cognitive, emotional development and physiological function in children and adolescents requires access to food of adequate quantity and quality at all stages in life. Recurrent food insecurity as ...
Background: Dietary Diversity is an essential element of diet quality. It also indicates
the presence of individual and household food diversity and consumption of adequate
nutrient. Lactation is one of the most complex ...
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: Low birth weight is one of the public health problems in the globe and it is an indicator of the health of the new born and the mother. Low birth weight newborn have a greater risk of illness or death, need ...
Introduction; Undernutrition denotes insufficient intake of energy and nutrients to meet an individual's needs to maintain good health. Undernutrition is a common problem among peoples living with HIV, which creates a ...
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: Childhood underweight is internationally recognized as an important public health
problem and its devastating effects on human performance, health, and survival are well
established. Children can spend the ...
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 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, ...
Background: Adolescent nutrition is important to the health of girls and is relevant to maternal nutrition. Especially, pregnancies in adolescence have a higher risk of complications and higher mortality for mothers, infants ...
Introduction: A food which is considered as a taboo is a food that is strictly forbidden in the community, for health, cultural or spiritual reasons. Food taboos are known from all human societies and may be found in ...
Background: Overweight and/or obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in the body that may affect health and pose major risk for serious diet-related chronic diseases, including Type 2 diabetes, ...