Background: Infant and young child feeding is a cornerstone of care for childhood
development. Optimal Infant feeding practice is one of the challenging issues on prevention of
mother to child transmission ...
Background: Malnutrition is the condition that results from an imbalance between dietary intake
& requirements. Many factors can cause under nutrition, like human immune virus infection and
it commonly affects all ...
Background: Prevention and treatment of diseases connected to diet are major global concerns.
With an accurate assessment of dietary consumption and eating behavior, it should be possible to
prevent and ...
Garlic and Ginger are two of the most versatile medicinal plants having a wide spectrum of biological
activities due to the presence of large number of bioactive compounds. However, no more researches
were done on ...
Due to the existing energy crisis and scarcity of conventional supplies of fossil fuels, there is a
strong desire for the production of bio-ethanol from sustainable biodegradable waste as an
alternative energy source. ...
Background: Exclusive breastfeeding refers to feeding of an infant only breast milk for the first
6 months of life but nothing else even water with the exception of medicine. About 41% of
global under-five deaths ...
Cities are ecosystems: - they are open and dynamic systems, which consume, transform
and release materials and energy. Air pollution is a basic problem in today‘s world and
exposure to ambient air pollution has ...
Background: A lack of dietary diversity is a severe problem among poor populations in the developing
world including Ethiopia. Diets of most households in the rural areas mainly composed of cereal -based
grains foods ...
Background: Globaly11% of a population is living in hunger and affected with all form of
malnutrition due to different factors. About 14 million adolescent girls worldwide become
lactating mothers each year and more ...
It is well known that water is the primary and very indispensable sources for all life existed
on the earth including human beings, and the contamination of water by heavy metals and
other contaminants can cause ...
Food safety is the assurance that food will not cause harm to the consumer’s health when it is
handled or eaten according to its intended use. Food safety problems are occurred around the
world especially in the ...
One of the most promising lignocellulosic biomasses for the production of biofuels is coffee
husk. Bioethanol production from pure coffee husk is still limited by its high process cost and
low hydrolysis and fermentation ...
Background: Inappropriate complementary feeding practice of children aged six to
23 months is a worldwide concern since the period of this stage is a milestone for the
future of the human being. Despite increased ...
Background: HIV/AIDS and malnutrition effects are interrelated and exacerbate each other
in a vicious cycle. HIV/AIDS prevalence in Amhara region is more than the national one and
studies in Bahir Dar city do not ...
Background: The term diabetes mellitus describes a metabolic disorder of multiple
etiologies characterized by chronic hyperglycemia with disturbance of carbohydrates, fats
and protein metabolism resulting from defects ...
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 ...
Partial replacement of fossil fuels by biomass based alternative fuels is considered as a possible option for household applications. These are becoming a primary choice due to diminishing petroleum reserves and increasing ...
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, ...