News tagged with malnutrition
Drought returns to Sahel, bringing hunger
(AP) -- For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not taken now, the region known as the ...
Jan 22, 2012 |
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Nepal's child malnutrition 'silent emergency'
Padma Biswokarma covers her young son with a blanket as she breastfeeds, a broad smile spreading across her face.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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'Most poor people don't live in the poorest countries'
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Oxford University study of 1.65 billion of the world's poor shows that over twice as many live in 'middle-income' countries as in 'low-income' countries.
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists find genetic trigger that makes stem cells differentiate in nose epithelia
University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have discovered a genetic trigger that makes the nose renew its smell sensors, providing hope for new therapies for people who have lost their sense of smell ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Tackling malnutrition in older patients on the wards
Experts led by Newcastle University are designing and building a system aimed at combating malnutrition in older people in hospitals.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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New research on body parts' sensitivity to environmental changes
Research by a team of Michigan State University scientists has shed new light on why some body parts are more sensitive to environmental change than others, work that could someday lead to better ways of treating ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Hidden hunger from wildlife loss
How do you balance the need for biodiversity conservation and human health? For Christopher Golden, '05, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Harvard University Center for the Environment, that question is at the core ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Researcher finds elderly lose ability to distinguish between odors
Scientists studying how the sense of smell changes as people age, found that olfactory sensory neurons in those 60 and over showed an unexpected response to odor that made it more difficult to distinguish specific smells, ...
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Nov 10, 2011 |
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Students coax yeast cells to add vitamins to bread
Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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When it comes to charitable giving, people respond to their immediate emotions, study says
(PhysOrg.com) -- When considering giving money to humanitarian crises people often donate in response to events that grab their immediate emotions, according to a recent study by researchers at the University ...
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Oct 05, 2011 |
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Direct link found between diet ingredients and gut microbes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Globally, industrialized countries face an epidemic of obesity while poor nations continue to grapple with pervasive malnutrition, particularly among children. Increasing evidence suggests ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Afghanistan worst place, Norway best to be a mom: study
Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said.
May 03, 2011 |
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Child malnutrition caused by more than lack of food
Giving poor families land on which to grow crops has been shown to improve child nutrition. New research also shows that giving families non-agricultural land and better housing also is beneficial for children's growth and ...
May 01, 2011 |
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Twin dangers: Malnutrition and obesity
Even as developing countries continue to struggle with the old scourge of malnutrition, the West’s obesity epidemic is spreading into such nations, creating twin nutritional problems that demand attention ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Human taste cells regenerate in a dish
Following years of futile attempts, new research from the Monell Center demonstrates that living human taste cells can be maintained in culture for at least seven months. The findings provide scientists with a valuable tool ...
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a general term for a medical condition caused by an improper or inadequate diet and nutrition. A number of different nutrition disorders may arise, depending on which nutrients are under or overabundant in the diet.
The World Health Organization cites hunger as the gravest single threat to the world's public health. Malnutrition is, by far, the biggest contributor to infant and child mortality, present in half of all cases. Malnutrition, in the form of iodine deficiency, is the most common cause of mental impairment, reducing the world's IQ by an estimated billion points. Improving nutrition is widely regarded as the most effective form of aid.
For more information about Malnutrition, read the full article at
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