News tagged with undernutrition
Undernutrition in childhood, adolescence or young adulthood increases risk of heart disease later
A study of women who were children, teenagers or young adults during the Dutch famine in 1944-45 has shown that undernutrition, particularly in the adolescent years, is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Aug 25, 2011 |
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No link between economic growth and child undernutrition rates in India
Economic growth in India has no automatic connection to reducing undernutrition in Indian children and so further reductions in the prevalence of childhood undernutrition are likely to depend on direct investments in health ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized
Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual "hunger season," according to an article published this week in open access journal PLoS Medicine. The hu ...
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Western fast food, waistlines surge in India
Every lunchtime at a McDonald's on the corner of one of central New Delhi's biggest streets, queues of hungry young patrons, often four-wide and unruly, snake towards the counters.
Oct 09, 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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New approach suggested for monitoring child health in developing countries
In a paper published in the January issue of the journal Economics and Human Biology, a team of applied economists including William A. Masters, a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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1 in 4 Palestinian children goes without breakfast
The eating habits of children and adolescents are studied in one of the Abstracts published Online by The Lancet, with the disturbing findings that one in four children miss breakfast, one in 10 is anaemic, and one in 17 ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Researchers discover additional benefit of vitamin A
Vitamin A is critical to maternal health and child survival, yet in most developing countries Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of blindness and increased child mortality. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...
May 12, 2010 |
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Families caught in the middle
When the high cost of health care forces families to forgo paying for basic household expenses, such as rent, utilities or food, children's health suffers, according to research to be presented Sunday, May 2 at the Pediatric ...
May 02, 2010 |
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A report card on DFID: The Lancet calls for a post-election independent review to protect its successes and fix its prob
The lead Editorial in this week's Lancet focuses on global health within the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID)—its mixed successes and failures to date, the challenges it faces with the possib ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Independent public health evaluations could save lives
New child survival programs must engage evaluation teams from the start to identify the major causes of child mortality in intervention areas and to ensure that appropriate resources are available to scale up coverage and ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children
(AP) -- Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don't get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem ...
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Can parasites cause anemia and undernutrition in Northern Rwanda?
Northern Rwandan inhabitants infected with more than two species of parasitic worm are more likely to be underweight than those with just one or with no infection, according to new research published September 15 in the open-access ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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