The present study was conducted to assess the impact of nutrition education on nutritional knowledge of 50 rural school going children (10-12 years) and their mothers for two months at 15 days interval in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India. The nutritional knowledge was studied using pre-tested questionnaire. Pre-scores of nutrition knowledge indicated that most of the mothers had inadequate kn...

Improving skills for accessing and utilizing diet/nutrition information is important for preventing non-communicable diseases and frailty among elderly people. With the rapidly increasing number of elderly people in the world, promoting nutrition literacy among them is a pivotal health policy for maintaining and promoting health. This article describes the barriers and catalysts of nutrition li...

This paper aims at briefly specifying an analytical approach for the understanding of diet and nutrition in Islam and its effects on the promotion of health within the society. The Qur'an and other Islamic literature on Hadiths (Traditions), Figh (Jurisprudence) and traditional medicine are studied. The specifications of the Islamic food, the significance of the use of a diet compatible w...

Research in diet, nutrition, and cancer is multidisciplinary. As a result there are many factors to consider in the conceptualization and design of experiments that may not be readily apparent to someone entering this field. In this article issues are identified that should be considered in the development of hypotheses about the effects of diet and nutrition on the carcinogenic process and the...

this paper aims at briefly specifying an analytical approach for the understanding of diet and nutrition in islam and its effects on the promotion of health within the society. the qur’an and other islamic literature on hadiths (traditions), figh (jurisprudence) and traditional medicine are studied. the specifications of the islamic food, the significance of the use of a diet compatible with th...

OBJECTIVE This paper examines socioeconomic, demographic, epidemiological and nutrition changes that have occurred in Chile in the last decades using concepts of epidemiological and nutrition transition, and discusses policies related to nutrition. DESIGN AND SETTING This is a descriptive, population-based study to analyse changes in the Chilean diet and nutrition situation including some of ...

OBJECTIVE The purposes of this paper are to describe the unique aspects of the nutrition transition in South Korea, including trends in food consumption and obesity, patterns of morbidity and mortality; to focus on efforts to maintain the traditional diet in the midst of rapid economic growth and the introduction of Western culture; and to provide insights for other countries. DESIGN We analy...

Background: Imbalanced diet, as it may cause micronutrient malnutrition has been known as a causal factor for several chronic diseases. Several studies in Iran have shown that some micro-nutrient deficiencies are prevalent and of high concern. Minerals such as calcium and iron can supply physical and mental health as well as survival, and growth development. In this study, Nutrient density anal...