Approximately one-third of the food produced globally—close to 1 billion tons—ends up as waste, and, at same time, more than 800 million people are undernourished, which makes Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, halve waste by 2020, rather ambitious if not illusory. In present study, data on in households, service sector, and retail sector used indicators for 78 countries that analyzed applying ...

Associations of 293 mothers' work for earnings and child-care arrangements with the anthropometric status of their children were examined in urban Guatemala. It was hypothesized that during the period of life in which growth often falters (8 through 35 months), maternal employment could be beneficial for children. Informal workers tended to be poorer, less educated, and have more undernourished...

Breakfast consumption is associated with positive outcomes for diet quality, micronutrient intake, weight status and lifestyle factors. Breakfast has been suggested to positively affect learning in children in terms of behavior, cognitive, and school performance. However, these assertions are largely based on evidence which demonstrates acute effects of breakfast on cognitive performance. Less ...

MALNUTRITION is still widely prevalent in children in many underdeveloped countries of the world, and a certain number show manifestations of vitamin A deficiency. Electroretinography in cases of vitamin A deficiency in children and adults has been extensively studied by Dhanda (1952-1956). As vitamin A deficiency occurs mainly in children with severe malnutrition, it was considered desirable t...

Relationships between anthropometric dimensions (stature, weight, arm and calf circumferences, and four subcutaneous skinfolds), and motor performances (dash, standing long jump, throw for distance and grip strength) were considered in 348 mild-to-moderately undernourished Senegalese children 5-13 years of age (168 boys and 180 girls). Weights and statures are, on average, below the National Ce...

Nutritional status particularly in relation to the possible risk of morbidity and mortality in children has long been recognised as a field of major concern. A cross-sectional study was undertaken with 1280 under five children in the urban slum community of Chetla, the field practice area of All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health, Calcutta, during 1991 to identify their nutritional stat...

On World Food Day—October 16, 2002—the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued its annual assessment of world food insecurity in its annual report entitled “The State of Food Insecurity in the World.” Food security and food insecurity have different meanings for different people, times, and places. However, in the context of this report, food insecurity is not about...

Impaired growth is still a problem that needs attention in Indonesia. There are many incidents of children with short stature due to lack nutrition, undernourished toddlers, and even malnutrition. Therefore, the detection child be improved. The Covid-19 pandemic has made parents patients afraid anxious take their health facilities, so monitoring neglected, especially pediatric chronic diseases....

BACKGROUND Households from vulnerable groups experiencing epidemiological transitions are known to be affected concomitantly by under-nutrition and obesity. Yet, it is unknown to what extent this double burden affects refugee populations dependent on food assistance. We assessed the double burden of malnutrition among Western Sahara refugees living in a protracted emergency. METHODS AND FINDI...

Malnutrition is the worst form of process chronic malnutrition. Healthy toddlers or malnourished children can simply be known by comparing weight according to age with reference (standard) that has been set. If matches standard, child called good nutrition. it slightly below malnutrition far According Aceh Ministry Health, in 2017 there were around 27.5% (5 million undernourished children), 3.5...