Background: Infants and pre-school are most susceptible to undernutrition. Integrated Child Development Services is the programme focussing undernourished children by providing them supplementary nutrition. Aim& Objective: To study prevalence of undernutrition in 0-6 year old factors associated with it. impact nutrition on children. Settings Design: A longitudinal study. Methods Material: T...

Background: This cross-sectional study was undertaken to assess the nutritional status in relation socio-economic determinants among sabar tribes of Jhargram district, West Bengal.Methods: Nutritional 169 children, adolescent and adult male female tribal people taken measure body height, weight BMI. Socio economic including family income, occupation, size, educational status, source drinking wa...

It is hypothesized that giving children a daily breakfast at school may improve their scholastic achievement through several mechanisms: increasing the time spent in school, improving certain cognitive functions and attention to tasks, and, perhaps indirectly, improving nutritional status. Two Jamaican studies showed that providing breakfast to students at school improved some cognitive functio...

Fluid transport was measured gravimetrically in vivo in the jejunum, ileum and colon of fed, fasting (four days) and undernourished (50 % of control food intake for 21 days) gerbils (Gerbillus cheesmani). The effects of luminal enterotoxin Escherichia coli STa (50 ng/ml) and luminal 8-bromo-cyclic GMP (cGMP 1 mM) on fluid transport across jejunum, ileum and colon were also assessed. Fasting and...

To study the potential relationship between circulating triacylglycerol (TAG) levels and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity in the newborn rat liver, pups from undernourished or normal control mothers were nursed by normal dams, and studied at 0, 1, 15 or 30 days of age. Plasma TAG levels and liver TAG concentration increased more in pups from undernourished mothers than they did in controls. At...

The morphological maturation of Bergmann glia cells, which might play a particularly important role in the histogenesis of the cerebellar cortex, was studied in GolgiCox preparations and electron micrographs of the cerebellum of normal and undernourished young rats. An unexpected acceleration in the morphological development of Bergmann glia cells was observed in the undernourished animals duri...

Stoch, M. B., and Smythe, P. M. (1976). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 51, 327. 15-year developmental study on effects of severe undernutrition during infancy on subsequent physical growth and intellectual functioning. This third 5-year follow-up on the effects of severe undernutrition during infancy on subsequent brain growth and intellectual development confirms the level of gross retardat...