As measured by degree of stunting, close to half of India's children suffer from chronic malnutrition and about a quarter from severe chronic malnutrition. Data from the 1998-1999 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) are analysed to assess whether recommended infant feeding practices help to alleviate the prevalence of stunting. The evidence supports some recommended practices, including the ad...

OBJECTIVE To explore the association between birth season and physical development and provide a necessary reference value to inform the implementation of public health services. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Forty-five counties in ten provinces in western China in 2005. SUBJECTS A sample of 13,387 children under 3 years old and their mothers were recruited using a stratified, mul...

BACKGROUND Poor nutritional status of adolescent girls has a negative effect on the next generation as undernourished adolescents enter pregnancy with poor nutrient reserve. However, there is scarcity of evidence showing the burden of stunting among adolescent girls in Ethiopia. Therefore, the objective of this study aimed to assess prevalence of stunting and associated factors among school ado...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of underweight and stunting among the children entering first year of school and to assess its associated factors. METHODS This descriptive, analytical study was conducted at 5 schools of Rabwah, Pakistan, from August to September 2015, and comprised all students who got admission in the selected schools during the study period. Name, father's name, gender...

Stunting remains a major public health concern worldwide. Although its global prevalence is slowly decreasing, the actual number of affected children is still rising in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the Central African Republic (CAR), about one third of all children below the age of five are stunted. Stunting is correlated with many long-term consequences, including poor cognitive development and a hi...

OBJECTIVES To determine the nutritional status and validity of mid upper arm circumference (MAC) in diagnosing malnutrition among preschool children. DESIGN Cross-sectional household survey. SETTING 47 villages in District Ambala, Haryana. SUBJECTS 3747 children aged less than six years. METHODOLOGY Trained field workers recorded age, weight, length/ height and MAC of children. Prevalen...

Lavender flower essential oil had been used for a variety of therapeutic and cosmetic purposes. Previous studies mainly focused on composition extraction methods, ignoring the factors that affected production oils, such as floret number. This study aims to get deep insight into mechanism number differences. Hormone analysis showed there was positive correlation between abscisic acid (ABA) conte...

Male florets and pistillate flowers of cvs.Chandler and Hartley of Persian walnut were cultured on modified Murashige and Skoog medium (MS) supplemented with 0.05 mg l-1 biotin, 0.5 mg l-1 folic acid, 100 mg l-1 glutamine and different concentrations of Naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) and Kinetin (KIN) and for pistillate flowers culture, these concentrations were 0.25, 0.5, 1 and 2 mg l-1). After...