Latest estimates indicate that nutritional deficiencies account for 3 million child deaths each year in less-developed countries. Targeted nutritional interventions could therefore save millions of lives. However, such interventions require careful optimization to maximize benefit and avoid harm. Progress toward designing effective life-saving interventions is currently hampered by some serious...

‘The persistence of malnutrition, especially among children and mothers, in this world of plenty, is immoral.’ This was an opening statement of a report published in 2000. The report was produced by the Commission on the Nutrition Challenges of the 21st Century and was presented to the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UN SCN). Its title was Ending Malnutrition by 2020. We know now tha...

l Growth is the most important determinant of health status of a child and is an indirect reflection of the well being of the entire community. l In Australia and in Queensland obesity is increasing among children as well as adults, and is directly linked to several major national and State health priority areas-cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and certain cancers. l 19% to 24% of...

Undernutrition represents a major public health challenge for middle- and low-income countries. This study aimed to evaluate whether a multideficient Northeast Brazil regional basic diet (RBD) induces acute morphological and functional changes in the ileum of mice. Swiss mice (∼25 g) were allocated into two groups: i) control mice were fed a standard diet and II) undernourished mice were fed th...

Background: The prevention and treatment of diseases related to changes in body composition require accurate methods for the measurement of body composition. However, few studies have dealt specifically with the assessment of body composition of undernourished older subjects by different methodologies. Objectives: To assess the body composition of undernourished older subjects by two different ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of undernutrition in patients in Dutch rehabilitation centres and to measure the diagnostic accuracy of available screening tools. METHODS This cross-sectional multicentre study was conducted in 11 rehabilitation centres in The Netherlands. Patient's nutritional status was determined by the amount of weight loss during the last 1, ...

1. Seventeen male subjects with an energy intake of 10.6 (SD 1.7) MJ/d and ten male undernourished labourers with an energy intake of 8.0 (SD 1.2) MJ/d were studied. The controls were subdivided into ten underweight controls with a body mass index (weight/height2; BMI) less than 18 (17.2 (SD 0.9)) and seven normal-weight controls with a BMI greater than 20 (21.3 (SD 1.6)), while the undernouris...

Worldwide, ten and a half million children under five die every year, with 98% of these deaths in low- middle-income countries, including Ethiopia. Undernutrition is serious public health problem Ethiopia are the most affected segments population. This study, therefore, sought to investigate socio-economic, demographic, environmental factors associated undernutrition among aged 6–59 months Data...

At the time of independence majority of Indians were poor. In spite of spending over 80 per cent of their income on food, they could not get adequate food. Living in areas of poor environmental sanitation they had high morbidity due to infections; nutrition toll due to infections was high because of poor access to health care. As a result, majority of Indians especially children were undernouri...

Serum haemolytic complement activity and C3 were significantly decreased in 35 malnourished children. The changes were more pronounced in those with infection. Electrophoretically altered forms of complement C were detected in 14. There was an inverse correlation between C3 levels and immunoconglutinin titres. Nutritional rehabilitation and eradication of infection reversed the abnormalities. I...