Malnutrition is pervasive in India, affecting large sections of the population. It includes primary energy protein malnutrition and micro nutrient deficiencies. Apart from malnutrition children in India usually suffer from other deficiency diseases and sometimes face death due to some specific diseases. The importance of nutrition during pre-school years has recently been realized all over the ...

OBJECTIVE Compare the performance of Lea Symbols and Sheridan Gardiner charts against the standard test chart used to determine reduced VA during vision screening among pre-schoolers. MATERIAL AND METHOD Seven hundred seventy five pre-school participated where 389 subjects were boys and 386 subjects were girls were tested using the Lea Symbols chart and the Sheridan Gardiner chart. The mean a...

OBJECTIVE To estimate energy and nutrient intake and adequacy in preschool and school age Mexican children, using the National Nutrition Survey 1999 (NNS-1999). MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty four-h dietary recalls from pre-school (n = 1,309) and school (n = 2,611) children obtained from a representative sub-sample of the NNS-1999 were analyzed. Intakes and adequacies were estimated and compared...

The article is devoted to the role of iron, vitamins and minerals in development iron deficiency anaemia children early pre-school age. Iron (ID) one most common nutritional-dependent states world, which, according WHO [1], affects more than 1.5 billion people. form (IDA) [1, 2] about half cases (over 700 million world’s population). ID mostly due nutritional reasons, but age socio-economic fac...

the purpose of the present study is developing “working memory training software”, and investigating the efficacy of this computerized cognitive training on students working memory. this study is in r&d; research category, and it is performed in a semi-experimental design. its data were collected from students of the third grade (30), fourth grade (30), and fifth grade (12) of primary school. t...