BACKGROUND We have recently shown that brief behavioral counseling based on the stage of change (SOC) model stimulates greater increases in fruit and vegetable intake over 12 months than nutritional education in adults living in a low-income urban area. We tested the hypothesis that behavioral counseling would overcome the greater obstacles to change in precontemplators and contemplators compar...

BACKGROUND Obesity and over weight is one of the causes of threatening children's present and future life. One of the factors that cause this problem is parents' attitude toward preschool children's nutritional patterns. Education can improve the parents' attitude and prevents from this big issue. This study aimed to assess changes in mother's attitude and behavioral intention using intention m...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition continues to be a critical public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. For example, in East Africa, 48 % of children under-five are stunted while 36 % are underweight. Poor health and poor nutrition are now more a characteristic of children living in the urban areas than of children in the rural areas. This is because the protective mechanism offered by the urban advant...

Non-existent micro-level estimates on the impact of migration on livelihood in rural areas in Kenya, compounded with minimal literature on the same, called for this study. This study used secondary data from the 2005 to 2015 African Wildlife Foundation Livelihoods dataset from Kilimanjaro landscape, with the purpose was of undertaking a comparative livelihood analysis between the in-migrant and...

BACKGROUND: In general, maternal knowledge about nutrition and health affects food habits, influencing the child’s nutritional or iron intake. One effort to improve children’s status is by providing education. AIM: The purpose of this study was analyze effect a education intervention on toddlers’ intake prevent anemia among children under five. Paired t-test used differences in knowledge, nutri...

The human body is designed for movement and capable of incredible athletic and sporting achievements. Attempts to improve the ability to perform on the athletic stage are never-ending and involve a serious dedication to training. Athletes, coaches, support personnel, and scientists are constantly experimenting with new ways to improve training and its applicability to performance. Nutrition is ...

A prerequisite for a discussion of effective nutrition education is the establishment of the premise that nutrition is a specific and separate branch of the life sciences. The nutritionist must be similarly identifiable as having a distinct role and professional function. Recent discussions of the state of nutrition have been equivocal on this point: the Neuberger report (ARC/MRC Committee, 197...