One of the factors that influence people’s food habits is education. This paper discussed the concept of nutrition education and the relevance of nutrition education to individual and family health. The barriers to effective implementation of nutrition education were also discussed. These include lack of contact with professionals, attitude, limitation of human and material resources and too mu...

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background: it is necessary to get information on nutrition situation in children and epidemiology of the malnutrition to use for planning and health policy making, therefore this study aimed to identify the role of human development on nutrition situation in children under-five years of old worldwide.methods: this ecological study was performed on the relation of the nutrition situation of chi...

2009;22(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr a Du Plessis LM, M Nutrition, RD (SA) b Labadarios D, MBChB, PhD, FACN c Singh T, MD, MA (Distance Education) a Marais D, PhD, RD (SA) a Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa b Knowledge Systems, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg c Christian Med...

Food and nutrition are of paramount importance to sustainable human development. Where there is poor nutrition one finds a woefully inadequate formation and utilization of human capabilities. Malnutrition, if it does not lead to death, has profound consequences that extends not only into later life, but also into future generations. Among the adverse effects of malnutrition are increased morbid...

The following literature review explores the links between the use of macroand micronutrient fertilizers and human nutrition. The review focuses on the academic literature covering the effects of fertilizers on plant and human nutrition in areas with nutrient deficient soils, with a particular emphasis on South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the review identifies a few of the primar...

OBJECTIVE To promote the new field of 'public nutrition' as a means to address, in a more efficient, sustainable and ethical manner, the world-wide epidemic of malnutrition--undernutrition and specific nutrient deficiencies, and also obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. STRATEGY Grounded in the health promotion model, public nutrition applies the population health strategy to...