BACKGROUND Despite the fact that breastfeeding promotes optimal health and growth for infants and young children, inappropriate feeding practice, such as prelacteal feeding increases the risk of neonatal death and illness and remains a public health problem in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study assessed the prevalence of prelacteal feeding and associated factors among HIV positive mothers with chi...

Associative learning processes play many important roles in the control of food consumption. Although these processes can complement regulatory mechanisms in the control of eating by providing opportunities for the anticipation of upcoming needs, they may also contribute to inappropriate or pathological consumption patterns by overriding internal regulatory signals. In this article, we first re...

abstract treating soil with insecticides is thought to be an effective method for termite control. speed of action and repellency of insecticides are important factors for discussing their barrier effects as soil-treatment termiticide. microcerotermes diversus (silvestri) is the most economically destructive termite in structures in ahwaz region, because the species feed on anything with cellul...

The cornerstone of baby and young child survival, healthy growth development, future generations, national development is infancy feeding (IYCF). Inappropriate practices in infants early children, as well their repercussions, are substantial roadblocks to longterm socioeconomic poverty reduction, with acute chronic health effects for individuals. Breastfeeding exclusively the first six months a...

In Cambodia, the energy and nutrient densities of the traditional rice-based complementary diets used for infant feeding are very low. Whether the adequacy improves after the first year of life is uncertain. Therefore, we examined the feeding practices and the energy and nutrient intakes from non-breastmilk foods (NBMFs) of two groups: partially breastfed (PBF) (n = 41) and non-breastfed (NBF) ...

The human circadian system anticipates and adapts to daily environmental changes to optimise behaviour according to time of day and temporally partitions incompatible physiological processes. At the helm of this system is a master clock in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the anterior hypothalamus. The SCN are primarily synchronised to the 24-h day by the light/dark cycle; however, feeding/f...

OBJECTIVE To identify treatment studies for severe pediatric feeding problems that meet the modified methodological criteria of the Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures (1995). METHODS Articles in peer-reviewed medical and psychological journals (1970-1997) reporting psychosocial or behavioral intervention studies targeting an identified oral feeding problem i...