Background: Malnutrition resulting from inappropriate and ineffective childhood feeding remains a significant public health concern especially in developing countries, where poor child feeding practices exert serious negative impact on health outcomes. This qualitative study explored mothers’ perception about complementary feeding, mothers’ hygiene and food safety measures, food storage, and pr...

Energy homeostasis--ensuring that energy availability matches energy requirements--is essential for survival. One way that energy balance is achieved is through coordinated action of neural and neuroendocrine feeding circuits, which promote energy intake when energy supply is limited. Feeding behavior engages multiple somatic and visceral tissues distributed throughout the body--contraction of ...

1 Concept of feeding and satiety centres in the brain 2 Problems with the "dual-centre" hypothesis 3 Direct neurophysiological evidence on the role of the lateral hypothalamus in feeding 4 Responses to food reward and to brain-stimulation reward in the lateral hypothalamus 5 Role of the ventromedial hypothalamus in feeding 6 Neural control of eating in man 7 Role of catecholamine pathways in fe...

Only a handful of non-human animals are known to grow their own food by cultivating high-yield fungal or algal crops as staple food. Here we report an alternative strategy utilized by an omnivorous marine worm, Hediste diversicolor, to supplement its diet: gardening by sprouting seeds. In addition to having many other known feeding modes, we showed using video recordings and manipulative mesoco...

The planting of transgenic crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxins is widespread throughout the world; the prolific increase in their application exposes nontarget organisms to toxins designed to control pests. To date, studies have focused upon the effects of Bt endotoxins on specific herbivores and detritivores, without consideration of their persistence within arthropod food webs....

House flies are of major concern as vectors of food-borne pathogens to food crops. House flies are common pests on cattle feedlots and dairies, where they develop in and feed on animal waste. By contacting animal waste, house flies can acquire human pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp., in addition to other bacteria, viruses, or parasites that may infect humans and a...

Whiteflies are the most important pests of economic crops in Egypt causing huge damage to them by their direct feeding, formation sooty mold on plants and vectoring plant viruses. An updated list 25 species whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) known occur an identification key provided.

Background Infant feeding may consist of direct breastfeeding (DBF), pumping and bottle feeding (P&F), formula feeding (FF), solid food feeding (SFF), and any combination. An accurate evaluation of infant feeding requires descriptions of different patterns, consistency, and transition over time. Methods In United States of America, the Infant Feeding Practice Study II collected information on...