Undernutrition--protein energy malnutrition or specific nutrient deficiencies--has been an inherent characteristic of impoverished populations throughout the world. Over-nutrition, obesity and nutrition imbalance is a current concern among those with rising though still insufficient incomes. We review data to suggest that the prevalence of these forms of malnutrition in populations is highly in...

[1] Aerosol particles modify the transfer of solar radiation in the atmosphere. To quantify this impact, the composition and the size distribution of the aerosol have to be known. In this study, simulations with a comprehensive model system including meteorological processes, gas phase chemistry, and aerosol dynamics and chemistry were carried out to investigate the impact of aerosol particles ...

BACKGROUND Even in an era of obesity and dietary excess, numerous shortfall micronutrients have been identified in the diets of US children and adolescents. To help tailor strategies for meeting recommendations, it is important to know what foods contribute greatly to micronutrient intakes. Data are lacking on specific contributions made by added nutrients. OBJECTIVE Our aims were to examine ...

ed from a broader development strategy, such as calls for connectivity in every village by date X, are probably of limited use. 3. ICTs enable change; they do not create it. Pro-poor change in developing countries occurs through some combination of increased resources and capacities of individuals and institutions; greater efficiency and transparency of firms, markets and government institution...

The aim of this study was to investigate the dietary intakes and anthropometric profiles of county and club Gaelic football players and compare them to soccer players and control subjects. Seven-day dietary records were analyzed and anthropometric measurements were taken midway through the Gaelic football competitive season. The county group with a mean height of 1.82 +/- 0.04 m were significan...

Although clinical pharmacy training in Pakistan is a novelty in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum, it has significantly improved the practical knowledge of the undergraduate students with regards practice of pharmacy in health care settings. The implementation of the curriculum change was a major innovation but the possible negative implications were not contemplated at the time of executio...

background addiction is considered a basic structural problem in modern society, and seems to reach an epidemic scale in the last decades. choosing a method to fulfill the intervention is an important issue to conduct educational interventions to prevent addictive behaviors. in this regard, web-based education has been widely used to introduce preventive programs to risky behaviors during recen...

Nanostructured metal films comprised of periodically arranged spherical voids are grown by electrochemical deposition through a self-assembled template. Detailed measurements of the angleand orientation-dependent reflectivity for different sample geometries reveal the spectral dispersion of several different types of surface plasmon modes. The dependence of the energies of both delocalized Brag...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of nutrition education intervention based on Pender's Health Promotion Model in improving the frequency and nutrient intake of breakfast consumption among female Iranian students. DESIGN The quasi-experimental study based on Pender's Health Promotion Model was conducted during April-June 2011. Information (data) was collected by self-administered quest...

"Prevention is better than cure" is probably more applicable to promoting health in childhood than in any other age group. Nutrition rehabilitation units' have been established in several developing countries in an effort to prevent the protein energy malnutrition that is so common in most of them. A similar sort of unit, modified to include all aspects of child care, seemed to be needed in the...