background: weaning plays a major role in determining the nutritional status of a child. poor weaning practices during infancy and early childhood, resulting in malnutrition, contribute to impairment of cognitive and social development, poor school performance and reduced productivity in later life. the objective of this study is to know weaning practices of mothers of difficult terrain. method...

Introduction: Picky eating is a condition in which children are picky about food or only consume certain foods. occurs due to lack of variety the foods that introduced children. If this lasts relatively long time, it can result energy and other nutrients. Purpose : determine relationship between behavior nutritional status SDIT Bunayya Medan students. Design analytic observational using cross s...

BACKGROUND Overweight and underweight increase the risk of metabolic impairments and chronic disease. Interventions at the household level require the diagnosis of nutritional status among family members. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and patterns of various anthropometric typologies over a decade in Colombia using a novel approach that considers all children in the house...

Chronic undernutrition causes reduced growth and endocrine adaptations in order to maintain basic life processes. In the present study, the biochemical profiles of chronically undernourished children were determined in order to test the hypothesis that chronic undernutrition also causes changes in lipid profile in pre-school children. The study population comprised 80 children aged between 12 a...

Undernutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill-health and premature mortality among children in developing countries. This paper examines how the prevalence of undernutrition in children is measured and argues that the standard indices of stunting, wasting and underweight may each be underestimating the scale of the problem. This has important implications for policy-makers, planners and...

An anthropometric survey was carried out on 1,383 school students aged 5-17 years in Suba district (a rural area of western Kenya). Body size and proportion were computed from height, weight, sitting height, arm circumference, and skinfolds. The aim of the study was to evaluate patterns of growth and nutritional status of the Luo population by assessment of the prevalence and trends of malnutri...

This third 5-year follow-up on the effects of severe undernutrition during infancy on subsequent brain growth and intellectual development confirms the level of gross retardation of intellect in the undernourished group when compared with the controls. As the subjects are now 15-18 years of age this must be permanent. All but 5 of the undernourished group are now living in conditions comparable...

1. Phospholipid content of brains of 3- or 8-week-old undernourished rats was 7--9% less than that for the corresponding control animals and this deficit could not be made up by rehabilitation. Phosphatidyl ethanolamine and plasmalogen were the components most affected in brains of undernourished rats. 2. Incorporation of 32P into phospholipids by brain homogenates was 28% higher in 3-week-old ...

Undernutrition and starvation in the rat 373 (b ) the bodies of the undernourished animals contained more fat, but less protein and calcium than those of the corresponding starved animals; (c) the concentration of haemoglobin in the blood of the undernourished young rats was lower than in the blood of the corresponding starved animals; (d ) the livers of the adult undernourished animals contain...

Undernutrition of dams and pups disrupts the retrieval efficiency of mothers. However, if the mothers are assessed in their home cages, they spend more time with their litters. In the present study the effect of test conditions on pup retrieval behavior of mothers receiving a 25% (well-nourished group) and 8% casein diet (undernourished group) was examined. In agreement with previous studies, u...