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Food and eating are pleasurable and essential to life. However, the abundance of palatable food items in many societies has created problems both at the individual and societal...
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Deficiency of vitamin A in the diet represents one of the key challenges affecting the developing world. However, beta-carotene is the most available/important source of...
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Appropriate breast feeding and complementary feeding practices and access to adequate amounts of appropriate foods are essential for optimal infant nutrition. Therefore, this...
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Although protein rich complementary foods produced from animal milk are good complementary foods for infants, low nutrient gruels are commonly used as complementary foods in...
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This study assessed the food consumption pattern and micronutrient intake of pregnant women in Aba South Local Government Area ol Abia State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the...
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Malnutrition remains a global public health concern. Also, protein energy malnutrition (PEM) is a major health problem in communities leading to excessive rates of morbidity and...
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The study adults determined the prevalence of overweight and obesity among 233 (128ma1es and 105 females) randomly selected from Umuahia North L.G.A. of Abia State. A structured...
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Micronutrient deficiency has a significant influence on both the health and productivity of a population, micronutrient fortification of staple foods plays a significant role in...
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The study was carried out to determine nutritional status of school age children (5-10 years) in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. Two schools were purposively used for the study....
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285 pregnant voinen \VI1() attended antcnatal It the traditional birth attendant hone were taste in the study. A structured well validated questionnaire was used to determine...
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Complementary foods are infants' food given to infant between 6- 24 months in order to complement breast milk and not to replace it. In developing countries such as Nigeria, ...
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Proximate composition of fortified bambara groundnut pudding was compared to the unfortified pudding. The result show that fortified Bambara ground nut (BGN) pudding of sample B...
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This study evaluated the dietary adequacy of elderly individuals in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State; to determine whether living arrangements were related to...
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Three hundred children within the age range 6 — 24 months from four Local Government in Imo State, Nigeria were studied to determine their feeding patterns and nutritional status...
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Garri is one of the most popular fermented foods made from cassava and eaten in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa. Four samples were derived and comparative study on the proximate...
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Malnutrition, both under nutrition and over nutrition resulting from imbalance of nutrients is of
public health significance among populations across the world. The coexistence of
...
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Deficiency of vitamin A in the diet represents one of the key challenges
affecting the developing world. however, beta-carotene is the most
available/important source of pro-vitamin A in the...
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This study determined the n Ut riti on knowledge, feeding habits and anthropometric status
of adolescents in lJmuahia North Local Government, Abia state. Two hundred and
seventy-seven (277)...
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Poor or unbalanced diets as in the case of excessive eating and under nutrition are risk
S factors for several chronic diseases. This study was carried out to assess health seeking
behaviour,...
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Poor nutritional status is one of the major causes of low academic performance and
productivity in primary education which may affect the physical and cognitive
development in children during...
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Nutritional status of children aged 6-24 months is expected to be inculcated in the priority
of every nation as malnutrition is one of the principal underlying causes of death in the
world's...