Search Results for child

.... The infant's diet is of utmost importance, as it needs to meet the nutrient requirements especially during the first 2 years of life, a critical window for the child's healthy development. In Cambodia, infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices are poor. Preparation of a special complementary meal...

...Introduction Bleeding in a child can be a diagnostic challenge because of the wide range of possible causes, but making a specific diagnosis is clinically important in order to provide appropriate therapy and counseling. An excessive bleeding response to commonly encountered challenges...

... approach to identify associations between different milk component groups like HMOs, fatty acids, and milk microbiota in the Canadian CHILD study and reported that these were stronger between milk components within each group than correlations between components from different groups. An example...

... Project of the European Union (EU-CHOP) [ 17 ], the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study [ 18 ], the Melbourne Infant Feeding Activity and Nutrition Trial (InFANT) [ 19 ], the EDEN Mother-Child Cohort [ 20 ], the Danish SKOT-1 study [ 21 ], Young Finns Study [ 22 ], and the Saskatchewan Pediatric...

... characteristic of childhood. It is also a sensitive indicator of a child’s nutritional status and thereby health. Deviations in growth, especially growth restriction, but also excess fat accumulation typical of obesity, are associated with greater risk of disease both in the short and the long run. Monitoring...

.... Coordinated models of care for health service delivery are needed for the management of pediatric obesity. Introduction Child and adolescent obesity is a prevalent problem in most westernized and rapidly westernizing countries and is associated with both immediate and longer-term complications...

... Abstract Child care has broad reach to young children. Yet, not all child care settings have nutrition standards for what and how foods and beverages should be served to infants as they transition to toddlerhood. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of nutrition...

... with an ­upper limit of 750 mL [ 59 ]. Centre of Disease Control in the US recommend 16–24 oz/day (470–710 mL) for children 12–24 months [ 60 ]. The recommendation in some South East Asian countries is 500–750 mL/day [ 9 ]. In a 12-month-old child, which typically weighs 10 kg, an intake of 750 mL whole cow’s...

... Abstract Aggregated analyses of child growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) reveal a remarkably consistent picture of serious growth failure compared to the WHO reference growth curves. Impoverished diets with low dietary diversity are a key driver of poor growth...

... Abstract Undernutrition affects almost 25% of all children under the age of 5 worldwide and underlies almost half of all child deaths. Child undernutrition is also associated with long-term growth deficits, in addition to reduced cognitive potential, reduced economic potential, and elevated...

... multiple generations, although this would require epigenetic marks to evade epigenetic reprogramming events at conception and in primordial germ cells, and evidence for this is lacking in humans. Effects on child development spanning one or more generations could impose an intergenerational “brake...

... Abstract Stunting is a prevalent form of child undernutrition and is associated with lifelong adverse health outcomes and loss of human capital. The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Benefits (Bangladesh and Kenya) and Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy (SHINE; Zimbabwe) trials...

.... Nutrition education, defined broadly as education, environmental supports, and policy, can be highly influential on children’s nutrition. The “4-Ps” is a useful mnemonic when describing the multiple opportunities within ECE programs to address child nutrition, referring to provisions, practices, planned...

... a framework based on the “4 Ps” to describe and provide examples of the multiple opportunities within childcare settings to impact child nutrition which are: provisions, practices, planned education and outreach, and policy. In addition, the evidence-based GO NAPSAC, an online tool box to help childcare...

... children, given their increased nutritional demands. Although direct causal information on the link of micronutrient deficiencies to maternal and fetal malnutrition and child growth is difficult to establish, indirect information related to risk factors and intervention studies does suggest a close...

... Abstract Considering the patient's transition from child to adolescent to adult and its psychological aspects in endocrinology and diabetology, it is necessary to recall the child's psycho-affective development when he enters adolescence. Indeed, adolescence appears paradigmatic of the “child...

...%), ProgettoMondo Mlal, an Italian non-governmental organization, has put in place a mechanism to strengthen the Community system in order to carry out actions for promoting good practices in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and community management of acute malnutrition at village level. Nutrition Educational...

... Abstract The prevalence of child maltreatment in different countries and within different groups of children and families has been difficult both to estimate and to compare. Reasons for the wide variation in incidence and prevalence include differences in how maltreatment is defined, varying...

..., and improvement in nutritional status of children. A wide range of conditions from global politics to immediate care in the household determines child health and survival. The successful efforts in recent decades to reduce mortality need to be reinforced by a stronger emphasis on geographic, social and gender...