UNICEF – Improving Child Nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress

May 7, 2013

Improving Child Nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress, 2013. UNICEF. (Full text, pdf) Globally, about one in four children under 5 years old are stunted (26 per cent in 2011). An estimated 80 per cent of the world’s 165 million stunted children live in just 14 countries. Stunting and other forms of undernutrition reduce […]

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The Case for Including the “Neglected Enteric Protozoa” (NEP) and Other Enteropathy-Associated Pathogens

April 23, 2013

“Barriers” to Child Development and Human Potential: The Case for Including the “Neglected Enteric Protozoa” (NEP) and Other Enteropathy-Associated Pathogens in the NTDs. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, April 2013. Full text Bartelt LA, Lima AAM, Kosek M, Peñataro Yori P, Lee G, et al. The World Health Organization (WHO) has set forth ambitious efforts to […]

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Nutrition Security in Developing Nations: Sustainable Food, Water, and Health

March 29, 2013

Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Nutrition Security in Developing Nations: Sustainable Food, Water, and Health. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2013;113:581-595. (Link to full-text, pdf) POSITION STATEMENT It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that all people should have consistent access to an appropriately nutritious diet of food and […]

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Hygiene intervention reduces contamination of weaning food in Bangladesh

March 27, 2013

Hygiene intervention reduces contamination of weaning food in Bangladesh. Trop Med Int Health, March 2013. Full text, pdf Mohammad Sirajul Islam, et al. Abstract objective – This study was conducted to measure the impact of a hygiene intervention on the contamination of weaning food in Bangladesh. methods – Sixty households were selected: 30 study and […]

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Risk assessment of aflatoxins in food in Africa

March 7, 2013

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, 25:10, 1246-1256, 2008 Risk assessment of aflatoxins in food in Africa Gordon S. Shephard Aflatoxins are secondary metabolites of the fungi Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, occur widely on many staple foods and cause a broad range of detrimental health effects in animals and humans. As a consequence, maximum […]

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Aflatoxins and growth impairment: A review

March 7, 2013

Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2011; 41(9): 740–755 Aflatoxins and growth impairment: A review Pornsri Khlangwiset1, Gordon S. Shephard2, and Felicia Wu1 1Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and 2PROMEC Unit, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa Abstract – Aflatoxins, fungal toxins produced by Aspergillus […]

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Hand-Washing, Subclinical Infections, and Growth: A Longitudinal Evaluation

March 7, 2013

Am. J. Hum. Biol. 23:621–629, 2011. Hand-Washing, Subclinical Infections, and Growth: A Longitudinal Evaluation of an Intervention in Nepali Slums REBECCA LANGFORD,1* PETER LUNN,2 AND CATHERINE PANTER-BRICK3 1School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Bristol, BS8 2PS, United Kingdom 2Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, United Kingdom […]

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The impoverished gut-a triple burden of diarrhoea, stunting and chronic disease

March 5, 2013

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology | doi:10.1038/nrgastro.2012.239 The impoverished gut-a triple burden of diarrhoea, stunting and chronic disease Richard L. Guerrant, Mark D. DeBoer. Sean R. Moore, Rebecca J. Scharf and Aldo A. M. Lima Abstract – More than one-fifth of the world’s population live in extreme poverty, where a lack of safe water and […]

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Early child growth: how do nutrition and infection interact?

March 5, 2013

Early child growth: how do nutrition and infection interact? A&T Technical Brief Issue 3, June 2011. Full text, pdf Summary of main points 1. Infections are very common in the first 2 years of a child’s life. 2. Even when there are no obvious symptoms, physiological conditions associated with infections can impair growth by: • […]

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Environmental enteropathy: critical implications of a poorly understood condition

March 5, 2013

Trends in Molecular Medicine June 2012, Vol. 18, No. 6 Environmental enteropathy: critical implications of a poorly understood condition Poonum S. Korpe and William A. Petri, Jr. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908-1337, USA Environmental enteropathy (also called tropical enteropathy) is a subclinical condition caused by constant fecal–oral […]

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