منابع مشابه
Protein Quality, Growth, and Malnutrition
This article is the introduction to our formal proceedings of the symposium titled ‘‘Protein Quality, Growth and Malnutrition: Latest Scientific Findings and the Role of Dairy in Food Aid,’’ held during the Experimental Biology 2015 annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
متن کاملDietary protein quality and malnutrition in Africa.
The WHO (2007) Technical Report on protein and amino acid requirements in human nutrition states that the best estimate for a population average requirement is 105 mg nitrogen/kg body weight per day, or 0·66 g protein/kg body weight per day. In many developing countries protein intake falls significantly short of these values. Apart from protein quantity, protein quality including bioavailabili...
متن کاملNutrition , Malnutrition and Economic Growth
Malnutrition is widespread in the developing world. 12 or more million low-birthweight births occur per year and 180 million children are characterized as malnourished. This chapter first assesses estimates of the extent of malnutrition in developing countries. It then surveys micro evidence about the productivity impact of improved nutrition in developing countries – from conception through in...
متن کاملMalnutrition, Poverty, and Economic Growth
This paper examines the use of nutrition and health indicators for assessment of well-being and deprivation in the developing world, arguing that child anthropometric indicators provide a reliable, interesting, and readily available data source for comparison of absolute deprivation across populations and countries. Indicators of child malnutrition shortfall⎯especially height for age and weight...
متن کاملGrowth and malnutrition in Ethiopia.
This article focuses on anthropometric parameters as height for age, weight for age and weight for height, which are among the most used tools for assessing well-being of infants and children. Such data have been collected between 1992--1993 from samples of infants and children aged between 2 and 10 years from urban and rural areas of Ethiopia. Similar to many other reports from developing coun...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Food and Nutrition Bulletin
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0379-5721,1564-8265
DOI: 10.1177/0379572116629246