<p><strong>ABSTRAK</strong></p><p><strong>Latar Belakang:</strong> Bagi anak sekolah dasar (SD) status gizi yang cukup akan menunjang kemampuan akademiknya di sekolah. Akan tetapi, disaat pembatasan social berskala besar (PSBB) berlaku pengukuran tidak mungkin dilakukan karena dapat meningkatkan resiko penularan.</p><p><strong>Tujuan:&...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to test the extent to which, under different opportunities for market participation, the diversity of plant species rural households grow or collect (on-farm diversity), and the variety of foods mothers purchase (market diversity) are associated with their dietary diversity. METHODS Rural households from three districts in southern Benin were interview...

UNLABELLED Eating alone is an emerging social concern these days along with the background of serious aging population growth and increasing number of single-dwellers in Japan. However, little study is focused eating alone and its relation to the health status of community-dwelling elderly. OBJECTIVES To clarify the relations between eating alone and geriatric functions such as depression, qu...

Home gardens are important for enhancing food and nutritional security for HIV/AIDS-afflicted rural households through dietary diversity. Female-headed households may depend on home gardens more than average households to supply and supplement the household’s diet when labour is constrained for field cropping. This paper compares household characteristics, dietary diversity, labour allocated to...

Although dietary diversity is universally recognized as a key component of healthy diets, there is still a lack of consensus on how to measure and operationalize it. This paper focuses on the issues of dietary diversity in developing countries. It also draws upon experience from developed countries to address the following questions: 1. How is dietary diversity conceptualized, operationalized, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Dietary diversity score (DDS) is relatively easy to measure and is shown to be a very useful indicator of the probability of adequate micronutrient intake. Dietary diversity, however, is usually assessed during a single period and little is known about the effect of seasonality on it. This study investigates whether dietary diversity is influenced by seasonality. MET...

This study was conducted to identify dietary factors that may affect the occurrence of gastric cancer in Koreans. Preoperative daily nutrition intake and diet quality of patients diagnosed with gastric cancer were evaluated. Collected data were comparatively analyzed by gender. The results were then used to prepare basic materials to aid in the creation of a desirable postoperative nutrition ma...

OBJECTIVE To identify and describe factors associated with food shop (known as tuck shop in South Africa) and lunchbox behaviours of primary-school learners in South Africa. DESIGN Analysis of data collected in 2008 from a cross-sectional survey. SETTING Sixteen primary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. SUBJECTS A total of 717 grade 4 learners aged 10-12 years. RESULTS A 24 h r...

background: the co-existence of under and overnutrition might be influenced by a marked shift in dietary and lifestyle practices of people in developing countries. objective: this study aims to identify the factors associated with the occurrence of a dual form of malnutrition in the same households in a rural district in peninsular malaysia. methods: this study was conducted in two phases. the ...