OBJECTIVE To determine the nutritional status of men and the food security status of their households in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Kenya. DESIGN A descriptive, cross-sectional study using a questionnaire and biometric measurements was completed in June 2013. SETTING IDP camp, Rongai, Kenya. SUBJECTS A total of 267 men aged ≥18 years residing within the camp were recrui...

Food insecurity is a worldwide problem and has been shown to contribute to poor health and nutritional outcomes. In Malaysia, poor dietary intake, overweight and obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hypercholesterolaemia have been reported to be more prevalent in females compared to males and in Indians compared to other ethnic groups. A cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the relation...

BACKGROUND The role of household food security (HFS) in the occurrence of wasting and the response to food-based intervention in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV), especially adults, is still controversial and needs investigation. METHODS Face-to-face interviews to collect data for Coping Strategies Index score and Dietary Diversity Score estimation were conducted during...

OBJECTIVE The association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity in rural smallholder households was recently analysed. Most existing studies build on household-level dietary diversity indicators calculated from 7d food consumption recalls. Herein, this association is revisited with individual-level 24 h recall data. The robustness of the results is tested by comparing househol...

BACKGROUND Anemia is defined as a condition in which there is less than the normal hemoglobin (Hb) level in the body. During pregnancy; iron deficiency is associated with multiple adverse outcomes for both mother and infant. Most of the studies conducted in Ethiopia on anemia during pregnancy were conducted at institution level and associated factors are not well studied and documented. Indepen...

The study aimed to assess and characterize the sustainability of national diet in Turkey its association with quality, dietary requirements, sociodemographic factors. Dietary intake was assessed using 24 h recalls from Nutrition Health Survey 2017 (TNHS-2017) (n = 12,527). environmental footprints were two indicators: greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) water footprint (WF). Diet quality index (DQ...

The emerging interest in household dietary diversity against dietary quantity presents an opportunity to estimate household food security. Using household cross-sectional survey data from rural communities in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa (N=181), the paper estimated determinants of rural household dietary diversity. Regression results suggest a positive influence of participation i...

BACKGROUND Diet and nutrition-related behaviours are embedded in cultural and environmental contexts: adoption of new knowledge depends on how easily it can be integrated into existing knowledge systems. As dietary diversity promotion becomes an increasingly common component of nutrition education, understanding local nutrition knowledge systems and local concepts about dietary diversity is ess...