To the Editors, We are grateful to Thorne-Lyman et al. (2014) for the insightful comments in response to the Jones et al. (2014) article. We largely agree with observations highlighting important limitations of dietary data drawn from 24-h recall methods and take the opportunity to augment the discussion of the important question posed regarding the potential underestimation of the associations...

This study aimed to assess the fulfillment of Minimum Dietary Diversity for children (MDD), Meal Frequency (MMF), and Acceptable Diet (MAD) analyze correlation between individual, socioeconomic, demographic characteristics MAD in ages 6 23 months Indonesia. used a cross-sectional design. The subjects were 798 Indonesia from National Total Study. data collection on MDD, MMF, twenty-four-hour die...

From childhood to adulthood, adolescence phase transition, implies many lifestyle changes. This study aims investigate the perception of adolescent girls their own diet and health status. A cross-sectional study, using a structured face-to-face administered questionnaire, were carried out in 395 15 - 19 years old secondary schools Cotonou, Benin. Chi 2 Wilcoxon Mann Whitney tests performed appr...

We utilized the most recent Demographic Health Survey data to explore the distribution of feeding practices and examine relationships between complementary feeding and socio-demographic and health behaviour indicators in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. We based our analysis on complementary dietary diversity scores calculated for children 6-23 months old. Geographically, Kenya displayed clear divis...

Lack of diet diversity causing micronutrient deficiency is common in developing countries and is gaining attention due to the hidden consequences of impaired physical and cognitive development. This paper describes the propagation of a sustainable perennial kitchen garden (KG) model to address household (HH) diet diversity in Melghat. Nutrient dense plants, comprising of minimum one tree (peren...

in order to study the different levels of irrigation on diversity, density and compound of weed species in corn field, experiment was conducted at agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad during growing season of 2008-2009. the experiment was with four levels of irrigation (6130, 7290, 8800 and 12330 m3) and four levels of weed control (complete control, broad-leaves contro...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition in children is a major public health concern. This study aimed to determine the association between dietary diversity and stunting, underweight, wasting, and diarrhea and that between consumption of each specific food group and these nutritional and health outcomes among children. METHODS A nationally representative household survey of 6209 children aged 12 to 59 month...

In this paper, we argue that the metaphor form of a comparison (i.e., a topic-vehicle pair) is preferred over, and more comprehensible than, the simile form when the interpretive diversity for that comparison is high. Interpretive diversity refers to the richness of the figurative meaning of a comparison; it is high to the extent that more features or properties are related to the figurative me...

The prevalence of stunting in children under five years old has decreased from 25% 2013 to 18% 2019 Gambia. consumption certain food groups, as part minimum dietary diversity, serves a measure the adequacy nutrient density for children. This study aims examine association between stunted and types sources, well wealth status. Secondary data Gambia Demographic Health Survey 2019-2020 were analyz...

BACKGROUND Low dietary quality and quantity and inappropriate feeding practices can cause undernutrition. Poor nutritional status in early childhood is associated with growth faltering. The objective of the study was to assess the potential of community-based nutrition education to improve height-for-age z-scores in children 6-23 months of age. METHODS AND FINDINGS We carried out a cluster-ra...