Socio-economic groups differ in their material, living, working and social circumstances, which may result in different priorities about their daily-life needs, including the priority to make healthy food choices. Following Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, we hypothesised that socio-economic inequalities in healthy food choices can be explained by differences in the levels of need fulfilment....

A good nutrition for healthy life in human needs a balance diet following a healthy food pyramid with the widest base on the bottom. Sources of essential minerals may come from different food sources such as meats, fish, shellfish, vegetables and fruits besides drinking water. These minerals usually are those needed for the basal metabolisms and catabolisms for the living tissues in human. Howe...

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are nutrient standards that may be used to plan nutrient intakes. Thus, they are useful as the basis for formulating dietary guidelines. The guidelines are often presented to the public as a food guide that will promote nutrient adequacy without risk of excessive intake. Such guides typically use the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) as intake targets becaus...

Improving food security and nutrition in the developing world remains among society's most intractable challenges and continues despite a wide variety of investments. Both donor- and enterprise-led initiatives, for example, have explored including smallholder farmers in their value chains. However, these efforts have had only modest success, partly because the private and development sectors pr...

Background: Due to the importance of nutrition during pregnancy and its role in future generations' health, the study tried to determine dietary diversity and its relationship with newborns' anthropometric indices at birth. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 400 pregnant women (28-40 weeks of pregnancy) whom were referred to the health centers in Zahedan were studied in 2016. To assess the...

The US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Health and Human Services first developed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 1980 (1). The dietary guidelines provide advice to healthy Americans on food choices to promote healthy eating and reduce risk of disease. The dietary guidelines were updated in 1985, 1990, and 1995 to ensure their accurate interpretation of the most recent...