nutrition for under ‑ 5 children is of great importance as the foundation for life ‑ time health, strength, and intellectual vitality is laid during this period. globally, more than one ‑ third of the child deaths are attributable to under ‑ nutrition. the discriminatory attitudes against female children vary from being implicit to those that are quite explicit. so, the present cross â€...

Prolonged observations of children severely malnourished in early life suggested that permanent stunting in body length and head size resulted (1, 2). Studies with small laboratory animals lent support to these observations (3). Besides the obvious species differences, there were other important distinctions between the two types of studies. Whereas the experimental animals after the early insu...

OBJECTIVES We used "PediaSure" a high-density supplemental high caloric feed, for the purpose of nutrition therapy of malnourished children during the initial 2 weeks of rehabilitation. METHODOLOGY Thirty-one severely malnourished children between the ages of 1-5 years of age completed the study. After management of acute medical complications, they were started on "Pediasure" as their source...

AIM To investigate whether the low docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) status of malnourished, mostly breast fed, Pakistani children can be improved by fish oil (FO) supplementation. METHODS Ten malnourished children (aged 8-30 months) received 500 mg FO daily for nine weeks. The supplement contained 62.8 mol% (314 mg) long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids of the omega3 series (LCPUFAomega3) and 22.5...

Wasting, kwashiorkor and stunting are not usually due to either protein or energy deficiency. Treatment based upon this concept results in high mortality rates, and failure of treated children to return physiologically to normal. They become relatively obese with insufficient lean tissue. Preventive strategies have also failed. Wasting and stunting are primarily due to deficiency of type II nut...

OBJECTIVE To update the available evidence about zinc use for treating diarrhea in children and to assess its effect on the malnourished population, a subgroup that has not been fully explored in previous analyses. METHODS A systematic review was performed of randomized clinical trials that assessed children up to 5 years old with acute diarrhea who received zinc supplementation. Controls rec...