Eating attitudes can be defined as beliefs, thoughts, feelings, behavior and relationship with food. They can influence people's food choices and health status. The scope of this paper is to compare eating attitudes of university students from different regions of Brazil and investigate possible associations and correlations with nutritional status, age, individual income and parental education...

BACKGROUND Undernutrition contributes to one-third of under-5 child mortality globally. Progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing under-5 mortality is lagging in many countries, particularly in Africa. This paper shares evidence and insights from a low-cost behavior-change innovation in a rural area of Mozambique. INTERVENTION About 50,000 households with pregnant wome...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a clinical state resulting in prolonged hospital stay, increase in severity of infections and poor wound healing. AIMS Our aim was to investigate the prevalence and etiologic factors of malnutrition in medical inpatients. STUDY DESIGN A total of 290 consecutively admitted internal medicine patients from February to May 2012 were included. On admission, demographic...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional status of elderly by use of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) tol and to compare the MNA scores with socioeconomic variables. Methods: 400 elderly males and elderly females were selected from Nagpur city, Maharashtra, India. The information on socio-demographic attributes of elderly was recorded. Nutritional status was assessed using M...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the effects of zinc supplementation on growth parameters in a representative sample of young children in rural Burkina Faso. Design Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled efficacy trial. Setting Eighteen villages in rural northwestern Burkina Faso. Subjects In all, 709 children aged 6-31 months were enrolled; 685 completed the trial. Intervention Supplementation with ...

The work reported here sought to describe the feeding patterns of Chilean children up to 18 months old and their relation to nutritional status. To this end, a survey was conducted in 1993 of 9330 Chilean children under 18 months old who were receiving care through the National Health Service System-which provides care for 75% of all children under age 6. The children, whose mothers or caretake...

Background: Malnutrition is defined as deficiency and or imbalance of nutrients energy may produce a negative effect on the growth, maintenance, specific functions body. This study purposed to determine nutritional situation, define presence malnutrition, detect deficiencies micronutrients children admitted pediatric tertiary hospital. Methods: A retrospective, cross‑sectional, single unit-base...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of the present study were to assess the nutritional status, identify factors for malnutrition risk and evaluate barriers to adequate nutrition among recipients of the Public Assistance (PA) scheme for socio-economically disadvantaged Singaporeans. DESIGN Using a cross-sectional study design, we assessed PA recipients' malnutrition risk using the DETERMINE Nutritional ...

conclusions this study focused on important effects of malnutrition and inflammation on health-related quality of life aspects, both physically and mentally in hd patients. sga and mis are highly correlated with quality of life in hd patients. background malnutrition, inflammation and poor quality of life are prevalent among hemodialysis (hd) patients. health-related quality of life is an impor...