this study tries to examine the factors affecting nutrition disorders among postgraduate students of ferdowsi university of mashhad. the data was analyzed through survey method and optimal stratified sampling, and multiple and logistic regression with the sample size of 260 girl students of postgraduate levels. the results show that eating disorders mean is 2.22 out of 5 which is less than aver...

BACKGROUND There is growing awareness that the necessary solutions for improving nutrition outcomes are multisectorial. As such, investments are increasingly directed toward "nutrition-sensitive" approaches that not only address an underlying or basic determinant of nutrition but also seek to achieve an explicit nutrition goal or outcome. Understanding how and where official development assista...

General Intensive Care Department, Institute for Nutrition Research, Rabin Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Beilinson Hospital, Petah Tikva 49100, Israel Correspondence to: Pierre Singer, MD. General Intensive Care Department, Institute for Nutrition Research, Rabin Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Beilinson Hospital, Kaplan Street...

British Journal of General Practice, December 2007 data are automatically entered. However, it can be difficult to know howmany people you have invited to complete a survey, and hence it can be difficult to calculate a response rate. Response rates can be very low, making it difficult to draw any conclusions from the data. Heneghan et al and Cals et al have avoided these pitfalls by using a def...

The discussions at the Workshop were restricted specifically to the nutritional problems of families who move from rural to urban areas. The phrase 'New Urban Families' has been used to describe them. It is clear that the magnitude and the nature of the problems differ markedly in different countries. It is also evident that some of the problems relating to their nutrition are generally applica...