A recommendation of: Manon Hullot, Gildas Merceron, Pierre-Olivier Antoine Spatio-temporal diversity of dietary preferences and stress sensibilities early middle Miocene Rhinocerotidae from Eurasia: impact climate changes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.06.490903

BACKGROUND Identifying dietary patterns that consider the overall eating habits, rather than focusing on individual foods or simple counts of consumed foods, better helps to understand the combined effects of dietary components. Therefore, this study aimed to use dietary patterns, as an alternative method to dietary diversity scores (DDSs), and investigate their associations with childhood stun...

OBJECTIVE To identify and describe factors associated with food shop (known as tuck shop in South Africa) and lunchbox behaviours of primary-school learners in South Africa. DESIGN Analysis of data collected in 2008 from a cross-sectional survey. SETTING Sixteen primary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. SUBJECTS A total of 717 grade 4 learners aged 10-12 years. RESULTS A 24 h r...

Background: The role of dietary diversity on blood biomarkers may be significant, but the evidence is limited. Objective: This study assessed the association between dietary diversity and haematological status of children aged 6-59 months controlling for various known confounders. Design: The analysis in this study is based on the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health survey data.The study involved...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Inappropriate complementary feeding is a major cause of child malnutrition and death. This study determined the complementary feeding knowledge, practices, minimum dietary diversity, and acceptable diet among mothers of under-five children in an urban Local Government Area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted...

BACKGROUND More than 7.2 million pregnant women in developing countries suffer from vitamin A deficiency. The objective of this study was to assess dark adaptation threshold of pregnant women and related socio-demographic factors in Damot Sore District, Wolayita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional study design was employed to collect data from 104 pregnant women selected by a t...

Although food resource partitioning among sympatric species has often been explored in riverine systems, the potential influence of prey diversity on resource partitioning is little known. Using empirical data, we modeled food resource partitioning (assessed as dietary overlap) of coexisting juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and alpine bullhead (Cottus poecilopus). Explanatory variables in...