Meeting the high nutrient needs of pregnant and lactating women and their young children in regions such as South Asia is challenging because diets are dominated by staple foods with low nutrient density and poor mineral bioavailability. Gaps in nutritional adequacy in such populations probably date back to the agricultural revolution ~10 000 years ago. Options for improving diets during the fi...

The perception of healthy growth and weight may differ between cultures, which could influence feeding practises and consequently affect the development of overweight. The present study examined ethnic variation in maternal perceptions of growth and their influence on feeding practises among Turkish and Dutch infants aged 0-6 months. Data were obtained from the mothers of 143 Turkish and 143 Du...

Posyandu cadres in Padukuhan Tiyasan Condongcatur are part of increasing the success stunting reduction Sleman Regency. The cadre problems limited knowledge about and nutritious food sources for toddlers lack skills processing locally-based foods. This service activity's implementation methods education, training, mentoring. There two main stages implementing program, first stage education an e...

Supplementary feeding of birds may have considerable ecological and evolutionary effects on bird communities. However, there is a lack basic information the prevalence, frequency quality supplementary feeders, especially in African urban areas. Here we describe reliability artificial nectar feeders suburbs Cape Floristic Region, South Africa, where many bird-pollinated plant species occur. Resu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship of delivery type, maternal anesthesia, feeding modalities, and first feeding and meconium passage times with early bilirubin levels of healthy infants. METHODS Cord, 24 hours' and 48 hours' total bilirubin levels were measured in 388 study infants. RESULTS Infants born with cesarean section were fed later and more often had mixed feeding. First meco...

Human childhood may be divided in to three stages Infancy, Weaning and Pre-school stage. Although breast feeding is beneficial for the optimum growth of the children, prolonged breast feeding without appropriate complementary feeding is crucial contributory factor for malnutrition among young children. Therefore, supplementation has to be implemented after four to six months to overcome malnutr...