Background: Vitamin D insufficiency is an overall scourge with late gauges showing that more prominent than 50 % of the worldwide populace in danger. Protein-energy malnutrition probably going to be related nutrient admission insufficiency. The point this review was survey serum vitamin and its medical issue youngsters protein energy ailing health deficiency on rise as a major public problem In...

Many children suffer from nutritional deficiencies that may negatively affect their academic performance. This cluster-randomized controlled trial aimed to test the effects of micronutrient-fortified milk in Chinese students. Participants received either micronutrient-fortified (n = 177) or unfortified (n = 183) milk for six months. Academic performance, motivation, and learning strategies were...

The efficacy studies conducted for six months revealed a significant increase in Haemoglobin and serum ferritin and a significant decrease in total iron binding capacity in the subjects consumed iron-fortified rice, but more so in the subjects consumed rice fortified with iron along with either vitamin A or beta-carotene. Likewise, the serum retinol was significantly increased in children recei...

BACKGROUND Increased awareness of the wide spectrum of activity of vitamin D has focused interest on its role in the health of Canada's Aboriginal peoples, who bear a high burden of both infectious and chronic disease. Cutaneous vitamin D synthesis is limited at northern latitudes, and the transition from nutrient-dense traditional to nutrient-poor market foods has left many Canadian Aboriginal...

Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) is a serious public health issue involving large number of population around the globe especially from the developing countries. In Pakistan, the iron deficiency is a crucial nutritional problem and almost one fifth of country’s women are suffering. For community based management of IDA, iron fortification in various food commodities is considered to be the best ap...

Low vitamin D status is common in the United States and Europe with 8% and 13% of the population, respectively, reported to have serious vitamin D deficiency (i.e. serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration <30 nmol/L) [1,2]. There is a considerable mismatch between current intakes of vitamin D and recommended target intakes for the vitamin [3]. Fortification of a wider range of foods wi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate vitamin D levels in Saudi newborns utilizing umbilical cord samples, and to benchmark the results with international figures. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between November 2013 and March 2013. Vitamin D levels were assessed in the umbilical cord of healthy term neonates born above 2.5 kg from ...

AIM To determine the contribution of food and vitamin D supplements on the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D₃ (25(OH)D₃) concentration between October and April in a northern country (almost absent vitamin D synthesis by sunlight). METHODS Children aged 1-18 years were selected who visited the general pediatrician with a complaint whereby serum 25(OH)D₃ concentration was determined. The intake of vit...

The role of vitamin D in calcium and phosphate homeostasis is well known; however, in addition to traditional functions, vitamin D modulates a variety of processes, and evidence shows that it has an important role in different allergic diseases such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, and food allergy. Vitamin D acts by binding to the vitamin D receptor, which is present in a variety of tissues; for ...