Dental caries is a significant health problem worldwide. The objectives of the study are to estimate the prevalence of caries and association of dental caries with eating habits, oral hygiene practice and literacy among the Chakhesang of Sodzulhou village. The main tool for data collection was oral examination along with personal observation. The finding of the study revealed that out of the to...

BACKGROUND The role played by lay knowledge in understanding health inequalities has received increased interest recently. Very little is known, however, about how lay knowledge of food and health varies across social class. The present exploratory study compared and contrasted ways in which people from different social backgrounds draw on and use different forms of lay knowledge about food and...

OBJECTIVE To discuss factors which have underpinned the nutrition transition in the countries of East Africa, including Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, from early colonisation to the current, oppressive political-economic structure. RESULTS Colonisation and neocolonisation in accordance with the desires of the New World Order have ensured the systematic extirpation of indigenous and traditional f...

Our body needs food everyday that supplies all the nutrients in required amount to keep the body healthy. But eating of food sometimes gets affected by socio- cultural factors that condition the dietary habits of the people which contribute significantly to nutritional deprivation in the communities, these faulty feeding habits arising from ignorance, superstitions, and social prejudices have b...

rapid changes in lifestyle and industrialization of communities have an important effect on food intake pattern of society. regarding the lack of enough data about dietary habits and nutrient intake of adolescents in our society, this study was performed in a group of adolescent girls in lahijan, north of iran. in this cross-sectional study, 400 high school girls aged 14-17 years selected by ra...