India is an agricultural country and the majority of India's population live in rural areas. This is so in Karnataka, a state in southern India. The present report consists of a detailed nutrition situation analysis. Karnataka has a population of 45 million, which is approximately 3-5% of India's population. One in every two women are agricultural labourers, reflecting women's predominance in t...

India is often thought of as a development paradox with relatively high economic growth rates in the past few years, but with lower progress in areas of life expectancy, education and standard of living. While serious inequalities in growth, development and opportunity explain the illusion of the paradox at the country level, still, a significant proportion of the world's poor live in India, as...

Purpose. To assess the state of nutrition education at US medical schools and compare it with recommended instructional targets. Method. We surveyed all 133 US medical schools with a four-year curriculum about the extent and type of required nutrition education during the 2012/13 academic year. Results. Responses came from 121 institutions (91% response rate). Most US medical schools (86/121, 7...

Service. The Committee wishes to express its warm thanks to Dr. Milton Z. Nichaman, Director, Nutrition Program, Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) , Atlanta, Georgia, and his staff for their generous cooperation and assistance in making the survey data available to the Committee. Much of the data upon which this statement is based appears in Ten-State Nutrition Survey. 19681970, DHEW, Publicat...

This paper analyses the level of malnutrition among women and children from disadvantaged groups in India. In India, economic productivity has increased and impressive efforts have been made in nutrition interventions, but significant improvement in nutritional status has not accompanied these advances. While aggregate levels of undernutrition are shockingly high, the picture is further exacerb...

2009;22(1) S Afr J Clin Nutr a Hattingh Z, PhD a Walsh C, PhD b Veldman FJ, PhD c Bester CJ, BScHons a Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of the Free State, b Fibrinogen Unit, Central University of Technology, Free State, c Department of Biostatistics, University of the Free State Correspondence to: Zorada Hattingh, e-mail: [email protected]