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Sudan Joins Scaling up Nutrition Movement

Khartoum — The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan reported in its latest weekly bulletin of 23-29 November that the Sudanese government, in its efforts to reduce

Publication Date: 
07/12/2015
All Africa
Tags:
Health, Nutrition, Sudan, Malnutrition, Child Health, World Food Programme (WFP), Children, Africa
Health

Determinants of child health: an empirical analysis

Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and under-nutrition rates.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2015
Sowmya Dhanaraj
Madras School of Economics
Tags:
Child Health, Nutrition, Infant mortality, India, Diseases, Malnutrition, Children
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Estimating the cost of delivering direct nutrition interventions at scale: National and subnational level insights from India

Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide in terms of lives lost, forgone productivity, healthcare spending, and reduced lifetime earnings. In India, nutrition policies recognize the multifaceted nature of interventions necessary to accelerate progress in nutrition.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2015
Purnima Menon, C. M. McDonald, Suman Chakrabarti
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Nutrition, India, Health, Poverty, Child Health, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Finance
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Folic Acid and Creatine as therapeutic approaches to lower blood arsenic: A randomized controlled trial

The World Health Organization estimates that > 140 million people worldwide are exposed to arsenic (As)–contaminated drinking water. As undergoes biologic methylation, which facilitates renal As elimination. In folate-deficient individuals, this process is augmented by folic acid (FA) supplementation, thereby lowering blood As (bAs). Creatinine concentrations in urine are a robust predictor of As methylation patterns.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2015
Brandilyn A. Peters, Megan N. Hall, Xinhua Liu & et al
Environmental Health Perspectives
123
12
1294-1301
Tags:
Arsenic, Drinking Water Quality, Nutrition, Bangladesh, South Asia, Research, Groundwater Pollution, Health Effects
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AfDB plans US$3bn facility to improve food nutrition

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has taken a giant step toward improved food nutrition and security with plans to develop a US$300million facility that will leverage about US$3billion from banks

Publication Date: 
25/11/2015
Ghana Web (Ghana)
Tags:
Health, Nutrition, Ghana, Food Security, Africa, Agriculture
Health

More than 18 million women severely undernourished in developing countries: study

More than 18 million women in the developing countries, including India, Senegal and Sierra Leone, are severely undernourished, according to a study published Tuesday by the U.S. journal JAMA.

Publication Date: 
25/11/2015
Shanghai Daily (China)
Tags:
Health, Nutrition, Women, Malnutrition, Global, Developing Countries, India, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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Personalized nutrition by prediction of glycemic responses

Elevated postprandial blood glucose levels constitute a global epidemic and a major risk factor for prediabetes and type II diabetes, but existing dietary methods for controlling them have limited efficacy. Here, we continuously monitored week-long glucose levels in an 800-person cohort, measured responses to 46,898 meals, and found high variability in the response to identical meals, suggesting that universal dietary recommendations may have limited utility.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
19/11/2015
David Zeevi, Tal Korem, Niv Zmora & et al
Cell
1-17
Tags:
Nutrition, Health, Diabetes, Non Communicable Diseases
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Improving nutrition outcomes with better water, sanitation and hygiene: practical solutions for policy and programme

A growing body of evidence indicates that access to safe drinking-water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services has an important positive impact on nutrition. Achieving the six Global Nutrition Targets 2025, as well as global goals for WASH and health, will require greater investments in nutrition and WASH.

Publication Date: 
19/11/2015
World Health Organization
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Nutrition, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Tropical Diseases, Diseases, Health Effects, Global, Human Rights, Food Security
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Energy drinks may increase blood pressure: Study

Consumption of energy drinks may lead to increase in blood pressure, which can cause risk of serious cardiovascular events, a new study has claimed.

Publication Date: 
10/11/2015
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Energy Drinks, Hypertension (Blood Pressure), Nutrition, Health Effects, Health
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30% of kids in Bengaluru slums underweight: CRY survey

The anganwadi at a slum in southeast Bengaluru opens at 10.30am, but a group of barefooted children, clad in old and torn clothes throng the premises by 9am itself.

Publication Date: 
04/11/2015
Times Of India (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Bangalore (T), Child Health, Malnutrition, Nutrition, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), CRY, Health

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