Mahmud Abdulkader Mahmud, Mark Spigt, Afework Mulugeta Bezabih, Ignacio Lopez Pavon, Geert-Jan Dinant & Roman Blanco Velasco·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: To assess the impact of hand-washing with soap and nail clipping on the prevalence of anaemia and thinness among school-aged children. Methods: We randomly assigned 369 parasite negative school-aged children to receive both, one or the other, or neither of the interve...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20983
Objectives: Micronutrient Powders (MNP) have been shown to reduce anaemia among young children and are reportedly easy-to-use for home fortification of complementary foods. Many countries are considering implementing MNP. However, to facilitate optimal implementation, formative r...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21094
Objectives: Achievement the complete elimination of iodine deficiency and control of the situation is necessary to establish a well-functioning monitoring model using clearly-defined evaluation criteria and methodology. In this regard, the purpose is implementation of iodine stat...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20984
Objectives: Identifying cost-effective strategies for delivering efficacious nutrient supplements is a policy challenge, especially in rural areas. This paper examines the effects of alternative distribution outlet schemes on transportation costs of 3,146 households in the Dandé...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21242
Objectives: The general objective of the research was to develop value added food products (Bread and Biscuit) through supplementation of Fenugreek flour. The specific objectives was to study the proximate composition, anti-nutritional factors, physical properties, sensory analys...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20986
Objectives: EsIAN is designed to improve nutritional outcomes through a strong behavior change campaign and free distribution of nutritional products (micronutrient powders, MNP and/or a fortified complementary food, FCF) for children 6 m to 5 y of age living in poverty. Both pr...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21243
Objectives: Recently, India has witnessed an increase in the number of public private partnerships (PPP) in various areas except nutrition. This paper explores barriers to private investment in improving nutrition outcomes in India, highlights success stories and recommends areas...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20987
Objectives: To evaluated the potential of combinations of MIR, TXRF and XRD techniques for prediction of soil properties. Methods: Using Random Forests (RF) algorithm, MIR prediction of soil properties for a set of geo-referenced soil samples associated with the Africa Soil Infor...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21095
Objectives: In India, 56% of adolescent girls are anemic. In response to this situation and building on 13 years of evidence-generation using a knowledge-centred framework (evidence, innovation, evaluation and replication), India's adolescent girls anemia control programme was un...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20988
Stephen Vosti, Reina Engle-Stone, Justin Kagin, Joanne Arsenault, Robert Hijmans, Ryan Murphy, Erica Rettig, Ann Tarini & Kenneth H. Brown·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Micronutrient (MN) interventions are generally undertaken at national scale. New spatially disaggregated data on MN deficiencies in Cameroon suggest that subnational strategies may be more efficient, but methods to choose among alternative interventions are needed. ...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21244
Objectives: Food development in the European Union (EU) is subject to changes, based on developments in food legislation or on changing demands in food composition for better nutrition and improved public health. Methods: The legal environment in Europe is laid down in Regulation...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20989
Parmi Suchdev, O. Yaw Addo, Frederick Grant, Reynaldo Martorell, Laird Ruth, Minal Patel, Patricia Juliao, Rob Quick & Rafael Flores-Ayala·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Although micronutrient powders (MNPs) are considered the preferred approach for childhood anemia control, concerns about iron-related morbidity from clinical trials challenge programmatic scale-up. We aimed to measure the association of community-based sales of MNPs w...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21213
Objectives: Integrated Risk-Benefit Analysis (RBA) compares the risk of a situation to its related benefits and addresses the acceptability of the risk. Over the past years RBA in relation to food and food ingredients has gained attention. Food, and even the same food ingredient,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20990
Objectives: To characterize current feeding practices and to evaluate the adequacy of selected micronutrient intakes of young children in subsistence farming rural households in North Wollo, Ethiopia. Methods: Using a cross-sectional survey on 76 breastfed young children (aged 12...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21096
Objectives: Governmental research institutes in Europe/world are confronted with the problem that good scientific reports are produced directly for governmental sponsors and are published on an institute's website only. However, scientists like to publish their work in the scient...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20991