Sentences with phrase «evidenced by malnutrition»

They may be irresponsible as parents, as evidenced by malnutrition of a child, an illness in the child resulting from a \ aèk of minimal hygiene, a child's dependence on neighbors or nonresident relatives for food or shelter, a failure to arrange for a caretaker for a young child when the individual is away from home, or repeated squandering of money required for household necessities.

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HKI combats the causes and consequences of preventable blindness and malnutrition by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health, and nutrition.

There is real evidence that extended breastfeeding benefits children in the developing world, where young children are challenged by malnutrition and greater exposure to infectious diseases, which is why the World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for two years.

Compared to the hunter - gatherers who preceded them, the farmers had a nearly 50 per cent increase in enamel defects indicative of malnutrition, a fourfold increase in iron - deficiency anemia (evidenced by a bone condition called porotic hyperostosis), a theefold rise in bone lesions reflecting infectious disease in general, and an increase in degenerative conditions of the spine, probably reflecting a lot of hard physical labor.

Although there is substantial evidence that the virus can be transmitted by breast - feeding, the risk to infants is lower than the risks of death from other infections and malnutrition.

The report says the evidence linking climate change and bad health is growing: it quotes statistics compiled by the World Health Organisation estimating that, in the period 2030 to 2050, climate change will account for approximately 250,000 additional deaths each year around the world due to malnutrition, malaria, dengue fever, diarrhoea and heat stress.

First, the National Chief of the AFN and other leaders at the All - Chiefs Assembly in Whitehorse, July 16 - 18, addressed newly published evidence by a scholarly researcher that students at certain residential schools had been subjected to nutrition experiments which entailed deliberately depriving some students, already showing signs of malnutrition further deprivation of both food and health supplements such as vitamins.