Sentences with phrase «in malnourished children»

Among the ironies here was the impetus such political activity imparted to blocking the production of so - called «golden rice,» a nutritionally enhanced GM grain that public health advocates hailed for the contribution it could make to combating afflictions (including preventable blindness) in malnourished children in the developing world.

Roy, S. K., Raqib, R., Khatun, W., Azim, T., Chowdhury, R., Fuchs, G. J., and Sack, D. A. Zinc supplementation in the management of shigellosis in malnourished children in Bangladesh.

Dutta, P., Mitra, U., Datta, A., Niyogi, S. K., Dutta, S., Manna, B., Basak, M., Mahapatra, T. S., and Bhattacharya, S. K. Impact of zinc supplementation in malnourished children with acute watery diarrhoea.

In 1990, most years of healthy life were lost reportedly to undernutrition, such as diarrheal diseases in malnourished children, but now the greatest disease burden may be attributed to high blood pressure, a disease of overnutrition.

A healthy gut and good nutrition are important for a healthy immune system and a good immune response to vaccination, so it is not surprising that vaccines have been found to be less efficient in malnourished children.

Zinc supplements reduce diarrhea and other infections in malnourished children, and may prevent death, according to a new study published in The Cochrane Library.

They fed weaned mice a protein - deficient diet and infected them with Giardia lamblia and, two weeks later, enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC)-- two of the pathogens most commonly found in malnourished children.

They may also not have enough money to keep a steady supply so they use less than the recommended amount of formula and water it down to make it go further... resulting in malnourished children.

Complicating the problem is the poorer response to vaccination in malnourished children.

Not exact matches

Two Degrees For every nutrition bar San Francisco — based Two Degrees Food sells, the company donates a package of vitamin - and nutrient - enriched peanut butter to a malnourished child in Malawi.

It is widely believed that Bae angered government officials by taking photos of severely malnourished children and orphans in North Korea, in an effort to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis.

It is a world in which, from many causes, children are too easily stunted, warped, denied, deprived, abused, malnourished, diseased, shot, gassed, bombed and generally robbed of their potentiality.

Even if we can not know the answer to all of society's ills, even if we can not pretend to know how to solve the problems of crime and drugs and inflation and poverty, we can still proclaim that it is obviously and unquestionably a moral wrong to maintain a penal system based on vengeance instead of rehabilitation; to allow human rights violations to go unchallenged (on either side of the iron curtain); to waste vast quantities of food and resources while others are malnourished and sick and poor; or to allow so many children in our own midst to go through childhood unwanted and unloved and even abused.

Half of the 5.4 million people in need of assistance are children, and 1.2 million children under five years old are projected to be malnourished this year.»

Pierre says inspectors found that children at the home were living in unsanitary conditions and were malnourished.

The Philippines exports calories in the form of sugar and coconut oil every day, while half of the country's children are malnourished.

The report's co-author, senior IFPRI researcher Mark Rosegrant, said eating less meat could help ease this problem — resulting in a million fewer malnourished children by 2030 — as well as diversifying diets to include vegetables and fruits.

Eagle, ID, August 17, 2010 — Over 500 volunteers gathered at American Falls High School in American Falls, Idaho for the first mobile Manna Pack packing event to help assemble 300,000 Manna Pack ™ - Potato meals that will be shipped to countries around the world to help malnourished children, including those in Haiti.

In addition, we continued our donations of SPAMMY ®, a shelf - stable poultry product fortified with vitamins and minerals that is distributed to malnourished children in GuatemalIn addition, we continued our donations of SPAMMY ®, a shelf - stable poultry product fortified with vitamins and minerals that is distributed to malnourished children in Guatemalin Guatemala.

Given that Golden rice is promoted as a means to raise the standard of nutrition among poor and malnourished children, a diet so rich in meat, fat, protein and vegetables is unrealistic and thus uninformative as far as the enhanced nutrition of the «target group» is concerned.

Since 2012, Hormel Foods employees have traveled to Guatemala to participate firsthand in Project SPAMMY ®, the company's effort to help malnourished children in Guatemala in partnership with Food for the Poor and Caritas Arquidiocesana.

With no basic services and an entirely absent infrastructure, I saw malnourished children bathing in fetid water and playing in raw sewage.

Breast milk is a critical source of energy and nutrients during illness and reduces mortality among children who are malnourished.3 It reduces the risk of a number of acute and chronic diseases in early childhood and has long - term benefits for cardio - vascular health.4 In the context of HIV, early cessation of breastfeeding after six months is associated with increased serious morbidity, growth faltering, and increased mortalityin early childhood and has long - term benefits for cardio - vascular health.4 In the context of HIV, early cessation of breastfeeding after six months is associated with increased serious morbidity, growth faltering, and increased mortalityIn the context of HIV, early cessation of breastfeeding after six months is associated with increased serious morbidity, growth faltering, and increased mortality.5

To top it all off, this is a woman - owned start up that supports Project Peanut Butter (feeding malnourished children in Malawi and Sierra Leone).

They are very heavily invested in making sure the customers are happy and if they were giving out bad advice about formula preparation that was causing children to become malnourished, that would most certainly hurt their bottom line.

It is the time when many infants become malnourished, contributing significantly to the high prevalence of malnutrition in children under five years of age worldwide.»

A decrease in milk supply may go unnoticed, leading to a malnourished child that seems to be feeding but isn't.

And there's another link between hunger and obesity as well that I didn't mention — if a child is in a food - scarce household, he or she may miss meals and then overcompensate wildly at the first opportunity, which can also result in an obese but malnourished body.

Often, parents» rights are stepped on or eliminated altogether, and children who were previously well cared for end up malnourished or abused in foster homes.

Though well - meaning donors often give formula in camps for refugees and displaced persons, health campaigners are working to change this practice, too, noting that even if women are malnourished, their breast milk is probably healthier than formula, and that breastfeeding promotes bonding and a sense of security vital for women and children facing upheaval.

Treatment of severely malnourished children, whether facility or community based, should be implemented in accordance with international standards and best practice and closely monitored.

This baby food is made in the USA, and Happy Baby is a supporter of Project Peanut Butter, an organization that feeds malnourished children in Sierra Leone and Malawi.

Malnourished children are, in turn, more vulnerable to disease and the vicious circle is established.

Treatment of severe acute malnutrition Treatment of severely malnourished children, whether facility or community based, should be implemented in accordance with international standards and best practice and closely monitored.

Taking a comparative analysis of data to back his arguments, he described Nigeria as «one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth», with «one in three Nigerian children, chronically malnourished»

In one hospital at the camp I saw chronically malnourished children almost miraculously being brought back to life.

Pair charged with child abuse after malnourished girl found by mechanics when mother brought vehicle in for repair

Sad as these incidents involving farmers and herdsmen are, I wonder what the result will be if half the newsprint and airtime devoted to this is used to draw attention to malaria which kills 300,000 Nigerians every year; the 88,000 malnourished children and the 230,000 malnourished, pregnant women in the northeast, a quarter of whom the UNICEF said would most likely not make it.

Now nearly 50,000 children are facing death by starvation if they don't get food and almost 250,000 more are severely malnourished in Borno state, according to UNICEF.

There have been reports of cases of malnourished children and deaths at the IDP camps in the state.

Half a million children are dangerously malnourished in northeastern Nigeria.

So it wasn't as healthful as it could have been and that's why we had hungry and malnourished, particularly children, but also adults and there are still pockets of hunger in many many countries throughout the world, certainly in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but what happened is that the same people who were hungry and malnourished 20 years ago are today overweight and obese.

Vitamin A deficiency and measles both degrade epithelial cells, the protective coating on the organs, which is why secondary infections are much more common and much more severe in acutely malnourished children.

Several studies suggest parasite density is higher in acutely malnourished children, an indicator of more severe disease.

By IFPRI's estimate, 25 million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to the impact of climate change on global agriculture.

Liquid - based nutritional supplements, originally formulated for malnourished or undernourished children, need more regulatory oversight as they are increasingly marketed to promote growth in children generally, warn researchers at Emory University.

Gordon and Leulier plan to test that possibility in people, particularly malnourished children, this year with dietary interventions.

So he and Tahmeed Ahmed from the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh teamed up with Jeffrey Gordon, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, to collect monthly fecal samples from healthy and malnourished Bangladeshi children under 2.

More than 8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, 5.1 million are severely malnourished, most of them children.

The rodents have revealed that variations in gut bacteria may be at the heart of this disparity — and may also explain why some malnourished children respond better to nutritional supplements than others.