Sentences with phrase «malnourished children»

One question that keeps coming up at the meeting here is the paradox that compared with developed countries, some oral vaccines are less efficient in malnourished children in developing countries, even though such children show an overstimulation of their immune system in the gut.

Peanut butter, it seems, is the basis of a «ready - to - use therapeutic food» (RUTF) for aiding recovery of severely malnourished children in Africa.

MannaPack ™ Potato is a «first food» designed specifically for malnourished children with diarrhea.

MannaPack ™ - Potato is a «first food» designed specifically for malnourished children with diarrhea.

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).

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.

Action Against Hunger UK saves the lives of malnourished children by providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

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.

The endless stream of bad news — of natural disasters, of disease, of civil wars, of political instability, of aching poverty — that pour out of this continent, and its depiction through our media as a great monolith of barebacked and malnourished children living in mud huts, numbs us to the detail of Africa.

Kid Power Points unlock funding from partners, parents and fans, and funds are used by UNICEF to deliver lifesaving packets of therapeutic food to severely malnourished children around the world.

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

«Eating foods with balanced energy and protein and multiple micronutrients would probably have a larger effect for many malnourished children,» said Evan Mayo - Wilson, the lead author based at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

In fact, studies have shown that when fed the exact same diet, mice injected with gut microbes from malnourished children exhibited reduced growth when compared to mice that were given microbes from healthy children.

How does the suffering of malnourished children serve a «good purpose»?

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.

Malnourished children lay next to dying dogs on sidewalks that stink of garbage and refuse.

Weaning foods Studies during acute diarrhoea and experience gained in the rehabilitation of severely malnourished children show that weaning mixtures prepared from locally available foods are generally well tolerated.

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

Two gut pathogens commonly found in malnourished children combine to worsen malnutrition and impair growth in laboratory mice, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens.

Malnourished children often face infection with pathogenic microbes that colonize the intestines.

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

This nutrient - dense, vitamin - fortified food product made from peanuts, vegetable oil, powdered milk and sugar was designed to help severely malnourished children gain weight.

But malnourished children who live where sanitation is poor and diarrhea is a fact of daily life can not mount a protective immune response so easily.

In addition, results from a pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials of zinc supplementation in developing countries suggest that zinc helps reduce the duration and severity of diarrhea in zinc - deficient or otherwise malnourished children [62].

Food prices will more than double and the number of malnourished children spiral if climate change is not checked and developing countries are not helped to adapt their farming, food and water experts warned [continue reading...]

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Manna Pack ™ - Potato is a «first food» designed specifically for malnourished children with diarrhea, containing potato granules, soy flour, vitamins, minerals and sweet potato flavoring.

I'm always amazed when researchers discover that feeding malnourished children helps them to recover.

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

A non-profit that provides nutritionally complete meals specifically formulated for malnourished children.

As kids in the U.S. complete fitness - based missions, they earn points that can be used to «unlock» therapeutic food packets that UNICEF delivers to malnourished children around the world.

How many malnourished children could be saved if every classroom in the U.S. started doing UNICEF Kid Power Ups?

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.

Predictive Factors of Hyponatremia in Under - Five Severely Malnourished Children with Pneumonia Admitted to a Large Urban Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Nested Case - Control Design

Once they have lost enough protein, the abdomen swells up with fluid accumulation (recall photos of malnourished children with big stomachs?)

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.

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.

Singer, by the same argument, may seem like a monster, but he is the one whose philosophy saves both animals and malnourished children.

The faces of starving, malnourished children in a world that could produce enough food to feed every one of them are heartbreaking.

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

Unless I look like a malnourished child or tell you that I'm aspiring to become a bodybuilder, there's no reason to worry about my protein intake.

WHAT: One year after the earthquake in Haiti devastated millions of lives, 200 Boise volunteers will spend the afternoon assembling 100,000 MannaPack ™ Potato meals to send to malnourished children in Haiti and other impoverished areas around the globe.

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 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.

Kwashiorkor: A protein deficiency that's common in malnourished children.