Toxic arsenic exposure discovered in Cornish private water supplies
It is widely appreciated that toxic arsenic in well water is a devastating environmental health issue overseas in developing countries such as Bangladesh.
May 11, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: developing-countries, health-issue, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, such-as-bangladesh, well-water, widely-appreciated
Breastfeeding is key component of World Bank’s new ‘Power of Nutrition’ fund
Greater use of breastfeeding could transform the health and economy of developing countries according to the World Bank.
December 2, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: developing-countries, diet, health, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, the-health, transform-the-health, world
Fresh milk, off the grid
Even though much of the population in developing countries is involved in agriculture, food security is virtually out of reach.
May 20, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: developing-countries, food-security, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, population, the-population, though-much, virtually-out
Economic growth has little impact on reducing undernutrition in children
A large study of child growth patterns in 36 developing countries published in The Lancet Global Health journal has found that, contrary to widely held beliefs, economic growth is at best associated with very small, and in some cases no declines in levels of stunting, underweight, and wasting.
March 27, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: child-growth, developing-countries, diet, economic-growth, health, lancet, lancet-global, large-study, nutrition / diet, some-cases, widely-held
Overweight and obesity in developing countries ‘alarming’
The ‘alarming’ rise in overweight and obese adults in developing countries is growing into a huge public health burden, says one of the authors of a new report from a UK think tank.
January 6, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: authors, developing-countries, diet, health-burden, huge-public, new-report, obese-adults, oncalldietitian.com, says-one, the-authors
The Importance Of Preventing Iron Deficiency
Iron deficiency is a worldwide problem, especially in developing countries and among infants and pregnant women. In infancy, iron deficiency is associated with poorer cognitive, motor, and social-emotional outcomes. In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers report on a 25-year follow-up of infants studied in Costa Rica for iron deficiency…
July 2, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 25-year-follow-up, blood / hematology, costa, costa-rica, developing-countries, infants-studied, iron-deficiency, journal, new-study, nutrition, pediatrics, poorer-cognitive, worldwide-problem
Breastfeeding Summit Highlights Ongoing Disparities In Breastfeeding
Despite efforts to reduce disparities in breastfeeding, only 44% of African-American women report that they breastfeed compared with 66 and 68% of Hispanic and white women, respectively. According to UNICEF, there is a 14-fold difference in survival rates in the first 6 months, in developing countries, between children who have been breastfed exclusively and non-breastfed children…
October 22, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 14-fold-difference, been-breastfed, between-children, breastfeed-compared, developing-countries, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, reduce-disparities, survival-rates, the-first, women-report
‘Plastic Bottle’ Solution For Arsenic-Contaminated Water Threatening 100 Million People
With almost 100 million people in developing countries exposed to dangerously high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, and unable to afford complex purification technology, scientists today described a simple, inexpensive method for removing arsenic based on chopped up pieces of ordinary plastic beverage bottles coated with a nutrient found in many foods and dietary supplements…
September 2, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: based-on-chopped, beverage-bottles, developing-countries, diet, drinking, high-levels, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, ordinary-plastic, scientists-today, their-drinking
Food Price Crisis Can Lead To Deteriorating Nutrition
As fuel prices soar, food prices are beginning to creep up to crisis levels most recently seen in 2007. “Coupled with the financial crisis, high food prices can take a significant toll on nutrition, especially in developing countries,” says Lora Iannotti, PhD, a public health expert and professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St.
April 26, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: crisis-levels, developing-countries, financial, financial-crisis, food-prices, fuel-prices, high-food, iannotti, nutrition / diet
MSF Calls For Donor Countries To Improve Food Aid Nutrition Standards On Eve Of World Food Day
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) released a statement in advance of Saturday’s World Food Day saying that the “world’s biggest donors of food aid … continued to supply and fund nutritionally ‘substandard’ food to developing countries, despite scientific evidence showing it was of little value in reducing child malnutrition,” Reuters AlertNet reports…
October 18, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: biggest-donors, despite-scientific, developing-countries, evidence-showing, food-aid, frontieres, little-value, medecins-sans, msf, nutrition / diet, on call diets, reducing-child, reuters-alert, world, world-food