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  1. Climate change, obesity and undernutrition have now become a worldwide syndemic that threatens most people’s health and natural systems in the twenty-first century. Adolescent malnutrition appears to be a matt...

    Authors: Janice Ee Fang Tay, Serene En Hui Tung, Satvinder Kaur, Wan Ying Gan, Nik Norasma Che’Ya and Choon Hui Tan
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:24
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  2. Breast milk is the first natural food for babies. It has nutritional, immunological, developmental, psychological, societal and environmental advantages. Failing to feed children for twenty-four months has so ...

    Authors: Kidus Temesgen, Eshetu Andarge, Teshale Fikadu, Muluken Bekele, Yilma Chisha, Habtamu Esubalew and Temesgen Mohammed Toma
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:22
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  3. The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising rapidly in Malaysia. Modifying dietary intake is key to both the prevention and treatment of T2DM. This study aims to investigate the pattern of macro...

    Authors: Zaleha Md Isa, Noor Hassim Ismail, Azmi Mohd Tamil, Mohd Hasni Jaafar, Rosnah Ismail, Nor Ashikin Mohamed Noor Khan, Nafiza Mat Nasir, Nurul Hafiza Ab Razak, Najihah Zainol Abidin and Khairul Hazdi Yusof
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:21
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nutrition 2023 9:27

  4. Many indigenous communities reside in biodiverse environments replete with natural food sources but show ​poor access and utilization.

    Authors: Archna Singh, Ayushi Dhasmana, Ashish Bandhu, Ridhima Kapoor, Sivasankar Baalasubramanian and Suparna Ghosh-Jerath
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:20
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  5. The increased frequency of climate induced natural disasters has exacerbated the risks of malnutrition in the already vulnerable regions. This study was aimed at exploring the effects of Cyclone Idai on nutrit...

    Authors: Vimbainashe Prisca Dembedza, Prosper Chopera, Jacob Mapara, Nomalanga Mpofu-Hamadziripi, George Kembo and Lesley Macheka
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:19
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  6. Colostrum avoidance is failure to feed first breast milk to a newborn baby for the first 2 to 3 days after delivery. The problem of avoiding colostrum is prevalent in Ethiopia. But it is not adequately address...

    Authors: TekleBuche Asaro, Befikadu Tariku Gutema and Haymanot Nigussie Weldehawaryat
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:18
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  7. Stunting among children of ages 24-59 months is a major public health challenge in developing countries. It has been linked with poor water quality, water accessibility, a lack of environmental sanitation, and...

    Authors: Biruk Woldesenbet, Alemu Tolcha and Berhan Tsegaye
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:17
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  8. Evidence on the association of insulinemic effects of dietary pattern and other lifestyle factors with the odds of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are limited. In the current study, we aimed to exami...

    Authors: Aref Momeni, Rouhollah Haghshenas and Soodeh Razeghi Jahromi
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:16
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  10. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is involved in 40% of patients with type 2 diabetes, Phytochemical index (PI) foods are known as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents. Higher intake of phytochemicals can improve ...

    Authors: Niki Bahrampour, Atieh Mirzababaei, Dorsa Hosseininasab, Faezeh Abaj, Cain C. T. Clark and Khadijeh Mirzaei
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:14
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  12. While necessary for studying dietary decision-making or public health, estimates of nutrient supply based on self-reported food intake are barely accessible or fully lacking and remain a challenge in human res...

    Authors: Ronja Thieleking, Lennard Schneidewind, Arsene Kanyamibwa, Hendrik Hartmann, Annette Horstmann, A. Veronica Witte and Evelyn Medawar
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:12
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  13. In 2016, Chile implemented the Food Labeling and Advertising Law to fight childhood obesity through front-of-package food labelling, marketing restrictions and school activities and programs. Nevertheless, lit...

    Authors: Franziska Pfister and Claudia Pozas
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:11
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  14. Epidemiological studies often investigate amino acids and their metabolites as biomarkers, but do not always consistently use fasting or non-fasting blood samples, or may lack information on the prandial statu...

    Authors: Ingrid V. Hagen, Anita Helland, Marianne Bratlie, Øivind Midttun, Adrian McCann, Arve Ulvik, Gunnar Mellgren, Per M. Ueland and Oddrun A. Gudbrandsen
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:10
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  15. The co-occurrence of anaemia and stunting (CAS) presents acute development and morbidity challenges to children particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Evidence on the effect of child feeding recommendations...

    Authors: Aaron Kobina Christian, Eric Afful-Dadzie and Grace S. Marquis
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:9
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  16. In infant and young child feeding practice parents are the primary agents for childcare activities, such as feeding. Mothers’ role in infant and young child feeding practice has been the focus of previous rese...

    Authors: Amare Abebe Wolkanto, Tsegaye Demissie Gemebo, Samson Kastro Dake and Tewodros Getachew Hailemariam
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:8
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  17. Breakfast is considered the day’s most important meal. Skipping breakfast consumption is detrimental to health and intellectual performance. University life has tight schedules and rigorous intellectual activi...

    Authors: Regina Enyonam Adonu, Millicent Amoah and Farrukh Ishaque Saah
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:7
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  18. Despite their low energy density and high nutrient content, legumes may be under-recognised as a beneficial food for the prevention and management of obesity and related diseases, such as cardiovascular diseas...

    Authors: Mohd Hasni Jaafar, Noor Hassim Ismail, Rosnah Ismail, Zaleha Md Isa, Azmi Mohd Tamil, Mazapuspavina Md Yasin, Nafiza Mat Nasir, Nurul Hafiza Ab Razak, Najihah Zainol Abidin, Mahshid Dehghan and Khairul Hazdi Yusof
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:6
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  19. Food Insecurity (FI) is a global health concern. For the first time, this study evaluated households’ food insecurity and factors related to it in Golestan province, North of Iran.

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Honarvar, Masoomeh Gholami, Zahra Abdollahi, Farzaneh Sadeghi Ghotbabadi, Farhad Lashkarboluki, Majid Najafzadeh, Mohsen Mansouri, Gholamreza Veghari and Nasser Behnampour
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:5
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  20. Household food insecurity is a state in which household members experienced limited or uncertain physical and economic access to safe, plenty, and healthy food to meet the dietary needs for a fruitful, healthy...

    Authors: Gizachew Yohannes, Eskinder Wolka, Temesgen Bati and Tadele Yohannes
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:4
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  22. Nutritional intake plays an important role in determining energy availability which is vital to health, wellbeing, and sports performance in an active population. This research assessed the sports undergraduat...

    Authors: W. A. W. S. Rupasinghe, T. S. H. Perera, K. D. R. R. Silva, S. Samita and M. Nirmali Wickramaratne
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:2
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  23. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation on body composition and anthropometric measures of nursing mothers.

    Authors: Zohre Gerveieeha, Fereydoun Siassi, Mostafa Qorbani, Rezgar Shahi Menbar, Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi and Gity Sotoudeh
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2023 9:1
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  24. Wasting (acute malnutrition) is the most serious form of malnutrition for children in the near term. Malnutrition has a variety of causes, all of which are interconnected and hierarchically related. The purpos...

    Authors: Helen Ali Ewune, Reta Kassa Abebe, Daniel Sisay and Getanew Aschalew Tesfa
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:160
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  25. Adolescent population Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) is uncommon in low-income settings. Though Global Diet Quality Score is a good measure of dietary diversity, it has not been used in assessing nutritional...

    Authors: Walelegn Worku Yallew, Amare Worku Tadesse, Ramadhani Abdallah Noor, Wafaie Fawzi and Yemane Berhane
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:159
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nutrition 2023 9:15

  26. COVID-19 is a very harmful pandemic, and its recovery process is highly influenced by nutritional status; however, an appropriate nutritional scale has not yet been proposed for these patients. Therefore, the ...

    Authors: Babak Alikiaii, Seyed Taghi Hashemi, Zahra Kiani, Zahra Heidari, Behzad Nazemroaya, Mohammad Golparvar, Somayyeh Daneshmanesh, Shirin Fattahpour, Sepide Amini, Mehrnaz Shojaei and Mohammad Bagherniya
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:158
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  27. To evaluate the effect of a diet pattern based on Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), in a controlled feeding setting, on plasma markers of inflammation and on cytokine production by peripheral blood monon...

    Authors: Sridevi Krishnan, Tammy Freytag, Xiaowen Jiang, Gertrud U. Schuster, Leslie R. Woodhouse, Nancy L. Keim and Charles B. Stephensen
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:157
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  28. Due to the growing global trend of obesity, it is necessary to study the diet quality as a modifiable factor to reduce the dangerous consequences of obesity. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate th...

    Authors: Esmail Alipour Nosrani, Maryam Majd, Elham Bazshahi, Fatemeh Mohtashaminia, Hanieh Moosavi, Reza Ramezani, Hossein Shahinfar, Farhang Djafari, Sakineh Shab-Bidar and Abolghassem Djazayery
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:156
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  29. Amino acids (AAs) are important bioactive components in the diet that can be involved in various underlying biological processes that contribute to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). ...

    Authors: Ebrahim Mokhtari, Hamid Ahmadirad, Farshad Teymoori, Azadeh Mohammadebrahim, Samaneh Sadat Bahrololomi and Parvin Mirmiran
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:155
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  30. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic disease with many complications among which is growth retardation. Here, we described the growth and nutritional status patterns of children with SCD and adolescents livi...

    Authors: Eposse Ekoube Charlotte, Mbono Betoko Ritha Carole, Ida Penda Calixthe, Mony Elimbi Jeanne Georgette, Epee Patricia, Hassanatou Iyawa, Mandeng Ma Linwa Edgar, Budzi Michael Ngenge, Ntsoli Kofane Gaelle, Ekame Bulu Bianca Claudia, Sajida Misse Dicka, Koki Ndombo Paul and Kedy Mangamba Koum Daniele-Christiane
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:154
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  31. The present study aims to estimate the factors contributing to the change adequate diversified dietary intake (ADDI) from 2005–06 to 2015–16 among children aged 6–23 months in India.

    Authors: Divya Bhati, Abhipsa Tripathy, Prem Shankar Mishra and Shobhit Srivastava
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:153
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  33. Food safety and hygiene are currently a global health concern, especially in unindustrialized countries, as a result of increasing food-borne diseases (FBDs) and accompanying deaths. It has continued to be a c...

    Authors: Sanbato Tamiru, Kebebe Bidira, Tesema Moges, Milkias Dugasa, Bonsa Amsalu and Wubishet Gezimu
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:151
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  35. Dietary diversity has been recognized as a significant component of high-quality diets for children’s growth and development. Poor infant and young child feeding practices in the first one thousand days of age...

    Authors: Dejenu Assefa and Tefera Belachew
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:149
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  36. According to the 2018 Demographic and Health Survey, undernutrition remains a public health problem among Cameroonian children under-five. This varies across the country, greatest in areas with ongoing humanit...

    Authors: Andinwoh Betterdel Ngassa, Henry Dilonga Meriki, Clarence Mvalo Mbanga, Léonie Dapi Nzefa, Xikombiso Mbhenyane and Ayuk Betrand Tambe
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:148
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  37. Even though the existence of inequalities in fruit and vegetable consumption has been well established, it is not clear how it is patterned across intersections of multiple social positions and identities. Thi...

    Authors: Thomas Vogt and Per E. Gustafsson
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:147
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  38. Vitamin D (VD) insufficiency has now become a global problem throughout the world. The association between increasing body mass index (BMI) and VD insufficiency has attracted great attention in recent research...

    Authors: Farahnaz Joukar, Mehrnaz Asgharnezhad, Mohammadreza Naghipour, Kourosh Mojtahedi, Arsalan Salari, Alireza Mansour-Ghanaei and Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:146
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  39. Specific approaches are needed to reach and support people with a lower socioeconomic position (SEP) to achieve healthier eating behaviours. There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that digital health t...

    Authors: Amber Ronteltap, Andrea J. Bukman, Gera E. Nagelhout, Roel C. J. Hermans, Karen Hosper, Annemien Haveman-Nies, Remko Lupker and Catherine A. W. Bolman
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:145
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  40. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of intermittent fasting (IF) guidance, delivered through a smartphone application, in terms of engagement and weight loss.

    Authors: Sarunas Valinskas, Kasparas Aleknavicius, Marius Nakrys and Justinas Jonusas
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:144
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  41. Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) is primarily from the diet through canned foods. Characterizing dietary exposures can be conducted through biomonitoring and dietary surveys...

    Authors: Jennifer C. Hartle, Roy S. Zawadzki, Joseph Rigdon, Juleen Lam and Christopher D. Gardner
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:143
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  42. Obesity epidemic presents major challenge to chronic disease prevention. Young adults may be at higher risk due to consumption of energy dense foods/beverages and low physical activity. This study assessed the...

    Authors: Rufina N. B. Ayogu, Hannah Oshomegie and Elizabeth A. Udenta
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:142
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  43. Non-invasive human biospecimens, including stool, urine, and hair, are important in understanding the relationship between diet and changes in human physiologic processes that affect chronic disease outcomes. ...

    Authors: Amrik Singh Khalsa, Jonathan Burton, Michael T. Bailey, Jiangjiang Zhu, Kelly J. Kelleher, Ross M. Maltz, Brett R. Loman and Colleen K. Spees
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:141
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  44. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is defined as the excessive accumulation of fat in the liver cells of people who do not drink alcohol. The aim of study is investigated the association between low car...

    Authors: Fatemeh Yaghoubi, Mina Darand, Aazam Ahmadi Vasmehjani, Zahra Darabi, Nasir Talenezhad, Farhang Mirzavandi and Mahdieh Hosseinzadeh
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:140
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  45. Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) is an effective intervention at recovering children from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and preventing mortality. However, there is growing evidence tha...

    Authors: Chloe Puett, Sarah King and Heather Stobaugh
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:139
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  46. Dyslipidemia is a prominent cause of cardiovascular disease as it leads to inflammation and plaque deposition within arteries. Treatment includes lifestyle modifications and lipid-lowering medications. We aime...

    Authors: Ali Tavan, Saam Noroozi, Bardia Zamiri, Reza Gholchin Vafa, Mohammadhossein Rahmani, Mohammadjavad Mehdizadeh Parizi, Amin Ahmadi, Reza Heydarzade, Mohammad Montaseri, Seyed Ali Hosseini and Javad Kojuri
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:138
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  48. Inadequate food and water resources negatively affect child health and the efficiency of nutrition interventions.

    Authors: Nadia Koyratty, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya, Andrew D. Jones, Roseanne C. Schuster, Katarzyna Kordas, Chin-Shang Li, Naume V. Tavengwa, Florence D. Majo, Bernard Chasekwa, Robert Ntozini, Jean H. Humphrey and Laura E. Smith
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:136
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  50. The Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) can comprehensively identify undernutrition by combining several indicators of nutritional status – namely, weight-for-age, length/height-for-age and weight...

    Authors: Tria Astika Endah Permatasari and Yudi Chadirin
    Citation: BMC Nutrition 2022 8:133
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