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“Many children, mainly six to 23 months old, have malnutrition in Madhesh. The main reason is a lack of awareness among the ...

Special report on the WHO recommended obesity measurement tests for kids, to tackle malnutrition and childhood obesity, with a special emphasis on the looming obesity epidemic. In an attempt to ...

In a one-room clinic in rural Madagascar, a wide-eyed baby boy named Mercia watched as his mother tore open a packet of something that looked like peanut butter. Mercia devoured the paste, leaving ...

By Gift Briton Since their inception in the late 1990s, ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs) have been the go-to option for treating severe malnutrition. RUTFs are nutrient-packed food pastes that ...

School lunches have never looked more attractive or been more nutritious. This past Monday, Shelly Ebert, a cook/cashier at Hutchinson Middle School, exercised care in making sure the salads she ...

The Perth parents who deliberately starved their only child, causing the emaciated teenager to suffer serious health ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has raised concerns over the high rate of malnutrition in North Eastern Nigeria, revealing that 3.7 million children in the region are ...

“It may be the single most powerful investment you’ve never really heard of,” said Shawn Baker, chief program officer of Helen Keller International, which works to end global malnutrition.

Severe malnutrition presenting as kwashiorkor or marasmus is still a significant health problem in developing countries (1,2). The HIV/AIDS epidemic has increased case fatality rates of severe ...