News tagged with malnutrition
Scientists grow personalized collections of intestinal microbes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Each of us carries a unique collection of trillions of friendly microbes in our intestines that helps break down food our bodies otherwise couldn't digest.
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Experts: UN program to save children didn't work
(AP) -- The U.N. unveiled a multimillion dollar strategy a dozen years ago to save children worldwide, but a new study has found the program had surprisingly little effect in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries.
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Targeting oxidized cysteine through diet could reduce inflammation and lower disease risk
A team of scientists at Emory University School of Medicine has identified a direct link between oxidative stress and inflammatory signals in the blood. The finding could lead to improved strategies for preventing several ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 27, 2009 |
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'Most poor people don't live in the poorest countries'
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Oxford University study of 1.65 billion of the world's poor shows that over twice as many live in 'middle-income' countries as in 'low-income' countries.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Researchers identify site in brain where leptin may trigger puberty
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have pinpointed a tiny site in the brain where the hormone leptin may help trigger the onset of puberty.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Of moose and men: 50-year study into moose arthritis reveals link with early malnutrition
It's seen as a sign of getting old, but scientists have discovered that arthritis is not just a human problem as a study lasting 50 years reveals how moose suffer from an identical form of the condition. The ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Severe drought threatens millions in Somalia
(AP) -- A severe drought has plunged millions of Somalis into crisis after rains failed for several consecutive seasons in this Horn of Africa nation, and the U.N. and aid groups are warning of the possibility ...
Feb 03, 2011 |
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LSU identifies community conditions related to malnutrition deaths among older adults
In a paper published in the May 2010 issue of the scholarly journal Annals of Epidemiology, two LSU researchers tackle a problem seldom acknowledged in the United States - the incidence of malnutrition-related deaths among ...
May 12, 2010 |
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Smoking during pregnancy may harm the child's motor control and coordination
Women who smoke during pregnancy run the risk of adversely affecting their children’s coordination and physical control according to a new study from Orebro University, Sweden, published in the Journal of Epidemiology an ...
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Researchers uncover hormone pathway to fatty liver disease
Scientists at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute have discovered how a change in growth hormone activity in mice leads to fatty liver disease, a condition whose human counterpart is of rising concern worldwide.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 01, 2011 |
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British food activist wins Norwegian environmental prize
British food waste activist Tristram Stuart won Norway's Sophie Prize for environment and sustainable development Tuesday, the foundation behind the award said.
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Students coax yeast cells to add vitamins to bread
Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Hidden hunger from wildlife loss
How do you balance the need for biodiversity conservation and human health? For Christopher Golden, '05, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Harvard University Center for the Environment, that question is at the core ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Drought returns to Sahel, bringing hunger
(AP) -- For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not taken now, the region known as the ...
Jan 22, 2012 |
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Taste, odor intervention improves cancer therapy
Cancer and its therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, may directly alter and damage taste and odor perception, possibly leading to patient malnutrition, and in severe cases, significant morbidity, according to ...
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a general term for a medical condition caused by an improper or inadequate diet and nutrition. A number of different nutrition disorders may arise, depending on which nutrients are under or overabundant in the diet.
The World Health Organization cites hunger as the gravest single threat to the world's public health. Malnutrition is, by far, the biggest contributor to infant and child mortality, present in half of all cases. Malnutrition, in the form of iodine deficiency, is the most common cause of mental impairment, reducing the world's IQ by an estimated billion points. Improving nutrition is widely regarded as the most effective form of aid.
For more information about Malnutrition, read the full article at
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