India has been food secure and children had access to essential health and nutrition
services for four decades but under-nutrition rates in children continue to be high. Despite …

Indian stakeholders need to carefully reflect on the milk–cereal mix supplementation study
(1), before refashioning policy based on authors' recommendation:“Complementary feeding …

Background Fortified complementary foods are centrally processed foods enriched with
essential micronutrients with the aim of preventing or correcting deficiency of one or more …

Introduction Nutrition is very essential for the children below five years of age. Insufficient
nutrients intake during early phases of development, predisposes them to develop …

Background: Malnutrition in children is a major health issue in Egypt, and weak recovery
rates result from standard treatment, which meets international guidelines. In pilot trials of …

Background/Introduction: WHO recommended 'ready to use therapeutic food'(RUTF) for
community-based management (CMAM) of severely malnourished children (SMC). This is …

Background: Under-nutrition is a big risk factor for increasing the morbidity and mortality
burden in the society. Acute malnutrition contributes to almost 61% of diarrheal and 53% of …

Introduction: Treatment of SAM in India, which effects 21% of children in India and hugely
contributes to deaths and disability burden, has undergone a paradigm shift in recent past …

Objective: This study aims to ascertain the clinical range, predictors, socio-demographic
variables, and outcomes linked to severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Additionally, the findings …

Introduction: Severe acute malnutrition remains one of the major killers of children under five
years of age. Many studies have reported a lesser cure rate and least feasible including …