Background Street foods vary with respect to their nutritional value and safety characteristics
and contribute to a sizable proportion of food intake in many populations worldwide …

In this paper, we conducted a narrative review to describe age-specific characteristics that
inform how children and adolescents interact with their food systems and how that …

Compulsory school-dropout is a serious problem affecting not only the education systems,
but also the developmental progress of any country as a whole. Identifying the risk of …

The current study sought to investigate the joint effect of maternal marital status and type of
household cooking fuel on child nutritional status in sub-Saharan Africa. Data in the …

Background Nutrition knowledge contributes significantly to the nutritional status and habits
of individuals as it influences their food consumption. And body mass index (BMI) of …

Health agendas for low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) should embrace and afford
greater priority to urban family planning to help achieve a number of the global Sustainable …

Childhood stunting is a public health concern in many low-and-middle income countries, as
it is associated with both short-term and long-term negative effects on child cognitive …

Objective: To determine whether the prevalence of stunting differed between an intervention
group and a control group and to identify factors associated with the children's linear growth …

Most cereal crops, including maize (Zea mays L.), are deficient in essential amino acids,
such as lysine and tryptophan; hence they are poor in protein quality. A mutant maize with …

Background In Liberia, an estimated 32% of children under 5 are stunted. Malnutrition and
hunger worsened during the country's civil war and were further exacerbated by the 2014 …