Obesity must be considered a real pathology. In the world wide, obesity represent one of the
major public health issue associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Overweight or …

Abstract Evaluation of body composition is an important part of assessing nutritional status
and provides prognostically useful data and an opportunity to monitor the effects of nutrition …

Objective Fetal growth is associated with long-term health yet no appropriate standards exist
for the early identification of undergrown or overgrown fetuses. We sought to develop …

Background A third of the 2· 5 billion people worldwide without access to improved
sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1· 1 billion practising open defecation and a …

Background Insulin resistance (IR) and the consequences of compensatory
hyperinsulinemia are pathogenic factors for a set of metabolic abnormalities, which …

Background Stimulation and nutrition delivered through health programmes at a large scale
could potentially benefit more than 200 million young children worldwide who are not …

Because of the key role played by the body's lean tissue reserves (of which skeletal muscle
is a major component) in the response to injury and illness, its maintenance is of central …

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Although the prevalence of childhood obesity, as assessed by BMI
(kg/m2), has tripled over the last 3 decades, this index is a measure of excess weight rather …

Background Powders containing iron and other micronutrients are recommended as a
strategy to prevent nutritional anaemia and other micronutrient deficiencies in children. We …

Objective: To develop waist circumference percentile curves for British children and to
compare these curves with those from other countries. Design: Cross-sectional study …