Nutrition requirements

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Health problems and deaths due to vitamin and mineral deficiencies could be addressed quickly and cheaply: ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2007); The Micronutrient Initiative and UNICEF are issuing a global progress report on vitamin and mineral deficiency, along with damage assessment reports for 80 individual countries. This summary, targeted...
People have a right to nutritional foods, not just freedom from hunger: ( P. Webb; A. Thorne-Lyman / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2006); If death from crisis-related famines is typically the result of individuals’ ability to purchase available food, as Amartya Sen and others have frequently argued, solutions should address incomes and ...
Breastfeeding provides health benefits to the mother as well as the infant: ( LINKAGES Project , 2004); Recommended reading; This series from the Linkages Project provides programmatic guidance on breastfeeding and maternal and infant nutrition, focusing on developing countries. The first three documents respectively cover ...
How to nourish nonbreastfed children after six months of age: guiding principles: ( United Nations University , 2004); Recommended reading; This paper, published in Food and Nutrition Bulletin, describes the conclusions of a meeting convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), to identify guiding principles for feeding nonbreastfed ch...
A cradle-to-grave approach to women’s nutrition: training aid for trainers: ( N. Ntombela; M. Stone-Jimenez; J. Ross; L. Martin / LINKAGES Project , 2005); Recommended reading; Produced by the Linkages Project, this training module is intended to provide instructors with the basic theory to train health workers on women’s nutrition, with a focus on the complete life cycle. I...
Science-based guidelines on optimal feeding practices for breastfed children: ( K. Dewey / Pan American Health Organization , 2002); Recommended reading; This document, published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), provides guidelines for complementary feeding of breastfed children from 6 to 24 months of age. They are intended to provide p...
The best start in life: guidance on feeding of infants and young children in developing countries: ( LINKAGES Project , 2004); Recommended reading; Updated in 2004, this series of factsheets from the Linkages Project provides practical guidance on nutrition of infants and young children in developing countries. The first factsheet covers birth, t...
No substitute for mother’s milk?: affordable nutrition for nonbreastfed children in developing countries: ( K.G. Dewey; R.J. Cohen; N.C. Rollins / United Nations University , 2004); Recommended reading; This United Nations University (UNU) technical background paper, published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin, covers appropriate feeding of nonbreastfed children from 6 to 24 months of age, with a f...
Focused evidence-based nutrition interventions should be part of all national AIDS control and treatment programmes: ( World Health Organization , 2003); Recommended reading; This report from the World Health Organization summarises recommendations from a technical consultation on the nutritional requirements of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). The report sets out...
Important links between nutritional requirements and ARVs in people living with HIV and AIDS: ( Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project , 2004); Recommended reading; This document, from the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project, provides updated recommendations on nutrient requirements for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). Current evidenc...