Background The East Asia region is facing an increasing burden of overweight, obesity and related noncommunicable diseases, resulting from an ongoing nutrition transition. This study aimed to document the growing...
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Malaysia
We aimed to examine the association between women's empowerment and childhood nutritional status while accounting for the mediating role of household headship structure. Cross-country, cross-sectional quantitative...
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One in every five Malay children aged 5 y was stunted.
Employment in the private sector in mothers, consumption of formula milk and...
Introduction
Food security is attracting more attention in Malaysia not only at the national level that concern toward the enhancement of food self-sufficiency but also at the individual level which...
Agricultural biodiversity (agrobiodiversity) is a strategic asset to fight food and nutrition insecurity, climate change vulnerability, and poverty. The wealth of food crops is estimated at 5,000 species (Kew...