Millets are recognized as nutritional grains that have been important for preventing the malnutrition and significantly enhancing the human health. Foxtail millet ( Setaria italica) is a C4...
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A global transition towards diets increasingly dominated by ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has occurred in recent decades to the detriment of public health and the environment. This study aimed to examine...
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Recommendations to reduce population-level consumption of ultra-processed foods should be maintained and the population must be encouraged to this food intake.
There were mixed results...
Changes in diet and lifestyle can be caused by many factors and can, in turn, cause changes in health. This building block explains what the nutrition transition is and its...
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM), defined as the simultaneous manifestation of both undernutrition and overweight and obesity, affects most low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). This Series paper describes...
Adolescence is a time of phenomenal growth. During adolescence height velocity is second only to the first 2 years of life and every physiological system is transformed. Yet adolescent...
Nutritious food in the earliest years of life is the cornerstone of a child’s development. Yet 2 in 3 children between the ages of 6 months to two years are not...
A nutritious diet is essential for an active and healthy life but is unaffordable for about 3 billion people, almost 40% of the world's population, who have insufficient income to afford...
As urbanization rates across the globe are rising and there is a continued push to decentralise decision-making power to levels that are closer to the people served, cities are gaining...