In 1933, a British Paeditrican, Cicely Williams, working in the then Gold Coast (now Ghana), described a syndrome in children usually between the ages of six months and four years, who had been ...

Child health experts have decried the increased cases of nutrition related infections and diseases among under-five children due to the economic hardship in the country. The paediatricians said the ...

IN THE late 1980s David Barker, a British doctor, suggested that what a woman eats when she is pregnant shapes her child's physiology for life. He called the idea fetal programming. Such programming ...

Numerous diseases have been attributed to deficiencies of proteins, vitamins, fats and some micronutrients. Diseases like kwashiorkor and marasmus have been attributed to protein deficiency, while ...

KINGSTON, JAMAICA — Adult survivors of severe acute malnutrition as children have cardiac structure and function abnormalities that contribute to higher diastolic blood pressures and increase ...

Following the rising costs of food items, poultry, meat, and dairy food in particular, many indigent parents have had to cut off or drastically reduce the quantity and quality of the food they give to ...