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Commercial complementary food feeding and associated factors among mothers of children aged 6–23 months old in Mettu Town, Southwest Ethiopia, 2022
BackgroundCommercial complementary foods (CCF) are unhealthy products for children under 24 months, containing unhealthy fats, refined starches,...
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Nutritional, antioxidant and organoleptic properties of therapeutic-complementary-food formulated from locally available food materials for severe acute malnutrition management
BackgroundThe prevalence of severe acute malnutrition among children (< 5 years) due to low energy-protein density of local complementary foods and...
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The big squeeze: a product content and labelling analysis of ready-to-use complementary infant food pouches in Australia
BackgroundEncouraging the early development of healthy eating habits prevents diet-related chronic disease. It is well understood that highly...
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Complementary and Alternative Therapies
In the absence of a validated therapy aimed at silencing their tinnitus, many patients turn to complementary alternative medicines (CAM) with the...
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Peer counselling as an approach to improve complementary feeding practices: a narrative review
BackgroundAppropriate complementary feeding can help reduce the risk of malnutrition and is especially important in Asian and African countries. Peer...
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Functional food: complementary to fight against COVID-19
BackgroundThe novel coronavirus has embarked on a global pandemic and severe mortality with limited access for its treatments and medications. For...
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Protocol for a parallel group, two-arm, superiority cluster randomised trial to evaluate a community-level complementary-food safety and hygiene and nutrition intervention in Mali: the MaaCiwara study (version 1.3; 10 November 2022)
BackgroundDiarrhoeal disease remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among the under-fives in many low- and middle-income countries....
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Complementary Therapies for IBD
There are many alternative therapies that have been tried for the treatment of IBD. While some of these may have a beneficial effect in decreasing...
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Complementary and Alternative Therapies
The purpose of this chapter is to provide information about some health care therapies that are typically not considered mainstream. Different forms...
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Determinants of inappropriate complementary feeding among children 6–23 months of age in Dessie City Northeast Ethiopia: a case-control study
BackgroundInappropriate complementary feeding is one of the leading causes of malnutrition among children 6–23 months old and delays children’s...
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Complementary Therapies for Renal Diseases
Complementary therapies are commonly used to prevent and treat various medical conditions worldwide. The chapter begins with a description of the...
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Food price perception, food and beverage marketing and the nutritional status of children 6–24 months in Obunga slums, Kisumu Kenya: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundMalnutrition is a significant problem in Africa. In Kenya, 26% of under-fives are stunted; slums are the hardest hit. Obunga slum has the...
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Develo** shelf-stable Microbiota Directed Complementary Food (MDCF) prototypes for malnourished children: study protocol for a randomized, single-blinded, clinical study
BackgroundChildhood undernutrition is a major public health concern that needs special attention to achieve 2025 global nutrition targets. Moderate...
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Ending groundwater overdraft without affecting food security
Groundwater development is key to accelerating agricultural growth and to achieving food security in a climate crisis. However, the rapid increase in...
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The Determinants of Complementary Feeding Introduction Vary According to the Type of Food and Infants’ Ages: A Cohort Study—ClaB, Brazil
IntroductionFood inadequacies in the first 6 months of life are considered a global problem, with an emphasis on early complementary feeding...
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Processing and optimisation of complementary food blends from roasted pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and soybean (Glycine max) using response surface modeling
Adequate nutrition is vital during infancy but the high cost of supplemented infant formulae has forced inhabitants of Central and West Africa to...
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Microwave Reheating Performance Using Dynamic Complementary-Frequency Shifting Strategy in a Solid-State System
Solid-state techniques have the potential to address the nonuniform heating in magnetron-based microwave ovens. A previously developed dynamic...
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Estimated energy and nutrient intake in complementary feeding methods in Brazilian infants: randomized clinical trial
Inadequate nutrient intake during complementary feeding (CF) can affect healthy infant growth and development. A randomized clinical trial was...
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Back and forth: day–night alternation between cover types reveals complementary use of habitats in a large herbivore
ContextThe Complementary Habitat Hypothesis posits that animals access resources for different needs by moving between complementary habitats that...
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Early initiation of complementary feeding practice and its associated factors among children aged 6 to 24 months in Northeast Ethiopia
BackgroundEven if there is currently no research on food integration practices, there is an unreliable hole in the data for the first motives,...