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Nutrition-Sensitive Intervention

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Introduction Kitchen gardens, Also called home or backyard gardens, are a nutrition-sensitive approach to combat malnutrition and stunting, especially in low-resource settings. They provide households with fresh, nutrient-rich foods, directly improving dietary diversity, food security, and health outcomes, particularly for children and pregnant or lactating women. Some Key Benefits: 1. Diverse Crops: Include nutrient-rich vegetables. 2. Cost Reduction: Decreases reliance on purchased foods, saving money for other needs like healthcare or education. 3. Nutrition Awareness: Training encourages children to adopt balanced diets. 4. Women’s Empowerment: Often managed by women, improving household food distribution and child nutrition. 5. Combatting Malnutrition: Reduces micronutrient deficiencies and supports child growth during the critical early years (first 1,000 days). Some Challenges and Solutions: 1. Knowledge Deficits: Resolved with community-based training and demonstrations.
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All you need to know about type 2 diabetes. early well management of type 2 diabetes can help you to be recovered from this diseases, did you know?

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  1. what is type 2 diabetes  Type 2 Diabetes also known as non-insulin dependent diabetes, it represents 90 to 95% of diagnosed cases of diabetes.  The cause of diabetes is not confirmed so far. Although it appears that may be genetic, environmental factors also may contribute to its occurrence. For example, being  obesity  and  physical inactive  may affect people to acquire diabetes. The World Health Organization(WHO) indicated that the prevalence of diabetes increasing worldwide, especially in areas showing improvement in living standards and in urban area rather than in rural area. After reading this paper you will be able to understand the following four main things about type 2 diabetes; Risk factors of type 2 diabetes Signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes Complications of type 2 diabetes  Management of type 2 diabetes   2.       RISK FACTORS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES There is no cause of type 2 diabetes but they are some different risk factors that can contribute its occurrences. Tho
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Proper nutritional habits during pregnancy

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PROPER NUTRITIONAL BEHAVIOR DURING PREGNANCY Nutrition refers to an area that especially studies physiological and pathological aspect of nutrients in the body. Physiologic aspects of nutrients deal with composition of nutrients such as macro nutrients (proteins, lipids and carbohydrates) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), and also deals with metabolism of those nutrients to be used by the body. Pathologic aspects of nutrient deals with nutritional problems or malnutrition due to insufficiency or over nutrients within the body. Some examples of insufficient nutrients intake are including; stunting, kwashiorkor (protein deficiency), marasmus (protein-energy deficiency), anemia (iron deficiency), rickets (vitamin D calcium deficiency), spine bifida (neural-tube defect) caused by lack folate during pregnancy. Furthermore, nutrition can be defined as “Food Utilization by the Body for ensuring a normal growth and a normal functioning of different organs’’. In this paper we are goin
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