The most striking feature of the revised Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released this past January, is the publication s increased emphasis on obesity prevention: To reverse the trend toward obesity, most Americans need to eat fewer calories, be more active, and make wiser food choices (U.S....

This study applies both parametric and non-parametric techniques to a new household data set from rural Indonesia to explain previous findings of a reduced-form relationship between nutrition knowledge and child micronutrient status. Households of mothers with and without nutrition knowledge...

India's efforts to address malnutrition have been significant and noteworthy. India's Integrated Child Development Program (ICDS) is the largest child nutrition-related program in the world. The prevalence of malnutrition in India dropped more than 20% since 1960, contributing to significant...

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Most large-scale nutrition surveys carried out in developing countries have been conducted to compile or update national or regional data that are independent of project activities. At the same time, a growing number of large scale projects are developing monitoring and evaluation systems that...

The common practice of reducing food consumption during pregnancy is recognized as a primary cause of poor pregnancy outcomes and, in turn, malnutrition among young children in many developing countries including Bangladesh. This paper analyzes data from the 1998 Mid-Term Evaluation of the...

An exit strategy for a program is a specific plan describing how the program intends to withdraw from a region while assuring that the achievement of development goals is not jeopardized and that further progress toward these goals is made. The goal of an exit strategy is to assure...