In this week's PLoS Medicine, Ricardo Soares Magalhães and Archie Clements, from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, describe how they used national cross-sectional household-based demographic health surveys to map the distribution of anaemia risk in preschool-age children in...
Sodexo (PARIS:SW) (OTCBB:SDXAY), a world leader in Quality of Daily Life Solutions, was honored for its longstanding commitment in the fight against hunger around the world by Bread for the World, an association created in 1972 in the United States to end global hunger and by The Alliance to End...
Every year, the population of Niger is affected by a nutritional crisis that peaks between May and September. The scale of the crisis in 2010 is particularly worrying. More than 77,000 children with severe malnutrition have already been treated this year in the 69 nutritional centers supported...
Boston Globe Examines 'Positive Deviance' Approach To Improve Health The Boston Globe examines "'positive deviance,' an approach to behavioral and social change. Instead of imposing solutions from without, the method identifies outliers in a community who, despite having no special...
Reuters reports that as a new camp capable of hosting 10,000 to 12,000 refugees in Yemen will open in a few weeks, "[m]alnutrition and the risk of a cholera outbreak are threatening lives at Yemen's main camp [Masrak] for people fleeing fighting in the north." According to Thomas Davin, regional...
I know that there is compulsive overeating disorder which accounts for some of the obese, but just wondering, what are the other causes. If obese people don't have this disorder (thus don't have an addiction to food) why can't they control what they eat?
is it just lack of nutritional insight...