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Nutritional factors associated with maternal depression among pregnant women in Urban Low-Income Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
(SAGE, 2021-07-01)Background: Nutritional deficiencies are common during pregnancy and a year after childbirth. At the same time, maternal depression affects many women during pregnancy up to 1 year after childbirth. The objectives of this ... -
Nutritional knowledge and dietary diversity of cancer patients at the cancer treatment centre, Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-12)Cancer cases are on the increase in Kenya and have become one of the leading public health issues. This increase is possibly attributed to change in behavior and adoption of predisposing factors such as increase in ... -
Nutritional quality, phytochemical composition and health protective effects of an under-utilized prickly cactus fruit (Opuntia stricta Haw.) collected from Kenya.
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 2014)The cactus fruit belongs to the Cactaceae family and is native to the arid and semi-arid regions of the world, where the production of more succulent food plants is severely limited. Opuntia stricta Haw, fruits have recently ... -
Nutritional Status Between Coffee And Non-coffee Growing Households In Kathiani Division, Machakos District, Kenya.
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Nutritional Value of Berchemia discolor: A Potential to Food and Nutrition Security of Households
(Asian Network for Scientific InformationDepartment of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology,, 2012)Drylands have a multitude of livelihood problems where food insecurity is one of the serious impediments. Both transhumance and settled farmers make their living in the semiarid parts of east Shewa, Ethiopia. They adapt ... -
Nutritional value of grain amaranth in broiler diets
(University of Nairobi, 1992)No abstract available -
Nutritive and anti-nutritive qualities of mostly preferred edible woody plants in selected drylands of Iringa District, Tanzania
(Department of Land Resources and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Botany, University of Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaDepartment of Biological Sciences, Chiromo, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)Nutritional and anti-nutritional factors of preferred woody plants were evaluated in selected drylands of Iringa District. Vangueria infausta (Burch.) and Vitex mombassae (Vatke.) identified as source of edible fruits; ... -
The nutritive evaluation of dried poultry excreta as a feed ingredient for broiler chickens.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Animal Production, 1992-05)In the first of two experiments, the effect of graded levels of oven or solar dried poultry excreta (DPE) on broiler performance, carcass yield, abdominal fat pad weight and thigh meat composition was examined. Excreta ... -
The nutritive value of canola meal for early-weaned pigs
(1987)Four experiments using 900 crossbed pigs were conducted to determine the nutritive value of canola meal (CM) for pigs weaned at 3 or 5 weeks of age. Diets were based on barley and wheat, and CM replaced 0, 25, 50, 75 or ... -
Nutritive value of cultu red white leg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
(University of Nairobi, 2013-07)Biochemical assays play a major role in recent years. The biochemical composition is the yardstick to measure and assess the nutritional quality o f food sources. In the present study, protein, carbohydrate, lipid, ... -
The nutritive value of four arable farm by-products commonly fed to dairy cattle by small-scale farmers in Kenya. I. Organic structural components and in vitro digestibility.
(University of Nairobi, 1983)Neutral detergent fibre (NDF) content of (a) maize stalks (60.9%), (b) maize cobs (86.7%) and (c) sugarcane tope (63.3%) was significantly higher than that of (d) sugarcane stalks (40.6%). DM digestibility (DMD) from in ... -
Nutritive value of important range forage species camels in Marsabit District, Kenya
(Departmeni of Animal Production, 2005)A study carried out in the semi-arid rangelands of Marsabit during dry and wet seasons assessed the content and seasonal variation of crude protein (CP) and fibre of important forage species for camels. Using a semi-structured ... -
Nutritive value of important range forages species for camels in Western Marsabit, Kenya.
(university of nairobi, 2005)A study carried out in the semi-arid rangelands of Marsabit during dry and wet seasons assessed the content and seasonal variation of crude protein (CP) and fibre of important forage species for camels. Using a ... -
Nutritive value of reconstituted sorghum grains for weanling pigs
(American Society of Animal ScienceDepartment of Animal Production, 1984)Grains from a high and low tannin sorghum were reconstituted by adding distilled water at a 30% level (w/w) and stored for 20 d at 25 C with an acetic-propionic acid mixture added to deter fungal growth. Another batch ... -
The nutritive value of the wild tree foods in Turkana district Norther n arid Kenya, and their role in food security and human welfare development.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Food Science Nutrition and Technology, 2004) -
Nyar A review of African pastoral production systems: Approaches to their understanding and development. Journal of Human Ecology
(College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, LARMAT, 2002) -
O2-uptake, thermoregulation and heart rate in the springhare (Pedetes capensis)
(1979)No abstract available -
Obligatory urea production and the cost of living in the Magadi tilapia revealed by acclimation to reduced salinity and alkalinity
(2002)Alcolapia grahami is a unique ureotelic tilapia that lives in the highly alkaline, saline Lake Magadi, Kenya (pH, approximately 10.0; alkalinity, approximately 380 mmol L(-1); Na(+), approximately 350 mmol L(-1); Cl(-), ...
