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School snacks containing animal source foods improve dietary quality for children in rural Kenya
(2003)
Provision of a snack at school could help alleviate the micronutrient malnutrition that is common among schoolchildren in developing countries. The Child Nutrition Project was designed to compare the efficacy of three ...
Kenyan school children have multiple micronutrient deficiencies, but increased plasma vitamin B-12 is the only detectable micronutrient response to meat or milk supplementation.
(2003)
Animal source foods (ASF) can provide micronutrients in greater amounts and more bioavailable forms compared to plant source foods, but their intake is low in many poor populations. However, the impact of ASF on micronutrient ...
School snacks decrease morbidity in Kenyan schoolchildren: a cluster randomized, controlled feeding intervention trial
(2013)
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the effects of three different school snacks on morbidity outcomes
DESIGN: Twelve schools were randomized to either one of three feeding groups or a Control group. There were three schools per group ...
Rickets in Rural Kenyan Preschoolers: Case report
(2008)
Clinical rickets has not been reported previously in Embu district, Kenya. Baseline clinical assessments performed for a nutrition intervention study in preschool children (n=324) identified 28 cases of rickets (8.6% of ...
Playground behaviors of school-age children in relation to nutrition, schooling, and family characteristics.
(University of Nairobi, 1992)
Food intake measured over the course of a year, duration of schooling, and family SES were related to playground behaviors in a sample of 111 Kenyan school-age children. Better nourished children were more active, happy, ...
Meat and milk intakes and toddler growth: a comparison feeding intervention of animal-source foods in rural Kenya
(2012)
Objective: To examine the effects of animal-source foods on toddler growth.
Design: A 5-month comparison feeding intervention study with one of three
millet-based porridges randomized to eighteen feeding stations serving ...