NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF FRESHWATER FISHES AND ITS IMPORTANCE ON REGULATION OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF LOCAL FISHERMEN COMMUNITY OF MURSHIDABAD DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL, INDIA: A FIELD STUDY

Purpose – Developing countries like India, accounts for about 40 percent of undernourished children in the World and it is largely due to the result of dietary inadequacy in relation to their needs. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the changes in the nutritional status of the children, from their preschool days to the present primary school days. Design/methodology/approach – The present investigation was conducted at 20 Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) centers (Center-A) and 15 primary schools (Center-B) in Bali Gram Panchayat, Arambag, Hooghly District of West Bengal, India, at an interval of three to four years. A total of 1,012 children (boys=498; girls=514) aged two to six years old enrolled in these ICDS centers and a total of 603 children (boys=300, girls=303), aged five to ten years were studied from the 15 primary schools who were the beneficiaries of ICDS centers. Underweight (weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ)) and wasting (weight-for height Z-score (WHZ)) were used to assess the nutritional status. Findings – The nutritional situation (both in case of underweight and wasting) was better in Center B as compared with Center A. In general, the nutritional condition of boys was better than girls. Center had a very significant effect on both WAZ as well as WHZ, irrespective of age and sex. Sex has a significant impact only on WAZ. Interestingly, there was no significant sex-center interaction for both WAZ as well as WHZ. The children of the area were getting Mid Day Meal supplied through the school authorities which was comparatively better than the ICDS centers’ food supplementation. Better monitoring of nutritional supplementation at primary schools may be an important factor. Practical implications – In ICDS centers, only the Anganwari worker is responsible in running and implementing the programs offered by the Government. However, at primary schools, the active involvement of all the teachers to run the program may have effectively led to have better results. Furthermore, the Government's focus should not be only on the increase the area covered by the ICDS program, but focus should be to increase the quality of food supplied, proper monitoring of the implementation and increase the allocation of funds. Appropriate measures may be taken by the authorities regarding this. Originality/value – The results of the study will help in policy making in reducing the prevalence of undernutrition.

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Mobile Decision Support System to Determine Toddler's Nutrition Using Fuzzy Sugeno

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) ◽

10.11591/ijece.v7i6.pp3683-3691 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

pp. 3683

Author(s):

Suharjito Suharjito ◽

Jimmy Jimmy ◽

Abba Suganda Girsang

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Status ◽

Nutritional Quality ◽

Measurement Accuracy ◽

Physical Development ◽

Indicator Variables ◽

Nutritional Status Of Children ◽

Evaluation Measurement ◽

Manual Calculation

Determination of nutritional status is closely related to the determination of dietary patterns should be given to infants. Nutrition is very important role in mental, physical development, and human productivity. In this study, the system based on android is developed to determine the nutritional status of infants by using Fuzzy Sugeno. Indicator variables are age, height, circle head, and body weight according to the male or female. In this study, the results of measurements of nutritional status of children with Fuzzy Sugenoare tested by comparing the nutritional quality of the data Posyandu toddler by using anthropometric tables. The results of the evaluation measurement accuracy in this application are compared with the results of manual calculation based infant growth charts according to WHO standards. Therefore, these applications can be used to help the community in monitoring the nutritional status of children so that the growth of children is more appropriate in line with expectations.

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Nutritional status response of Daphania laevis and Moina micura from a tropical reservoir to different algal diets: Scenedesmus quadricauda and Ankistrodesmus gracilis

Brazilian Journal of Biology ◽

10.1590/s1519-69842001000400005 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 61 (4) ◽

pp. 555-562 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

C. F. MACEDO ◽

R. M. PINTO-CORLHO

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Status ◽

Lipid Content ◽

Nutritional Quality ◽

Dry Weight ◽

Total Lipids ◽

Tropical Reservoir ◽

Relative Contribution ◽

Cladoceran Species ◽

Algal Diets

The accumulation of lipid reserves was investigated in two common cladoceran species typical of neotropical freshwaters. Experiments were performed in order to measure differential accumulation of lipid reserves in response to two algal diets, S. quadricauda and A. gracilis. The larger D. laevis fed with the Ankistrodesmus diet accumulated a higher amount of total lipids. The average lipid content for both diets was 11.1% and 22.1% dry weight for Scenedesmus and Ankistrodemsus, respectively. This difference was found to be highly significant. The superior nutritional quality of A. gracilis was confirmed by the experiments using the smaller Moina micrura. This cladoceran accumulated 11.4% and 19.9% of the average dry weight of lipids from Scenedesmus and Ankistrodesmus, respectively. The study also found that most lipid reserves are concentrated as triacylglycerols in both cladocerans. The relative contribution of this class of lipids also varied according to the diet. For Daphnia, for instance, the average triacylglycerol levels varied from 6.2 to 11.0 with the Scenedesmus and Ankistrodesmus diets, respectively.

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Improving nutritional quality of wheat through soil and foliar zinc application

Plant Soil and Environment ◽

10.17221/158/2013-pse ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 59 (No. 8) ◽

pp. 348-352 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

K. Bharti ◽

N. Pandey ◽

D. Shankhdhar ◽

Srivastava PC ◽

Shankhdhar SC

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Status ◽

Nutritional Quality ◽

Foliar Spray ◽

Molar Ratio ◽

Wheat Grain ◽

Zn Content ◽

Foliar Zinc Application ◽

Zinc Application ◽

Methionine Content

A field study was conducted to ascertain the effect of three zinc (Zn) levels: 0, 20 kg ZnSO4/ha and 20 kg ZnSO4/ha + foliar spray of 0.5% ZnSO4, on wheat grain Zn content and factors contributing to or hindering in its bioavailability. Increasing Zn levels were established as serviceable in improving the nutritional status of genotypes. Soil application + foliar spray proved to be paramount for all the traits leading to an 80% increase in grain Zn content, 61.3% in methionine content and a decrease of 23.2% in phytic acid as an average of all genotypes and both years. The genotype UP 2382 was found more suited to Zn fertilization in allocating Zn and maintaining a lower phytate to Zn molar ratio.

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Assessment of the nutritional quality of fish cultured in Samdihi, an open cast coalpit at the Raniganj Coal Field areas, West Bengal, India

Lakes & Reservoirs Research & Management ◽

10.1111/lre.12351 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 3-12

Author(s):

Arghya Mandal ◽

Trisha Biswas ◽

Niladri Sekhar Mondal ◽

Sukhendu Dey ◽

Atanu Patra ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Quality ◽

West Bengal ◽

Coal Field ◽

Open Cast

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Hubungan Pijat Bayi dengan Perbaikan Status Gizi pada Baduta Terkait 1.000 HPK di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Pati II

Jurnal Kebidanan Harapan Ibu Pekalongan ◽

10.37402/jurbidhip.vol7.iss1.74 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 51-53

Author(s):

Siti Muawanah

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Status ◽

Nutritional Quality ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

The Body ◽

P Value ◽

Infant Massage ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Status ◽

The Relationship

Baby massage is one of the hereditary treatments for babies that are always healthy, in addition to these habits can also help overcome the problem of nutritional status. One of the causes of malnutrition is nutrition that is not fulfilled while in the womb, but this can be pursued before the child is 2 years old so that the child can be tall and large, one of them with baby massage intervention. Infant massage stimulation can help improve the status of a child's nutrition and stimulate the child's growth and development. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between infant massage and nutritional status of the two million children shown in the 1,000 HPK group in the context of accelerating nutritional improvement. This type of research used analytic observation with cross sectional method. The samples used were 45 babies under the age of two years. The sampling technique uses total sampling. The results showed that babies who did massage babies were 24 (53.3%), and had good nutritional quality as many as 19 (42.2%). There is a relationship between baby massage with the nutritional quality of infants under two years of age, with a p value of 0.001. This research is expected that parents pay more attention to the nutritional quality of their babies through routine baby massage, which is every 1-2 months. because massaging movements from head to toe make the body more easily in delivering nutrients to blood vessels, blood circulation, improve cognitive function of children, to make the baby avoid nutritional problems.

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Penatalaksanaan IMD pada Ibu Postpartum Sectio Caesarea Mempengaruhi Status Gizi dan Kecepatan Produksi ASI

Jurnal Bidan Cerdas (JBC) ◽

10.33860/jbc.v2i2.68 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 112-120

Author(s):

Nursari Abdul Syukur ◽

Susi Purwanti

Keyword(s):

Breast Milk ◽

Nutritional Status ◽

Milk Production ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Milk Protein ◽

Sectio Caesarea ◽

Control Group ◽

P Value ◽

Study Results

Many mothers who give birth to Sectio Caesarea (SC) do not Initiate Early Breastfeeding (IMD), which fails exclusive breastfeeding. This study aimed to determine the effect of IMD management in postpartum SC mothers on nutritional status, speed of milk production, and quality of breast milk protein. Method: quantitative research with quasi approach experiment. The research design used was a pre-post-test control non-equivalent control group. A sampling of this study used the Consecutive method sampling with a sample of 20 mothers who gave birth by cesarean section (SC). Hypothesis testing uses the independent t-test and the Mann-Whitney test. The study results showed an influence on the management of IMD in postpartum SC mothers on the speed of ASI production (p-value=0.004) and nutritional status (p-value=0.028). There was no effect of IMD management on postpartum SC mothers on the quality of breast milk protein (p-value = 0.543). This study recommends that the hospital implement an IMD promotion program before the abdominal wall is closed as a form of intervention to increase milk production and maternal nutritional status

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Food procurement in English-language Canadian public schools: Opportunities and challenges

Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l alimentation ◽

10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.265 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 75-99

Author(s):

Shawna Holmes

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Food Environment ◽

Nutritional Quality ◽

English Language ◽

Nutrient Content ◽

Food Environments ◽

School Food ◽

Provincial Level ◽

School Food Environment

This paper examines the changes to procurement for school food environments in Canada as a response to changes to nutrition regulations at the provincial level. Interviews with those working in school food environments across Canada revealed how changes to the nutrition requirements of foods and beverages sold in schools presented opportunities to not only improve the nutrient content of the items made available in school food environments, but also to include local producers and/or school gardens in procuring for the school food environment. At the same time, some schools struggle to procure nutritionally compliant foods due to increased costs associated with transporting produce to rural, remote, or northern communities as well as logistic difficulties like spoilage. Although the nutrition regulations have facilitated improvements to food environments in some schools, others require more support to improve the overall nutritional quality of the foods and beverages available to students at school.

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