Traditional food consumption and nutritional status of Dalit mothers in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1277-1283

  Schmid, M A ^a   Egeland, G M ^a   Salomeyesudas, B ^b   Satheesh, P V ^b   Kuhnlein, H V ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Deccan Development Society   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PROTEIN; RETINOL;

ADULT; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SORGHUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; MENTAL RECALL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; THINNESS; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750539323     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602449     Document Type: Article

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