Determinants of Dietary Intake and Dietary Adequacy for Pre-School Children in Bangladesh

Abstract

* Calorie intake divided by caloric need, based on age-sex-specific recommendations of the 1973 FAD/WHO Report (4) multiplied by 100. ** Calorie intake divided by caloric need, based on weight-specific recommendations of the 1973 FAD/WHO Report (4) multiplied by 100.

Nutrient adequacy and its correlation in a sub-Himalayan region of West Bengal, India

“…[1718] It is expected that better-educated parents are able to provide more wholesome diets in their family due to their ability to identify the nutritious value of food. A study done by Galobardes et al .…”

How pervasive are sex differentials in childhood nutritional levels in South Asia?

“…This result is in direct contradiction to that expected from indirect inferences in the literature. But such an absence of clear gender differentials in childhood nutritional levels has also come out in several other studies (see, for example, Chaudhury, Chaudhury, 1987;Nutrition Foundation of India, 1988;Visaria, 1988), and once it becomes less awkward to take this neutral stand, perhaps more such studies will gain publicity.…”

“…But even at these older ages, anthropometric data are increasingly beginning to suggest that we may be making an unduly strong case in favor of a female disadvantage. The actual evidence (see, for example, Nutrition Foundation of India, 1988;Gopalan, 1987;Chaudhury, 1987) strongly suggests that food imbalances are not a major part of the gender inequalities in South Asia.…”

Malnutrition and the development of rural households in the Agreste of Paraiba state, North‐east Brazil

“…Chaudhury [1984] finds a positive association between energy intake and household size, which 'possibly reflects the greater household wealth often associated with household size ' [1984: 30]. He also stresses that it is the dependency ratio rather than household size per se which 'plays an important role in determining the nutrient intake of pre-school children ' [1984:30].…”

“…The DR rises to 66 per cent, income remains much the same, and food is stretched to meet increasing demand. Moreover, those children not being breastfed will be disadvantaged as the first pick of scarce foods probably goes to the (male) adult workers, upon whom the household depends for much of its cash income [Albuquerque, 1977: Chaudhury, 1984Gross and Underwood, 1971;Marchione, 1981;Williams, 1984]. 13 Seven years later the first children enter the workforce or can at least help around the farm, allowing the adults to seek more off-farm labour.…”