Introduction
Malnutrition remains prevalent worldwide, and about 45% of all child deaths are linked to malnutrition. It is unclear whether survivors of childhood malnutrition suffer from long-term metabolic effects, especially when exposed later in life to an obesogenic diet. The lack of understanding around this dietary “double burden” warrants studies to understand the long-term...
Introduction
The increasing burden of heart disease and type 2 diabetes in lower middle income countries is likely related to exposure to western style diets; however, in many of these countries severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is also prevalent, resulting in a double burden of nutritional insults. While prenatal undernutrition has been associated with increased risk of later cardiovascular...
Introduction: Children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) in many settings receive food supplementation through outpatient programs. It is common practice to avoid measurement of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of children, whose length is below a certain threshold (67 or 65 cm). Thus, even if short children have low MUAC they are excluded from malnutrition programs. This seems...
Current explanations about how body weight is regulated generally center on control systems operating via energy intake and energy expenditure. The role played by control system(s) operating through energy partitioning between lean mass and fat mass is, however, rarely invoked. Yet, in the late 1970’s and 1980’s, the control of the body’s lean-fat partitioning was embodied in the classic work...
