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The Role of Animal Source Foods in Improving Nutritional Health in Urban Informal Settlements: Identification of Knowl...
ISSN: 1929 - 4247
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The Role of Animal Source Foods in Improving Nutritional Health in Urban Informal Settlements: Identification of Knowl...
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Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
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Abstract
Childhood undernutrition is a health crisis in the rapidly expanding informal settlements of low-income countries worldwide. Nearly half of Kenyan children in the Kibera settlement, in Nairobi, were reported to be stunted, indicating low height-for-age. Stunted children are at greater risk for poor cognitive and physical health outcomes in the long-term, problems that tend to be perpetuated in subsequent generations. Animal-source foods (ASF) supply a calorically dense source of micro- and macronutrients, and supplementation with ASF has been shown to improve linear growth and cognition. Correspondingly, increasing consumption of ASF by pregnant women and children has been proposed as a means to disrupt the intergenerational cycle of undernutrition caused by food insecurity. Household surveys indicate that consumption of ASF is low in urban slums, despite the availability of these foods in local markets. Here we review the studies add...
