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Nutrition Issues in Developing Countries Part I: Diarrheal Diseases, Part II: Diet and Activity During Pregnancy and Lactation (1992) / Chapter Skim
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... Its premise Is that failure to deal effectively with the food-related causes and nutritional consequences of diarrhea predisposes the host to repeated and increasingly severe nutritional deficiencies and entenc illness. Studies of the associations between nutritional status and diarrhea ~ childhood require inclusion of the cultural, social, and economic factors that influence feeding practices.
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... Interventions that will decease their role ~ the potential transmission of enteropathogens include improved personal hygiene, reduction of storage of weaning foods, improvement of food storage conditions, and the use of processed foods that are resistant to bacterial proliferation. Such interventions must be accompanued by efforts to improve the nutritional quality of supplementary and weaning foods.
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... improved food processing technologies.
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