ArticleNutrients2024
The Value of an Ecological Approach to Improve the Precision of Nutritional Assessment: Addressing Contributors and Implications of the "Multiple Burdens of Malnutrition".
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- Creating healthy habits for Maryland preschoolers (CHAMP): a cluster-randomized controlled trial among childcare centers.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- The "Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development: Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (BOND-KIDS)" Project-Justification and Conceptual Approach.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Review
- Intersection of Climate and Environmental Change and Priority Health Outcomes Across the Life Course: Working Group 1 Report from the "Agriculture and Diet: Value Added for Nutrition, Translation, and Adaptation in a Global Ecology" (ADVANTAGE) Project.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- The "Agriculture and Diet: Value Added for Nutrition, Translation, and Adaptation in a Global Ecology" (ADVANTAGE) Project: An Overview of an Integrated Approach to Address a Complex Challenge.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Application of an Ecological Approach to Assessment of Nutrition in School-Aged Children-A Report from the "Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development: Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (BOND-KIDS)" Project Working Group 3.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Review
- The value of an ecological approach to address micronutrient malnutrition.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- A Nutritional and Anthropometric Analysis of the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Children Under Two in Madagascar.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Moving Beyond Raising Awareness: Addressing Barriers.American journal of lifestyle medicineReview
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Abstract
Globally, children are exposed to multiple health risks associated with diet and nutrition. Rather than simply being a condition of having too much or too little food, malnutrition is more a syndrome comprising multiple burdens of coexisting and reciprocal malnutrition, infection, or other conditions. Importantly, children with such syndromes (e.g., stunting and anemia, which are neither specific nor necessarily sensitive to nutritional status) are more likely to also have irreversible functional outcomes such as poor growth, impaired immune function, or cognitive delays. The global health community has identified nutrition-related targets (e.g., Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and World Health Organization (WHO) Global Nutrition Targets) that, for multiple reasons, are difficult to address. Moreover, as the complexity of the global health context increases with persistent pandemics of infectious diseases and the rising prevalence of noncommunicable diseases, there is a growing appreciation that conditions selected as nutrition/health targets indeed represent syndromes for which nutritional status serves as both an input and outcome. In recognition of the impact of these combined challenges and the role of the multiple manifestations of malnutrition, we suggest an approach to nutritional assessment that is intended to improve the precision of context-specific, equitable approaches to health promotion, disease prevention, and treatment.
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