Participation in communal day care centre feeding programs is associated with higher diet quantity but not quality among rural Ghanaian children
| العنوان: | Participation in communal day care centre feeding programs is associated with higher diet quantity but not quality among rural Ghanaian children |
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| المؤلفون: | Grace S. Marquis, Anna Lartey, Owuraku Sakyi-Dawson, Esi K Colecraft, Kimberly B. Harding |
| المصدر: | African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development; Vol 12, No 1 (2012); 5802-5821 |
| بيانات النشر: | African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | business.industry, Fortification, Day care, School feeding, Young children, Ghana, Micronutrient, Food group, Animal science, Medicine, Food science, Fortified Food, Rural area, Food quality, business, School feeding |
| الوصف: | Communal School Feeding Programs (SFP) are based on local foods brought by children from home which are cooked and shared at school. These programs may be a sustainable food-based strategy for improving children’s diets in low-resource areas. The objective of this study was to compare the dietary intakes of children who attend Day Care Centres (DCC) with communal SFP to children who do not attend any DCC or school in rural Ghana. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were used to collect dietary and other household information for 104 DCC and 89 non-DCC children aged two to five years living in two communities. In addition, the DCC lunches (ingredients and servings of each food preparation) were weighed. The Day Care Centres’ lunch was higher in energy (by 64 kcal; p |
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| تدمد: | 1684-5374 1684-5358 |
| DOI: | 10.18697/ajfand.49.enam9 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::3fad5cd3d9f2081b925930162e9d6b93 https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.49.enam9 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3fad5cd3d9f2081b925930162e9d6b93 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 16845374 16845358 |
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| DOI: | 10.18697/ajfand.49.enam9 |