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Does supermarket purchase affect the dietary practices of households?: Some empirical evidence from Guatemala by Asfaw, Abay

“…The results reveal that supermarket purchases increase the share of highly and partially processed foods at the expense of staple foods, and are also positively and significantly associated with individual Body Mass Index. Different policy moves should be envisaged towards‘healthier’diets.…”
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Reproductive performance of indigenous goats in traditionally managed flocks in north-east of Zimbabwe by Ndlovu, L.R.

“…Flock entries and exits were recorded, body-mass changes measured fortnightly and blood samples collected in five consecutive weekly intervals in August-September 1988 and March-April 1989. …”
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Exposure of Nonbreeding Migratory Shorebirds to Cholinesterase Inhibiting Contaminants in the Western Hemisphere by Strum, Khara M., Hooper, Michael J., Johnson, Kevin A., Lanctot, Richard B., Zaccagnini, Maria Elena, Sandercock, Brett K.

“…Exposure to Cholinesterase inhibitors can decrease body mass, but comparisons between treatments and hemispheres suggest that agrochemicals did not affect migratory shorebirds' body mass. …”
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Childhood health and the wantedness of male and female children by Palloni, Giordano

“…I find that children born of their mother's preferred sex are heavier, have a higher body mass index, and experience fewer illnesses in early childhood. …”
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Social services, human capital, and technical efficiency of smallholders in Burkina Faso by Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie

“…Strong positive returns exist for education of females, whereas male education is associated with higher inefficiency. Body mass index of adult females also positively relates to technical efficiency. …”
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The medium-term impact of the primary education stipend in rural Bangladesh by Baulch, Bob

“…The program does, however, lead to improvements in height for age among girls and body mass index among boys. Nonetheless, the impacts of the PES are remarkably small for a program of its size. …”
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Conservative outlook, gender norms and female wellbeing: Evidence from rural Bangladesh by Ahmed, Tanima, Sen, Binayak

“…In this paper, we seek to test the association between household conservatism and female well-being indicators, by considering the dimension of employment, decision-making autonomy and body mass (nutrition). Finding a suitable indicator of household conservatism is not easy, especially in absence of a household level ‘value survey’. …”
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Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia by Ghebru, Hosaena H., Holden, Stein

“…Results also show that members of households that accessed additional land through the land rental market had a significantly higher body mass index.…”
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Traditional food-processing and preparation practices to enhance the bioavailability of micronutrients in plant-based diets by Hotz, Christine, Gibson, Rosalind S.

“…A long-term participatory intervention in Malawi that used a range of these strategies plus promotion of the intake of other micronutrient-rich foods, including animal-source foods, resulted in improvements in both hemoglobin and lean body mass and a lower incidence of common infections among intervention compared with control children. …”
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Effect of protein restriction of bovine dams during late gestation on offspring postnatal growth, glucose-insulin metabolism and IGF-1 concentration by Maresca, Sebastian, Lopez Valiente, Sebastian, Rodriguez, Alejandro Martin, Long, Nathan M., Pavan, Enrique, Quintans, Graciela I.

“…However, head circumference /birth BW ratio (P = 0.04), heart girth /birth BW ratio (P = 0.01), body length /birth BW ratio (P = 0.05) and height /birth BW ratio (P = 0.01) was greater on LP calves. Body mass index was greater in HP calves (P = 0.04). …”
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Dietfoder för viktminskning för hund by Tochtermann, Matilda

Understanding the determinants of adolescent nutrition in Bangladesh by Leroy, Jef L., Ruel, Marie T., Sununtnasuk, Celeste, Ahmed, Akhter

“…We characterized the nutritional status (body mass index Z‐scores (BMIZs)) and nutrient intakes of adolescent boys and girls in rural areas in Bangladesh using the 2011–2012 BIHS data, used regression models to identify the socioeconomic determinants of these outcomes, and household fixed effects models to assess whether the gap between boys and girls changed with women's education and empowerment and household wealth. …”
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? by Sraboni, Esha, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter

“…Using a nationally representative survey from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity, and adult body mass index (BMI). Accounting for potential endogeneity of empowerment, we find that increases in women’s empowerment are positively associated with calorie availability and dietary diversity at the household level. …”
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Comparing the community composition of European and Eastern Chinese Waterbirds and the influence of human factors on the China Waterbird Community by Boer, W. Fred de, Cao, L., Barter, M., Wang, X., Sun, M., Oeveren, H. Van, Leeuw, Jan de, Barzen, J., Prins, H.H.T.

“…Mean bird body mass decreased in China with increasing disturbance and increasing gross domestic product (GDP). …”
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Timing of the rut in fallow deer Dama dama by Kindbladh, Nathalie

“…Age class and population density were factors that significantly affected the yearly variation in ovulation date and individual body mass was only affecting sub adult ovulation. …”

Den fysiska aktivitetens påverkan på hundägarens uppfattning om hull, kroppsform och aktivitetsnivå by Larsson, Amanda

“…I vår studie fann vi att hundarnas ”body condition score” (BCS) och människornas ”body mass index” (BMI) och kroppsvikt minskade signifikant efter träningsprogrammet. …”
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Bergmann's rule holds in birds inhabiting southern Guinea forests but not in the northern Savanna of Nigeria by Barshep, Y., Awoyemi, A.G., Abalaka, J., Ottosson, U.

“…Using principal component analyses of body mass and wing length, the first principal component, the component of size, indicated that individuals in montane areas were larger than lowland populations in southern guinea forests. …”
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Double burden of malnutrition: evidence from a selected Nigerian population by Alamu, Emmanuel Oladeji, Eyinla, T.E., Sanusi, R.A., Maziya-Dixon, Busie

“…Prevalence of wasting was 13.1%, 6.2% were moderately wasted, and 6.9% were severely wasted. Mean maternal body mass index was (23.54 ± 4.60) kgm2. 9.0% were underweight mothers, 23.2% were overweight, and 9.3% were obese. …”
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Assessing the gendered pathways from household water insecurity experiences to maternal and child health in Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon by Katic, Pamela Giselle

“…We therefore sought to fill this knowledge gap by quantifying the relationship between household water and food insecurity and maternal and child health outcomes (maternal and child anaemia, child stunting, and maternal body mass index). We also aimed to determine whether sociocultural norms, women’s time use, and economic well-being mediated these relationships. …”
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Agricultural commercialization and nutrition: Evidence from smallholder coffee farmers by van Asselt, Joanna, Useche, Pilar

“…Survey data from smallholder coffee farmers in rural Guatemala is used to estimate the impact of commercialization on body mass index for male and female household heads. …”
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