Kristy Hackett, Umme Salma Mukta, Chowdhury Jalal, Daniel Sellen
Improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices have the potential to improve child health and development outcomes in poorly resourced communities. In Bangladesh, approximately 60% of rural girls become mothers before the age of 18, but most interventions to improve IYCF practices target o...
Kristy Hackett, Umme Salma Mukta, Chowdhury Jalal, Daniel Sellen
BACKGROUND: Infant feeding and caregiving by adolescent girls and young women in rural Bangladesh remains relatively understudied despite high potential vulnerability of younger mothers and their children due to poverty and high rates of early marriage and childbearing. This key knowledge gap may ha...
Umme Salma Mukta, Barnali Chakraborty, Umme Sayka, Md. Raisul Haque et al.
Background: In Bangladesh, more than two-thirds of total food consumption is rice as main staple, especially for the poor, in addition to some vegetables, pulses and small quantities of fish, meat, egg, etc. if and when available. The similar dietary pattern and practices were found for under two ye...
Umme Salma Muktaa, Md. Raisul Haque, Syed Masud Ahmed
Poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices is one of the major causes of under nutrition and stunting in
Umme Salma Mukta
Developing countries especially in Asia and Africa have the increase in rate of type-2 diabetes due to their life style and it was anticipated that worldwide 2.8% of the population suffer from diabetes. And it has been suspected that the figure will be double by 2030 if such standard of living persi...
Umme Salma Mukta, Syed Masud Ahmed, Umme Sayka, Md. Raisul Haque
Bangladesh is one of the countries with a high rate of infant malnutrition and the major cause is inappropriate breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. To improve the situation, both GO/NGO organizations are working intensively on the issue. In pursuance of this, AED and BRAC became partn...
Umme Salma Mukta
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is an increasing threat to the world, which is also considered a “disease of prosperity”. The manifest of demographic changes, cultural transition, modernization, and population aging, etc. make it a “developing countries problem”. The incidence of type 2 diabetes mel...
Muhammad Rafiqul Islam, Umme Salma, M. Jahiruddin, Tamanna Akther Mukta et al.
Abstract Cadmium is primarily acquired through food, leading to severe health issues in humans. A pot experiment investigated the impacts of varying cadmium (Cd) levels (0, 10 and 20 mg/kg) on productivity and nutrient concentrations in six distinct rice varieties, including Binadhan-8, Binadhan-10,...
Umme Salma Mukta
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is an increasing threat to the world, which is also considered a “disease of prosperity”. The manifests of demographic changes, cultural transition, modernization, and population aging, etc. make it a “developing countries problem”. The incidence of type 2 diabetes me...
Barnali Chakraborty, Fahmida Akter, Umme Salma Mukta, Mahabub Hossain
International literature accords immense importance to agriculture interventions in order to achieve better health and nutrition. It stresses the importance of women’s engagement, diversified production and consumption, and incorporation of other health and nutrition services into the agriculture ex...
Umme Salma Mukta
Introduction Rice is consumed as main staple food in Bangladesh by the twothird of the total population especially the poor, adding with some vegetables, pulses and small amount of fish, meat, egg, milk etc if and when available. In the Alive and Thrive (A&T) intervention areas in spite of counselin...
Umme Salma Mukta, Umme Sayka, Pradip Sen Gupta
Introduction: According to an estimate of the World Health Organization, about 171 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. But the incidence is increasing so rapidly that it is speculated that by 2030 this number will be almost doubled. Diabetes mellitus occurs all the way through the world, ...
Umme Salma Mukta, Barnali Chakraborty, Umme Sayka, Md. Raisul Haque et al.
Introduction: In Bangladesh about two-thirds of total food consumption is rice as \nmain staple food, especially for the poor, in addition to some vegetables, pulses and \nsmall quantities of fish, meat, egg, etc. if and when available. The similar dietary \npattern and practices were fo...
Umme Salma Mukta