Assessing the Nutritional Skills of the Parents on the Development of Children Under Five Years of Age through Anthropometric Measurements in Rwanda a Case Study of Muyumbu Health Center in Rwamagana District, Rwanda
Abstract
In the history of human being, nutrition has been played an important role in the development starting from pregnancy up to the senior citizen. It has been stated that under-nutrition as well as food shortage have been main threats to the growth of children. However, where food is available parental feeding practices have brought the responses against these threats (Birch, et al., 2007). The control and keeping eating habits respecting balanced diet can be the way of ensuring good health as well as active mind because balanced meals which is consumed by pregnant mothers improve children cognitive development (Scaglioni et al., 2018)
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