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Blantyre, California, Toronto
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Nutrition researcher. Consultant @WHO. Adjunct professor @UBC @ubcLFS. Views my own. (she/her)

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WE Charity's international development efforts offered quick fixes, not real impact

WE Charity's international development efforts offered quick fixes, not real impact

The political uproar surrounding WE Charity's $912-million youth volunteer contract with the federal governme…

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Coronavirus in Toronto-Lessons Lost on a Second SARS

Coronavirus in Toronto-Lessons Lost on a Second SARS

When COVID-19 first reached Toronto in January 2020, Canada’s infectious disease and public health experts we…

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Rehab facilities preparing for COVID-19 crunch as more patients recover

Rehab facilities preparing for COVID-19 crunch as more patients recover

Rehabilitation centres have undergone dramatic transformations over the past three months to accommodate pati…

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Coronavirus in Malawi

Coronavirus in Malawi

Malawi has a unique claim to COVID-19 fame: it is the only country in the world to announce a lockdown, and t…

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COVID-19 survivors: The long road of rehab

COVID-19 survivors: The long road of rehab

Thousands of patients across Canada are now recovering from COVID-19. But for many, the ordeal is far from ov…

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There are many reasons why obesity puts people at risk of becoming critically ill from COVID-19

There are many reasons why obesity puts people at risk of becoming critically ill from COVID-19

People living with obesity are emerging as one of the groups most at risk of critical illness if they contrac…

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Wasting and edema - severe forms of malnutrition - affect millions of children worldwide as food insecurity grows Original

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By Allison Daniel
| The Conversation Verified
Each year around the globe, 45 million children under the age of five experience wasting, which is very low body weight relative to height as a result of muscle and fat loss. Of these, 13.6 million have severe wasting, which puts them at an 11-fold risk of dying from infectious diseases compared to children who are not wasted. Nutritional edema (also known as kwashiorkor) is another manifestation of malnutrition that often goes unmeasured in surveys.
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Identification of risk factors for inpatient mortality in infants and children with severe wasting and/or nutritional oedema—what next? - European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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By Allison Daniel
| Nature Verified
Infants and children with severe wasting (defined by weight-for-height z-scores below -3 SD and/or mid-upper arm circumference [MUAC] below 115 mm) and/or nutritional oedema who receive inpatient treatment remain highly vulnerable despite implementation of current World Health Organization (WHO) and national guidelines.
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A protocol for a proof-of-concept randomized control trial testing increased protein quantity and quality in ready-to-use therapeutic food in improving linear growth among 6-23-month-old children with severe wasting in Malawi (pdf) | Paperity

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By Isabel Potani, Allison Daniel, André Briend, Glenda Courtney-Martin
| paperity.org
PLOS ONE, Aug 2023 Introduction Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs) have successfully promoted recovery from severe wasting and increased treatment coverage. However, RUTFs do not sufficiently improve linear growth, leaving many survivors of severe wasting at risk of persistent stunting, which is associated with high mortality risk, poor child development and non-communicable diseases in adulthood. High protein quantity and quality can stimulate linear growth.
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