Research articles (Dept of Family and Consumer Sciences, formerly Home Economics Education): Recent submissions

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  • Breastfeeding in Botswana: Practices, Attitudes, Patterns, and the Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Them 

    Mahgoub, S.E.O.; Bandeke, T.; Nnyepi, M. (Oxford University Press; http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/, 2002-08)
    A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in four randomly selected districts of Botswana. Two study sites were chosen in each district. Four hundred households with children under 3 years old were enrolled into ...

  • Production and evaluation of weaning foods based on sorghum and legumes 

    Mahgoub, S.E.O. (Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Netherlands http://www.springerlink.com/content/t218k71qq13p5476/, 1999-03)
    Five weaning formulations (F1-F5) based on sorghum, groundnuts, sesame seeds, chickpeas, and skim milk powder were processed by a twin-roller drum dryer and evaluated for composition, functional properties (bulk density, ...

  • Predictors of food variety and dietary diversity among older persons in Botswana 

    Clausen, T.; Charlton, K.E.; Gobotswang, K.S.M.; Holmboe-Ottesen, G. (Elsevier; www.elsevier.com/locate/nut, 2005)
    Objective: We investigated whether food variety and diversity are associated with physical and cognitive functioning in older adults in Botswana and designed a simple set of screening questions that predict food variety ...