Human Nutrition

Family poultry: Multiple roles, systems, challenges, and options for sustainable contributions to household nutrition security through a planetary health lens

Increasing egg availability through smallholder business models in East Africa and India

Use of chicken eggshell to improve dietary calcium intake in rural sub-Saharan Africa

Implementing small scale poultry for nutrition projects – successes and lessons learnt

An agriculture-nutrition intervention improved children’s diet and growth in a randomized trial in Ghana

Small scale egg production centres increase children’s egg consumption in rural Zambia

The Lulun Project’s social marketing strategy in a trial to introduce eggs during complementary feeding in Ecuador

The potential of a simple egg to improve maternal and child nutrition

Chessa K. Lutter, Lora L. Lannotti and Christine P. Stewart

Don’t ditch the yolk!

Whole egg ‘beats’ egg white for muscle strength post-exercise.

A guide of oral immunotherapy treatment to develop tolerance in allergic children to milk and egg proteins

Simply adding an egg helps malnourished infants and children grow

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L’ouef aux trésors, 2015 – Role of eggs consumption in women at different life stages

Although women need less energy than men, their recommended dietary intakes for some nutrients are similar or even higher.

CSIC develops healthy “snacks” from egg proteins

Press Release from Institute of Food Science Research (CSIC Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Maslova, 2015 – Dietary protein-to-carbohydrate ratio and added sugar as determinants of excessive gestational weight gain: a prospective cohort study

The last of three new articles about protein from a study called: The Diet, Obesity and Genes (DioGenes)

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The role of higher protein diets in weight control and obesity-related comorbidities

The second of three new articles about protein from a study called: The Diet, Obesity and Genes (DioGenes)

Engberink, 2015 – Effect of a high-protein diet on maintenance of blood pressure levels achieved after initial weight loss

The first of three new articles about protein from a study called: The Diet, Obesity and Genes (DioGenes)

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Study made in Guatemala with 5 eggs a week

This article is in Spanish – The intake of five eggs a week improves nutritional status, as anthropometric and blood …

Dietary Cholesterol Affects Plasma Lipid Levels, the Intravascular Processing of Lipoproteins and Reverse Cholesterol Transport without Increasing the Risk for Heart Disease

Barona and Fernandez, 2012

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