Dietary diversity is associated with child nutritional status: evidence from 11 demographic and health surveys.

By M. Arimond, M. Ruel. Journal of NutriLife, 2004

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Synopsis: Agricultural production and children’s diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia: (2017, neutral): “Arimond and Ruel (2004), Mallard et al.”
Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies: Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan (2010, background): “In particular, low levels of dietary diversity have been statistically linked to poor diet quality and inadequate nutrient intake (Arimond and Ruel, 2004).”
Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies (2014, background): “, 2008) and human health (Arimond and Ruel, 2004; Kant et al., 1993; Slattery et al., 1997; Levi et al., 1998), but the concept of nutritional diversity has yet to be integrated into planning and assessments of agricultural and food systems and policies.”
Handbook of cultural developmental science (2010, background): “For example, dietary diversity is associated with child nutritional status (Arimond and Ruel, 2004), but diversity is reduced by poverty and market dependency.”
Improving the Measurement of Food Security (2012, positive): “A subsequent study by Arimond and Ruel (2006) tested whether the Demographic and Health Surveys’ dietary diversity indicator could explain childhood stunting in 11 countries, and found it to be a significant explanatory variable in all but one country.”
From food availability to nutritional capabilities: Advancing food security analysis (2016, background): “A person may choose to ‘‘help themselves’’ by, for example, diversifying 18 See: Hoddinott and Yohannes (2002) and Arimond and Ruel (2004).”
Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape (2015, background): “Evidence linking dietary diversity to energy and micronutrient adequacy, and to child growth is now well established (Ruel 2003; Arimond and Ruel 2004; Arimond et al. 2010; Kennedy et al. 2011).”
Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households (2015, neutral): “Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111(11):4001–4006.”
Armed Conflicts and Food Insecurity: Evidence from Boko Haram's Attacks (2019, background): “Diverse diets are instrumental to meeting nutrient requirements and are positively associated with good nutritional status (Arimond and Ruel 2004; Hooshmand and Udipi 2013).”
Climate Change and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Literature Review (2010, background): “A major influence on poor nutrition is lack of a diversified diet, which is seen to result in a failure to ingest certain essential nutrients [38].”
The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger (2007, neutral): “Proper cut-offs must be based on further research that relates measures of diet diversity to measures of nutrient adequacy in specific populations (Arimond and Ruel 2004).”
Food Access Deficiencies in Sub-saharan Africa: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions (2019, background): “…scales and diet diversity scores have been favorably assessed as proxies for nutrient adequacy (Torheim et al., 2004; Steyn et al., 2006; Lachat et al., 2017), diet quality (Savy et al., 2005) and child growth/stunting (see Arimond and Ruel, 2004; Saha et al., 2009 and also Rah et al., 2010).”