Human Growth and Nutrition in Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Dr. Sudip Datta Banik is the Head of the Department of Human Ecology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav-IPN in Spanish acronym) in Merida, Mexico, where he works since 2013. He was a Reader of Anthropology at Vidyasagar University in West Bengal, India, and was associated with the University (undergraduate and postgraduate Departments) from 1998 to 2012. Dr. Datta Banik is a Biological Anthropologist, a graduate from the University of Calcutta. A certified researcher of the National System of Researcher (SNI, Level 2) of the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology since 2011. He is a Fellow of Human Biology Association, U.S.A. His major professional interest includes child growth, health and nutrition, obesity and metabolic syndrome, sports nutrition. He has published more than 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters in edited volumes. Publications include four (04) edited volumes.  He has supervised theses at doctoral (4) and master’s (25) degree levels. Dr. Datta Banik acted as principal investigator in the research projects sponsored by several agencies in India and Mexico.

Chapter 1 Evolutionary perspectives on child growth and nutrition.-  Chapter 2 The complex relationship between food insecurity and malnutrition.- Chapter 3 Globalization, diet, and child health in three Latin American indigenous populations.- Chapter 4 Tuberculosis in children: a perspective from life history theory.- Chapter 5 Non-nutritional components in the diet.- Chapter 6 Reference curves of growth from Colombian National Surveys and anthropometric secular trends.- Chapter 7 Anthropometric indices for assessing nutritional status and health risk of schoolchildren and adolescents.- Chapter 8 The Extent of Residual Lower-Extremity Shortening in the Origins of Endemic Stunting among Guatemala Preschoolers: A photographic Examination.- Chapter 9 Evaluation of maturation among adolescent athletes.- Chapter 10 Secular trend in growth and nutritional status in Argentina over the last three decades.- Chapter  11  Changes in nutritional status and urbanization in a northeastern Patagonian city. A brief secular trend story of the school children from Puerto Madryn (Chubut, Argentina).- Chapter 12 Inequalities in malnutrition and living conditions of children from native and migrant families residing in the productive belt of La Plata city in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Chapter 13 Growth and Nutrition Indicators in Brazil: Some perspectives and changes from 1975 to 2019.- Chapter 14 Obesity in Chilean schoolchildren and the importance of the diagnostic criteria: body mass index, body fat percentage, and biotype.- Chapter 15 Growth, body composition, and some influential factors in infants, children and adolescents of Cuba.- Chapter 16 Height, weight, and body mass index in El Salvadoran schoolchildren from the Bajo Lempa rural region.- Chapter 17 Measuring the impact of stunting on child growth considering ontogeny and sexual dimorphism.- Chapter 18 Consequences of increased dependence on store foods on seasonal macronutrient intake and gut microbiota in Maya mothers and their 12- to 36-month-old children.- Chapter 19 Parasitic infection, obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies in school-aged children in Mexico.- Chapter 20 Biological and ecological impacts on recovery from anemia among peri-urban Peruvian children.