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Many development programs that aim to alleviate poverty and improve investments in human capital consider women’s empowerment a key pathway by which to achieve impact and often target women as their main beneficiaries. Despite this, women’s empowerment dimensions are often not rigorously measured and are at times merely assumed. This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. It then proceeds to review the evidence of the impact of three types of interventions—cash transfer programs, agricultural interventions, and microfinance programs—on women’s empowerment, nutrition, or both. Qualitative evidence on conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs generally points to positive impacts on women’s empowerment, although quantitative research findings are more heterogenous. CCT programs produce mixed results on long-term nutritional status, and very limited evidence exists of their impacts on micronutrient status. The little evidence available on unconditional cash transters (UCT) indicates mixed impacts on women’s empowerment and positive impacts on nutrition; however, recent reviews comparing CCT and UCT programs have found little difference in terms of their effects on stunting and they have found that conditionality is less important than other factors, such as access to healthcare and child age and sex. Evidence of cash transfer program impacts depending on the gender of the transfer recipient or on the conditionality is also mixed, although CCTs with non-health conditionalities seem to have negative impacts on nutritional status. The impacts of programs based on the gender of the transfer recipient show mixed results, but almost no experimental evidence exists of testing gender-differentiated impacts of a single program. Agricultural interventions—specifically home gardening and dairy projects—show mixed impacts on women’s empowerment measures such as time, workload, and control over income; but they demonstrate very little impact on nutrition. Implementation modalities are shown to determine differential impacts in terms of empowerment and nutrition outcomes. With regard to the impact of microfinance on women’s empowerment, evidence is also mixed, although more recent reviews do not find any impact on women’s empowerment. The impact of microfinance on nutritional status is mixed, with no evidence of impact on micronutrient status. Across all three types of programs (cash transfer programs, agricultural interventions, and microfinance programs), very little evidence exists on pathways of impact, and evidence is often biased toward a particular region. The paper ends with a discussion of the findings and remaining evidence gaps and an outline of recommendations for research.

For more than a decade, the editors of Women’s Health have been researching, analyzing, and evaluating every weight-loss technique on the planet. They've tested every workout, sampled every food, studied every bit of research, and consulted the top exercise and nutrition experts in the world. Now that expertise is gathered in one place. Packed with delicious recipes, hundreds of helpful tips, and weekly workout plans, this is the ultimate guide to a slimmer, sexier body. The Women’s Health Diet is jam-packed with hundreds of revolutionary fitness and nutrition tips including: The 80 Percent Rule: Why cheating on your diet isn’t just okay—It’s essential! 24 on-the-spot food fixes that will help you beat everything from big-meeting jitters to big-date angst Age-specific strategies to maximize progress, whether you’re 20, 30, 40, 50, or beyond! Dozens of mouthwatering recipes that satisfy and fight fat fast!

We are living in a society today that offers more food choices, more health support and more nutrition resources than ever before, and somehow as a human race we are fatter and sicker than ever before. Healthy eating and having health as our natural state of being are not impossible tasks. We simply need to reignite our innate ability to know what is good for us, how to maintain our health and heal naturally using the most fundamental tool-our food. Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition explores some of the reasons for today's nutritional misinformation and invites each reader to redefine what healthy truly means. From how we approach our food choices, to what we consider a treat and why the popular "everything in moderation" paradigm does not work are discussed. Teaching her audience and inviting them to be accountable for their own health and well being, Evita Ochel fully explores how to eat, what to eat and why for optimal health, healing and prevention in the simplest manner possible. Practical tips are given and specific foods are explored in order to empower the reader to understand all of their food choices. Whether you want to lose weight, heal or prevent a disease or simply maintain good health, this book will help you make sense of your food and all the nutritional information out there. It will put you back in charge of understanding your food and knowing without a doubt the power your nutritional choices have on the quality and longevity of your life.

Nutrition for Women cuts through the hype and dispels myths to bring you accurate, accessible information on nutrition, based on cutting-edge research of more than two thousand studies of women's health issues.

You’ve tried all the diets and lost a little but gained back a lot! What’s going wrong? Stop blaming yourself; it’s not your fault, says nutritionist Laura Cipullo, RD. In all likelihood, your natural body clock is out of whack, causing hormone disturbances that pack on fat especially in your belly, butt, thighs, and arms. Resetting your internal clock is the answer to working with your body, not against it. The Women’s Health Body Clock Diet taps the latest scientific research on the interplay of chronobiology and hormones to help you adjust your body clock and other internal timekeepers for optimum health and fat-burning capacity. This three-phase plan will resynchronize a body wracked by dysfunctional eating, too much stress and stimulation, and disruptive sleep patterns. This book will provide you with: • Three simple reset “buttons” that will rapidly shift your master body clock back into proper rhythm in less than 2 weeks • A meal plan (one that says cookies are A-OK!) crafted by a registered dietitian and certified eating disorders specialist • An hour-by-hour daily action plan to take advantage of your body’s natural hormone “bursts” to burn more calories, reduce sugar cravings, and optimize sleep to whittle your middle Using simple tools to stamp out cravings and identify nonphysical hunger cues, you’ll establish a positive approach to healthy eating and weight loss that will keep you deliciously lean for life.