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Article History

Received: 25 February 2022

Accepted: 4 August 2022

First Online: 12 August 2022

Declarations

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: The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and was reviewed by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute Institutional Ethics Review Committee with the protocol code FIERC2020018 dated November 4, 2020. The review board committee granted Exemption from Review of the study on December 3, 2020 based on the criteria of exemption as stipulated under provision 3.1 page 39 in the National Ethical Guidelines for Health and Health-related Research 2017, since the study involved “Protocols that involve the use of publicly available data or information”. Informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the 2018 Expanded National Nutrition Survey by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute prior to their participation in the survey and collection of data.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no conflict of interest. To ensure scientific integrity of the research, a Governing Principles document outlining rights and duties in this research was signed by all researchers or their institutions.