Kavle, Justine A LaCroix, Elizabeth Dau, Hallie Engmann, Cyril
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Public health nutrition
Improving the counselling skills of health workers to address breast-feeding problems and increasing community support for breast-feeding are critical components of infant and young child feeding programming, which will aid in attaining the 2025 World Health Assembly EBF targets. Legislation and regulations on marketing of breast-milk substitutes, ...
Bruening, Meg Dinour, Lauren M Chavez, Jose B Rosales
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Findings suggest a bidirectional association whereby food insecurity increases the risk of poor emotional health, and poor emotional health increases the risk of food insecurity. Better-constructed studies are needed to follow cohorts at risk for both food insecurity and poor emotional health to further understand the mediators and moderators of th...
Cabrera, Manuel Machín, Leandro Arrúa, Alejandra Antúnez, Lucía Curutchet, María Rosa Giménez, Ana Ares, Gastón
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Public health nutrition
Results from the experiments provide recommendations for the design of warnings to identify products with unfavourable nutrient profile.
Dubois, Christophe Tharrey, Marion Darmon, Nicole
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A method was developed to ease the identification of foods with good nutritional quality and price. The Good Price Booklet is an effective tool to help guide people shopping on a low budget.
Berge, Jerica M Truesdale, Kimberly P Sherwood, Nancy E Mitchell, Nathan Heerman, William J Barkin, Shari Matheson, Donna Levers-Landis, Carolyn E French, Simone A
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Breakfast family meal frequency and total weekly family meal frequency were associated with healthier diet quality in non-Hispanic pre-school children but not in Hispanic children. Longitudinal research is needed to clarify the association between family meal type and child diet quality and BMI percentile.
Yong, Lee Ching Gray, Andrew R Chisholm, Alex Leong, Sook Ling Tey, Siew Ling Brown, Rachel C
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Despite overall basic knowledge of the nutritional value of nuts, a substantial proportion of the general population was unaware of the cardioprotective effects of nuts. The present study identified common motivations for eating and avoiding nuts, as well as perceptions of nuts which could affect intake. These should guide the content and direction...
Smed, Sinne Tetens, Inge Bøker Lund, Thomas Holm, Lotte Ljungdalh Nielsen, Annemette
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Unemployment has a substantial influence on diet composition, but effects vary with duration of the unemployment period, which may have potential health implications. This ought to be taken into consideration in evaluations of existing reforms and in future reforms of welfare systems.
Berge, Jerica M Miller, Jonathan Watts, Allison Larson, Nicole Loth, Katie A Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne
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Results suggest that mental and physical health benefits of having regular family meals may be realized as a parent whether the routine of regular family meals is carried forward from adolescence into parenthood, or if the routine is started in parenthood.
Sotero, Andréa M Ferreira, Haroldo da S Assunção, Monica L de Lira, Pedro Israel C
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The results suggest that higher pre-gestational BMI is associated with shorter duration of EBF and BF. Prenatal care provides a privileged opportunity to promote nutritional education, better nutritional status of pregnant woman, and greater success with EBF up to 6 months of age and with longer BF.
Nasreddine, Lara Tamim, Hani Itani, Leila Nasrallah, Mona P Isma'eel, Hussain Nakhoul, Nancy F Abou-Rizk, Joana Naja, Farah
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The study findings may be used for the development of evidence-based interventions aimed at encouraging the consumption of minimally processed foods.
