Public health nutrition
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Public health nutrition · Apr 2013
Multicenter StudyAssociation between WHO cut-offs for childhood overweight and obesity and cardiometabolic risk.
To examine the association between cardiovascular risk and childhood overweight and obesity using the BMI cut-offs recommended by the WHO. ⋯ Obesity and overweight defined using the WHO BMI-for-age cut-offs identified children with higher metabolic and vascular risk. These results emphasize the importance of prevention of overweight and obesity in childhood to reduce cardiovascular risk.
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Public health nutrition · Oct 2011
Multicenter StudyYoung children's food in Liverpool day-care settings: a qualitative study of pre-school nutrition policy and practice.
To explore nutrition and food provision in pre-school nurseries in order to develop interventions to promote healthy eating in early years settings, especially across deprived communities. ⋯ Nurseries are genuinely interested in providing appropriate healthy food for under-5s but require support. This includes: improved mechanisms for effective communication between all government levels as well as with nurseries; and funded training for cooks and managers in menu planning, cost-effective food sourcing and food preparation. Interventions to support healthy eating habits in young children developed at the area level need to be counterbalanced by continued appropriate national-level public health initiatives to address socio-economic differences.
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Public health nutrition · Jul 2009
Multicenter StudyLevel of adherence to the Mediterranean diet among children from Cyprus: the CYKIDS study.
The Mediterranean diet (MD) prototype is widely used as an educational tool in public health programmes; few studies, however, have been conducted on the adherence of children to this diet. ⋯ Higher adherence to MD is associated with better diet quality in children. The MD prototype may thus represent a useful educational tool for promotion of healthy eating habits in children.