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Mariaan Wicks

Researcher at North-West University

Publications -  9
Citations -  80

Mariaan Wicks is an academic researcher from North-West University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 7 publications receiving 53 citations.

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Restricting the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children in South Africa: are all nutrient profiling models the same?

TL;DR: The SANPM is considered appropriate for child-directed food marketing regulations in South Africa and an almost perfect pairwise agreement existed between the SANPM and the UK Food Standards Agency model, a model extensively tested and validated for such regulations.
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Dietary Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk in Black Urban South African Women: The SABC Study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that a traditional dietary pattern and a cereal-dairy breakfast dietary pattern may reduce the risk of developing breast cancer in the South African Breast Cancer in this population.
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Assessing the construct validity of nutrient profiling models for restricting the marketing of foods to children in South Africa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the construct validity of various NP models for the purpose of restricting the marketing of unhealthy foods to children in South Africa by comparing the classification of foods by the models to the ranking of the same foods by registered dietitians.