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What are American children eating? Implications for public policy.
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This review is organized around a series of policy issues looking at these new food consumption patterns, their relationship to the Dietary Guidelines, and their impact on children's health.Abstract:
As the health and demographic profile of the U.S. population changes, the food consumption patterns of American children have also changed. This review is organized around a series of policy issues looking at these new food consumption patterns, their relationship to the Dietary Guidelines, and their impact on children's health.read more
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Promoting healthy eating and ensuring adequate weight gain in pregnant adolescents: issues and strategies.
TL;DR: Seven specific strategies discussed for promoting the nutritional health of pregnant adolescents can be categorized into three broad areas: improve nutrition knowledge and skills of adolescents, as well as health care providers, and direct research efforts to better understand barriers to behavior change and conduct scientifically rigorous program evaluations of efficacy of nutrition interventions.
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Nutrition and diet-related problems
TL;DR: Typical problems and recommendations for normal adolescent nutrition as well as nutrient needs for special conditions such as obesity, athletics, and vegetarianism are addressed.
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Maternal knowledge of infant feeding guidelines and label reading behaviours in a population of new mothers in San Francisco, California.
TL;DR: Higher household income was independently associated with increased maternal nutrition knowledge and likelihood of reading nutritional labels and more comprehensive interventions need to target low-income mothers including current WIC participants to help close the nutritional advantages gap conferred by income and education.
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Evaluation of a feeding programme in addressing malnutrition in a primary school
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Influences of a Chronic Disease Risk Reduction Curriculum Called “Live!” on Fat and Fiber Knowledge and Attitudes of Black and White Adolescents
Jenice Rankins,Lorraine Weatherspoon,Laura Cook,Cathy Reed,Jo Shuford-Law,Yolanda P. Davis,Millie Kissinger,Penny A. Ralston +7 more
TL;DR: A 6-week curriculum, “Live!”: Eat Less Fat and More Fiber, was tested in the food and consumer sciences classes of four middle schools in Tallahassee, Florida and showed that the “ live!" curriculum significantly improved students' nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices.
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