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Effects of a healthy food supply intervention in a military setting: positive changes in cereal, fat and sugar containing foods

open access: yesInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2012
BackgroundIn Finland, all men are liable to military service and a clear majority completes service. The increasing prevalence of obesity also among soldiers concerns conscripts’ food choices.
Clarissa M. L. Bingham   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Energy Consumption of Lactating Mothers: Current Situation and Problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recommendations on the adequacy of nutrient intake indicate that lactating mothers have higher nutritional needs than do pregnant mothers. High nutrient intake is necessary to help mothers recover after childbirth, produce milk, and maintain the quantity
Fikawati, S. (Sandra)   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Non-Nutritive Sweeteners in the Packaged Food Supply—An Assessment across 4 Countries

open access: yesNutrients, 2018
Increased interest among consumers in the reduction of dietary sugar intake has led to the wider availability of food products containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS).
E. Dunford   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Food Insecurity and the Unsustainable Hunting of Wildlife in a UNESCO World Heritage Site

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019
Madagascar faces dual challenges in biodiversity conservation and public health. In order to identify strategies to reduce the unsustainable hunting of threatened species while maintaining or improving child nutrition, we quantified interactions among ...
Cortni Borgerson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food insecurity among households with children during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023
Understanding impacts of the COVID-19 pan­demic among households with children is neces­sary to design appropriate public health responses that protect food and nutrition security.
Bailey Houghtaling   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Processed foods and the nutrition transition: evidence from Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper elucidates the role of processed foods and beverages in the ‘nutrition transition’ underway in Asia. Processed foods tend to be high in nutrients associated with obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases: refined sugar, salt ...
Baker, Phillip, Friel, Sharon
core   +1 more source

Levelling foods for priority micronutrient value can provide more meaningful environmental footprint comparisons

open access: yesCommunications Earth & Environment, 2023
A growing literature in Life Cycle Assessment seeks to better inform consumers, food policymakers, food supply chain actors, and other relevant stakeholders about how individual foods contribute to sustainable diets.
Ryan Katz-Rosene   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Micronutrient Density of the Global Food Supply

open access: yesFood Frontiers
Global diets are inadequate in micronutrients, leading to deficiencies and related diseases. Addressing these micronutrient shortfalls requires increasing the nutrient density of the global food supply.
Nick W. Smith, Ty Beal
doaj   +1 more source

Food insecurity and the role of food assistance programs in supporting diet quality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2023
BackgroundEconomic and supply chain shocks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 led to substantial increases in the numbers of individuals experiencing food-related hardship in the US, with programs aimed at addressing food insecurity like the ...
Matthew M. Lee   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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