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Nutrition policy or price stabilisation policy: which policy is more effective for nutrition outcomes? [PDF]

BMC Nutr
Background Malnutrition remains a global problem and is increasing with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Madagascar, half of the children under five years of age suffer from stunting.
Razakamanana MV, Rakotonirainy M, Ramiandrisoa TO.   +2 more
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Sugar-sweetened beverage intakes among adults between 1990 and 2018 in 185 countries

Nature Communications, 2023
Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are associated with cardiometabolic diseases and social inequities. For most nations, recent estimates and trends of intake are not available; nor variation by education or urbanicity.
Laura Lara-Castor, Renata Micha, Frederick Cudhea, Victoria Miller, Peilin Shi, Jianyi Zhang, Julia R. Sharib, Josh Erndt-Marino, Sean B. Cash, Dariush Mozaffarian, Global Dietary Database   +10 more
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Completeness of open access FluNet influenza surveillance data for Pan-America in 2005–2019

Scientific Reports, 2021
For several decades, the World Health Organization has collected, maintained, and distributed invaluable country-specific disease surveillance data that allow experts to develop new analytical tools for disease tracking and forecasting.
Ryan B. Simpson, Jordyn Gottlieb, Bingjie Zhou, Meghan A. Hartwick, Elena N. Naumova   +4 more
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Fortified blended flour supplements displace plain cereals in feeding of young children

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
Lipid‐based nutritional supplements (LNS) and fortified blended flours (FBF) are widely used to increase the nutrient density of children's diets and improve their health, but their effectiveness could be modified by displacement of other foods.
Ilana R. Cliffer, William A. Masters, Beatrice L. Rogers   +2 more
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Strengthening Governance and Institutional Capacity at the Nutrition-Food Supply Policy Nexus; Comment on “What Opportunities Exist for Making the Food Supply Nutrition Friendly? A Policy Space Analysis in Mexico” [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022
Cervantes et al have provided an insightful addition to the policy literature by identifying the contextual, political, and policy factors that create constraints and opportunities for putting nutrition at the center of the food supply chain policy ...
Sirinya Phulkerd
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Less animal protein and more whole grain in US school lunches could greatly reduce environmental impacts

Communications Earth & Environment, 2022
40% of the global warming potential of lunches served in the United States National School Lunch Program are attributable to the 20% most environmentally damaging lunches, according to a food system life cycle analysis.
Alexandra L. Stern, Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Christina D. Economos, Timothy S. Griffin   +3 more
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalizations Attributable to Cardiometabolic Conditions in the United States: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
BACKGROUND Risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) hospitalization is robustly linked to cardiometabolic health. We estimated the absolute and proportional COVID‐19 hospitalizations in US adults attributable to 4 major US cardiometabolic conditions ...
Meghan O’Hearn, Junxiu Liu, Frederick Cudhea, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian   +4 more
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Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program

Nature Communications, 2021
India’s national school feeding program is the largest of its kind in the world, but the long-term program benefits on nutrition are unknown. Here, the authors show intergenerational program benefits, in that women who received free meals in primary ...
Suman Chakrabarti, Samuel P. Scott, Harold Alderman, Purnima Menon, Daniel O. Gilligan   +4 more
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Validation of Food Compass with a healthy diet, cardiometabolic health, and mortality among U.S. adults, 1999–2018

Nature Communications, 2022
The Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system to characterize the healthfulness of diverse foods, beverages and meals. In a nationally representative cohort of 47,999 U.S.
Meghan O’Hearn, Joshua Erndt-Marino, Suzannah Gerber, Brianna N. Lauren, Christina Economos, John B. Wong, Jeffrey B. Blumberg, Dariush Mozaffarian   +7 more
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You are what your parents expect: Height and local reference points [PDF]

Journal of Econometrics, April 1, 2022, 2022
Recent estimates are that about 150 million children under five years of age are stunted, with substantial negative consequences for their schooling, cognitive skills, health, and economic productivity. Therefore, understanding what determines such growth retardation is significant for designing public policies that aim to address this issue.
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