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Nutrition policy or price stabilisation policy: which policy is more effective for nutrition outcomes? [PDF]
BMC NutritionBackground 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.
Marilys Victoire Razakamanana +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 +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 +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 +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Nutrition policy in Finland [PDF]
Public Health Nutrition, 2010 AbstractThe present study describes the main actions in Finnish nutrition policy during the past decades. The main actor is the National Nutrition Council, which provides nutritional recommendations and action programmes, and sets up expert groups to solve nutritional problems in the population.
Pirjo, Pietinen +3 more
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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 +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 +4 more
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Firms' responses to nutritional policies [PDF]
European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2012 The objective of this article is to gain a better understanding of firms strategies towards nutritional tax policies and to assess their impacts from a public health point of view. We determine how new products that are nutritionally improved can successfully emerge in an asymmetrical context in which firms do not have the same strategic incentives to ...
Duvaleix-Treguer, Sabine +3 more
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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 +7 more
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