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Background Nutritional supplements are an important source of complementary food for young children, since they may either complement or substitute nutrients obtained from other food sources.
Gabriela Añorve-Valdez+4 more
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Feeding the Worlth Healthily: the Challenge of Measuring the effects of Agriculture on Health [PDF]
Agricultural production, food systems and population health are intimately linked. While there is a strong evidence base to inform our knowledge of what constitutes a healthy human diet, we know little about actual food production or consumption in many ...
Alan D. Dangour+38 more
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OBJETIVO: avaliar a reprodutibilidade e validade de indicadores de consumo de alimentos e bebidas levantados por meio de entrevistas telefônicas pelo Sistema de Vigilância de Fatores de Risco e Proteção para Doenças Crônicas por Telefone (VIGITEL ...
Larissa Loures Mendes+5 more
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Sex non-specific growth charts and potential clinical implications in the care of transgender youth
IntroductionThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) created separate growth charts for girls and boys because growth patterns and rates differ between sexes.
Eric Morris Bomberg+7 more
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Simulating price subsidies on healthy foods in Mexico
Objective: To simulate the impact of a price subsidy (price reduction) on purchases of healthy foods with suboptimal consumption. Design: We used data from the 2018 Mexican National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, a cross-sectional study.
Jesús E Morales-Ríos+5 more
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Background: Food insecurity has attracted the attention of people, experts, and policymakers as a major public health problem over the past two decades. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of food insecurity among children aged 6 to 59 ...
Hanieh Ghasemzadeh+4 more
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Background: The proportion of the US adult population who meet fiber intake recommendations is very low. Information about food groups consumed and diet quality for the adults who consume recommended amounts of fiber are scarce.
Carla R. McGill+2 more
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Convenience stores: an obesogenic promoter in a metropolitan area of northern Mexico?
IntroductionThe prevalence of obesity in the Mexican school-age (5–11 years old) population increased from 8.9 to 18.1% between 1999 and 2022. Although overweight and obesity (OW + Ob) is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon, alongside its increasing ...
Marco Antonio Ávila Arcos+4 more
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Inequalities in diet and physical activity in Europe [PDF]
The contribution of food, nutrition and physical activity to inequalities in health across Europe is largely unexplored. This paper summarizes cross sectional survey data on food patterns and nutrient intakes, and briefer data on physical activity, by ...
Barlösius+44 more
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Food and nutrition security in Timor-Leste [PDF]
This report is a literature review on Food and Nutrition Security in Timor-Leste based on data from surveys conducted by the Timor-Leste National Statistics Directorate, as well as from national and international organizations working in Timor-Leste ...
Andersen, A.B., Pant, J., Thilsted, S.H.
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