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Processed supermarket meals gives food for thought

With more people eating at home due to COVID-19, New Curtin research published in Public Health Nutrition has found more than half of Australian supermarket own brand chilled ready-made meals are unhealthy and 94 percent are ‘ultra-processed’ – yet more than 80 percent are labelled with a ‘pass mark’ under the Health Star Rating system.…

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Strategies to Address Anaemia Among Pregnant and Lactating Women in India

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for April is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Strategies to address anaemia among pregnant and lactating women in India: a formative research study’ by Pamela A Williams, Jon Poehlman, Katelin Moran, Mariam Siddiqui, Ishu Kataria, Anna Merlyn Rego, Purnima Mehrotra and Neela Saldanha.…

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How are the current dietary practices for young French children?

Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘The French national survey on food consumption of children under 3 years of age – Nutri-Bébé 2013: design, methodology, population sampling and feeding practices’  by Authors: Jean-Pierre Chouraqui, Gabriel Tavoularis, Yves Emery, Aurée Francou, Pascale Hébel, Magali Bocquet, Régis Hankard and Dominique Turck.…

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Citizen Science to Study Food Environments

Residents from the neighborhood of Los Rosales (Madrid, Spain), public health practitioners, and researchers worked together in this citizen science project. We analyzed how the food environment influenced residents’ diets from a multi-level perspective in Madrid. The results have been published in Public Health Nutrition. 

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A formula for concern: The boom of milk-based formula sales

To ensure children get the best start in life the World Health Organization recommends that infants are exclusively breastfed to six months of age with ongoing breastfeeding for up to two years of age and beyond. Yet worldwide the prevalence of infants exclusively breast fed to six months hovers at around 37% and has improved only marginally in recent decades.

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New study finds depression associated with vitamin D deficiency among urban Malaysian women

Researchers from the Julius Centre University of Malaya (JCUM) have found a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and depressive symptoms among urban Malaysian women. More than two-thirds of the women who participated in the study, published in Public Health Nutrition, were vitamin D deficient, and those with vitamin D deficiency were at a higher risk for depression and reported poorer mental health.

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Eating home or away: Effects on BMI and dietary intake

A study, conducted by Ilana Nogueira Bezerra and colleagues at the University of Fortaleza and the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, demonstrated that there was no significant difference between non-consumers and consumers of away-from-home food (AFHF) in prevalence of overweight and obesity among men.…

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