Double-duty actions: seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms

C Hawkes, MT Ruel, L Salm, B Sinclair, F Branca - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Actions to address different forms of malnutrition are typically managed by separate
communities, policies, programmes, governance structures, and funding streams. By …

Systematic review and meta‐analysis of breastfeeding and later overweight or obesity expands on previous study for World Health Organization

BL Horta, N Rollins, MS Dias, V Garcez… - Acta …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To update a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association of breastfeeding
with overweight or obesity that had been commissioned by the World Health Organization …

Complementary feeding: a position paper by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Committee on Nutrition

M Fewtrell, J Bronsky, C Campoy… - Journal of pediatric …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
This position paper considers different aspects of complementary feeding (CF), focussing on
healthy term infants in Europe. After reviewing current knowledge and practices, we have …

Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

PR Britto, SJ Lye, K Proulx, AK Yousafzai, SG Matthews… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to
implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the …

Early taste experiences and later food choices

V De Cosmi, S Scaglioni, C Agostoni - Nutrients, 2017 - mdpi.com
Background. Nutrition in early life is increasingly considered to be an important factor
influencing later health. Food preferences are formed in infancy, are tracked into childhood …

Bitter, sweet, salty, sour and umami taste perception decreases with age: Sex-specific analysis, modulation by genetic variants and taste-preference associations in 18 …

R Barragán, O Coltell, O Portolés, EM Asensio, JV Sorlí… - Nutrients, 2018 - mdpi.com
There is growing interest in relating taste perception to diet and healthy aging. However,
there is still limited information on the influence of age, sex and genetics on taste acuity as …

Increased mortality in schizophrenia due to cardiovascular disease–a non-systematic review of epidemiology, possible causes, and interventions

PA Ringen, JA Engh, AB Birkenaes, I Dieset… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Background: Schizophrenia is among the major causes of disability worldwide and the
mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is significantly elevated. There is a growing …

Alteration, reduction and taste loss: main causes and potential implications on dietary habits

D Risso, D Drayna, G Morini - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Our sense of taste arises from the sensory information generated after compounds in the
oral cavity and oropharynx activate taste receptor cells situated on taste buds. This produces …

The sweetness and bitterness of childhood: Insights from basic research on taste preferences

JA Mennella, NK Bobowski - Physiology & behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
In this article, we review findings from basic, experimental research on children that suggest
that the liking of sweet and the dislike of bitter tastes reflect children's basic biology. Children …

Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research …

VI Kraak, M Story - obesity reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing the extent and persuasive power of marketing unhealthy foods to children
worldwide are important obesity prevention goals. Research is limited to understand how …