Over the past decade, the gut microbiota has emerged as a key component in regulating
brain processes and behavior. Diet is one of the major factors involved in shaping the gut …

Diet, physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior are important, yet modifiable,
determinants of obesity. Recent research into the clustering of these behaviors suggests that …

Evidence on what people eat globally is limited in scope and rigour, especially as it relates
to children and adolescents. This impairs target setting and investment in evidence-based …

Obesity in childhood carries a wide range of physical, psychological and social disbenefits
and also increases the risk of adult obesity with its well-recognised, enhanced risk of several …

BACKGROUND: National data comparing nutrient intakes and anthropometric measures in
children/adolescents in the United States who skip breakfast or consume different types of …

Background The nutrition transition has brought about rapid changes in the structure of the
Indian diet. The replacement of traditional home-cooked meals with ready-to-eat, processed …

Objective: To discover whether eating behaviour traits show continuity and stability over
childhood. Subjects/Methods: Mothers of 428 twin children from the Twins Early …

Adolescence, with its change in dietary habits, is likely to be a vulnerable period in the onset
of obesity. It is considered that peers have an important role to play on adolescents' diet …

Aims: This paper presents a model that encompasses pathways and mechanisms working
over adolescence that contribute to adult health inequalities. We review evidence on the four …

Background Diet is a key risk factor for chronic disease, and an increasing concern among
older adults. We aim to examine the changes in dietary patterns using principal component …