The time children spend in childcare overlaps with daily meals and opportunities to be
active. Thus these environments have the opportunity to promote—or hinder—healthy …

Background Comprehensive and psychometrically tested measures of availability and
accessibility of food are needed in order to explore availability and accessibility as …

Introduction Objective, observational measures of nutrition environments are now well
established and widely used. Individuals' perceptions of their nutrition environments may be …

Purpose To identify the social-ecological correlates associated with fundamental movement
skills at the child, family, and environment levels in young children. Methods Preschool …

Our aim was to describe food neophobia, parenting feeding practices, and concordance in
food preferences between parent–child dyads using a cross-sectional on-line survey …

Effective vaccines are needed to combat diarrheal diseases due to Shigella. Two live oral S.
sonnei vaccine candidates, WRSs2 and WRSs3, attenuated principally by the lack of …

Over the last decades, economic, social, and environmental changes have profoundly
affected citizen-consumer's lifestyle and food habits. Current food habits encourage people …

Background Home food environments (HFE) of children impact dietary intake, though
relatively few studies have focused on young children from backgrounds with …

Objective (s) The purpose of this integrative review was to identify factors associated with
obesity in Hispanic preschool children. Design and Sample Integrative research review …

Although obesogenic behaviors (physical activity and/or sedentary behavior and dietary
intake) are known predictors of childhood weight status, little is known about mother and …