Interventions for preventing obesity in children

L Hooper, Y Gao, A Zayegh, S Ijaz… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Prevention of childhood obesity is an international public health priority given
the significant impact of obesity on acute and chronic diseases, general health, development …

Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under

RK Hodder, KM O'Brien, RJ Wyse… - Cochrane Database …, 2024 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Insufficient consumption of fruits and vegetables in childhood increases the risk
of future non‐communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease. Testing the effects …

Nutrition in the first 1000 days: Ten practices to minimize obesity emerging from published science

A Pietrobelli, M Agosti, MeNu Group - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased in most countries the
last decades. Considering this in a simplistic way, we can say that obesity is the result of an …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep, nutrition, and physical activity interventions to prevent obesity in infancy: follow-up of the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI) randomized …

RW Taylor, AR Gray, ALM Heath, BC Galland… - The American journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Background Our Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI) study suggested that
a brief sleep intervention in infancy reduced the risk of obesity at age 2 y. In contrast, we …

Understanding the pathways between prenatal and postnatal factors and overweight outcomes in early childhood: a pooled analysis of seven cohorts

M Zheng, KD Hesketh, P Vuillermin, J Dodd… - International Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Background/objectives Childhood overweight and obesity are influenced by a range of
prenatal and postnatal factors. Few studies have explored the integrative pathways linking …

24-h movement behaviors from infancy to preschool: cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships with body composition and bone health

RW Taylor, JJ Haszard, KA Meredith-Jones… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background New physical activity guidelines for children address all movement behaviors
across the 24-h day (physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep), but how each component …

Adherence to 24-h movement behavior guidelines and psychosocial functioning in young children: a longitudinal analysis

RW Taylor, JJ Haszard, D Healey… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background A recent paradigm shift has highlighted the importance of considering how
sleep, physical activity and sedentary behaviour work together to influence health, rather …

Determinants of rapid infant weight gain: A pooled analysis of seven cohorts

M Zheng, KD Hesketh, P Vuillermin, J Dodd… - Pediatric …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Rapid weight gain (RWG) in infancy is strongly associated with subsequent
obesity risk, but little is known about the factors driving RWG. This study explored the child …

[HTML][HTML] Using compositional principal component analysis to describe children's gut microbiota in relation to diet and body composition

C Leong, JJ Haszard, ALM Heath, GW Tannock… - The American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Gut microbiota data obtained by DNA sequencing are complex and
compositional because of large numbers of detectable taxa, and because microbiota …

[HTML][HTML] Physical activity and inactivity trajectories associated with body composition in pre-schoolers

K Meredith-Jones, J Haszard, C Moir… - International journal of …, 2018 - nature.com
Background/objectives Early childhood is characterised by rapid development and is a
critical period for the establishment of activity behaviours. We aim to examine how physical …