Intervention in first 1000 days vital to fulfilling childhood potential
Safeguarding the healthy development of the next generation is vital for the long term success of the United Nation’s Millennium Development goals. New research in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences highlights the need to integrate global strategies aimed at tackling nutrition and cognitive development within the first thousand days of childhood.
February 7, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aimed-at-tackling, healthy, oncalldiets, sciences, term-success, the-healthy, united, united-nation
Crowdsourcing novel childhood predictors of adult obesity
Will your child be a slim adult? A novel new study published in PLOS ONE asked 532 international English speaking adults to submit or “crowd-source” predictors of whether a child is going to be an overweight or a slim adult. Each participant offered what they believed to be the best predictor of what a child would weigh as an adult and submitted it in the form of a question.
February 7, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: asked-532, novel-new, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, plos, speaking-adults, study-published, the-best, the-form
