Theresa A Nicklas

..A secondary goal was to look at factors that influenced the total amounts of food and energy consumed among preschoolers at the dinner meal...

..Data suggest that diet quality is inversely associated with several CVRF...

..One hundred percent fruit juice (100% FJ) has been viewed by some as a sweetened beverage with concerns about its effect on weight. Little regard has been given to the contribution of 100% FJ to diet quality...

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..To determine whether fruit and vegetable (FV) commercials have an impact on preschool children's preferences for specific FV...

..There was no difference in diet quality between HLLF beef consumers and non-beef consumers. Moderate consumption of lean beef contributes to intakes of selected nutrients and diet quality was similar to non-beef consumers...

..Longitudinal studies using more robust and precise measures of dietary intake are needed to further investigate the role of AS and weight in children...

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..To evaluate types of foods and amounts consumed by 10-year-old children during the period from 1973 to 1994...

..More studies are needed to confirm these regional findings, which may not be reflective of national trends...

..To examine the association between dietary patterns (DP) and risk for metabolic syndrome (MetS); and to identify differences in DP by socio-economic, demographic and lifestyle factors...

..05) was positively associated with obesity. Eating patterns are associated with overweight status in young adults; however, the amount of variance explained in the body mass index was very small...

..The objective of this study was to analyze children's meal patterns over 2 decades...

..National data comparing nutrient intakes and anthropometric measures in children/adolescents in the United States who skip breakfast or consume different types of breakfasts are limited...

..The present study aimed to assess the association of diverse parenting practices to promote F&V and its consumption among pre-school children...

..CONCLUSIONS: More effective nutrition educational efforts are needed to emphasize the importance of adequate calcium intake and the major food sources of calcium, beginning early in childhood and continuing into young adulthood...

..To examine if food group consumption varies by differences in socioeconomic, demographic, and lifestyle factors in young adults from a semirural setting in Louisiana...

..A secondary aim was to examine differences on child weight status across the feeding styles...

..CONCLUSION: Increasing intake of calcium and low-fat dairy products may be associated with lower abdominal adiposity, particularly in young adult white males...

..Among many low-income young children, the responsibility for feeding may have shifted from family members to child care providers because these children spend the majority of their day in child care settings...

..Despite the possible social norm for a larger body size among low-income minorities, some mothers of overweight minority children do perceive their children to be too heavy when they reach a certain size...

..National health policies designed to prevent the Metabolic Syndrome, its individual abnormalities, and its complications using population-based characteristics of each nation will generate improved outcomes...

..To evaluate the impact of a "walking school bus" program on children's rates of active commuting to school and physical activity...

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..Implications of these results for understanding the role of parental socialization in the development of child obesity are discussed...

..Public health organizations and dietetics professionals need to educate adults on practical strategies for increasing dairy product consumption for improving the nutritional quality of adults' diets...

..The secondary aim was to examine whether feeding styles were still related to children's body mass index independent of parent affect, child temperament, and known correlates...

..Some beverages are nutrient dense, but they are often excluded from nutrient density calculations. The purpose of this study was to assess whether the energy-nutrient association changed when beverages were included in these calculations...

..To investigate the associations between 4 categories of daily 100% juice consumption (0 fl oz, > 0 to < or = 6 fl oz; > 6 to < 12 fl oz; and > or = 12 fl oz) and nutrient and food group intake and weight in children...

..To assess the impact of breakfast skipping and type of breakfast consumed on energy/nutrient intake, nutrient adequacy, and diet quality...

..IMPLICATION: Development of a valid and reliable method for assessing FJV preferences of preschool children may be useful in characterizing FJV preferences of young children and in evaluating specific intervention programs...

..We also examined whether MVPA mediated the relationships between active commuting and adiposity...

..01) of crossing at the corner/crosswalk but 5-fold lower odds (p<0.01) of stopping at the curb. The protocol appears feasible for documenting changes to school-level PSB...

..This article describes the development process, scientific basis, and specific recommendations for one of the key messages...

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..The goal of the study was to assess the validity and feasibility of a digital diet estimation method for use with preschool children in Head Start...

..Childhood obesity is a growing public health problem. This study examined the association between eating patterns and overweight status in children who participated in the Bogalusa Heart Study...

..The 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) recognized calcium, potassium and magnesium, all found in high levels in dairy foods, among the shortfall nutrients in both children and adults' diets...

..Further, differences were found among the feeding styles on an independent measure of child's body mass index...

..Markey C.N., Sawyer R., Johnson S.L. Confirmatory factor analysis of the child feeding questionnaire: a measure of parental attitudes, beliefs and practices about child feeding and obesity proneness. Appetite 2001;36:201-10]...

..Interventions aimed at improving children's nutrition need to address the variety of social and physical factors that influence children's eating patterns...

..To examine diet- and body size-related attitudes and behaviors associated with supplement use in a representative sample of fourth-grade students in Texas...

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..Study objective was to validate uniaxial and triaxial accelerometers in preschoolers...

..Study objective was to validate uniaxial and triaxial accelerometers in preschoolers...

..The influence of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and general versus central adiposity on pediatric metabolic risk is not well described...

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..However, consumption of individual fats tends to be highly correlated, and we were unable to determine if these biological effects were operating independently...

..In conclusion, there are differences in the prevalence of MetS, obesity, and the individual MetS risk factors between the US and Korean adolescents; however, the risk of MetS among obese adolescents is similar in both countries...

..Specifically, this review will summarize the current nutrition environment and address the need for future research around nutrient-profiling systems as a means to define nutrient density...

..The implications of these changes and differences on biologic risk factors for specific chronic diseases warrant further investigation...

..With the increasing demands being placed on families and the decreasing amount of time being spent on food preparation, nutrition education programs should continue to promote a higher level of efficient food choices...

..The goal of this study was to test the reliability and convergent validity of four TV viewing measures among low-income Latino preschool children in the United States...

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..This research validated the SRTS school travel survey and a pedestrian safety behavior checklist...

..With this information, clinicians should find themselves better equipped to face the challenges of assessing childhood overweight and obesity accurately...

..Given the skepticism surrounding industry-funded research, we need guidelines for communication with funding organizations and publication venues, and we need to safeguard and preserve research and scientific integrity...