G H Pelto

Summary

Affiliation: Cornell University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The focused ethnographic study 'assessing the behavioral and local market environment for improving the diets of infants and young children 6 to 23 months old' and its use in three countries
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
    Matern Child Nutr 9:35-46. 2013
  2. ncbi Interrelationships between power-related and belief-related factors determine nutrition in populations
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
    J Nutr 133:297S-300S. 2003
  3. ncbi Nutrition counseling training changes physician behavior and improves caregiver knowledge acquisition
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
    J Nutr 134:357-62. 2004
  4. ncbi Premastication: the second arm of infant and young child feeding for health and survival?
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Matern Child Nutr 6:4-18. 2010
  5. ncbi Balancing nurturance, cost and time: complementary feeding in Accra, Ghana
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
    Matern Child Nutr 7:66-81. 2011
  6. ncbi Maternal consumption of pulque, a traditional central Mexican alcoholic beverage: relationships to infant growth and development
    J R Backstrand
    Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
    Public Health Nutr 4:883-91. 2001
  7. ncbi Pulque intake during pregnancy and lactation in rural Mexico: alcohol and child growth from 1 to 57 months
    J R Backstrand
    Joint PhD Program in Urban Systems, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07107, USA
    Eur J Clin Nutr 58:1626-34. 2004
  8. ncbi The nutritional phenotype in the age of metabolomics
    S H Zeisel
    American Society for Nutritional Sciences Long Range Planning Committee, Bethesda, MD 20814 3990, USA
    J Nutr 135:1613-6. 2005
  9. ncbi Plot and see! Maternal comprehension of growth charts worldwide
    D Roberfroid
    Nutrition and Child Health Unit, Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Trop Med Int Health 12:1074-86. 2007

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi The focused ethnographic study 'assessing the behavioral and local market environment for improving the diets of infants and young children 6 to 23 months old' and its use in three countries
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
    Matern Child Nutr 9:35-46. 2013
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  2. ncbi Interrelationships between power-related and belief-related factors determine nutrition in populations
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
    J Nutr 133:297S-300S. 2003
    ..However, even in better-off households dietary quality is not uniformly high, a finding that reflects the operation of other values and cultural factors that direct resource allocation to other sectors of family activity...
  3. ncbi Nutrition counseling training changes physician behavior and improves caregiver knowledge acquisition
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
    J Nutr 134:357-62. 2004
    ..These include locally appropriate messages, tools for assessing individual problems, and counseling skills...
  4. ncbi Premastication: the second arm of infant and young child feeding for health and survival?
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Matern Child Nutr 6:4-18. 2010
    ..We conclude with the argument for a concerted research effort to determine whether premastication can solve not only the 'weanling dilemma' in poor countries but also some of the health problems among the better-off...
  5. ncbi Balancing nurturance, cost and time: complementary feeding in Accra, Ghana
    Gretel H Pelto
    Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
    Matern Child Nutr 7:66-81. 2011
    ..We conclude that the interactions of nurturance, cost and time are vectors that affect feeding decisions...
  6. ncbi Maternal consumption of pulque, a traditional central Mexican alcoholic beverage: relationships to infant growth and development
    J R Backstrand
    Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
    Public Health Nutr 4:883-91. 2001
    ..To document the consumption during pregnancy of pulque, a traditional central Mexican alcoholic beverage, and its relationship to subsequent infant size, physical growth and performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development...
  7. ncbi Pulque intake during pregnancy and lactation in rural Mexico: alcohol and child growth from 1 to 57 months
    J R Backstrand
    Joint PhD Program in Urban Systems, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07107, USA
    Eur J Clin Nutr 58:1626-34. 2004
    ..To examine maternal intake of a mildly alcoholic beverage (pulque) during pregnancy and lactation, and its potential effect on postpartum child growth and attained size...
  8. ncbi The nutritional phenotype in the age of metabolomics
    S H Zeisel
    American Society for Nutritional Sciences Long Range Planning Committee, Bethesda, MD 20814 3990, USA
    J Nutr 135:1613-6. 2005
    ..This conceptualization of a nutritional phenotype provides a concrete form and substance to the recognized future of nutritional sciences as a field addressing diet, integrated metabolism, and health...
  9. ncbi Plot and see! Maternal comprehension of growth charts worldwide
    D Roberfroid
    Nutrition and Child Health Unit, Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Trop Med Int Health 12:1074-86. 2007
    ..To evaluate maternal comprehension of growth charts used in growth monitoring and promotion (GMP), a worldwide programme with important budgets but contrasting results...