Nutrition News

The proportion of total energy that children and adolescents consumed from ultra-processed foods rose nearly 6 percentage points during a recent 20-year period, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

It’s tempting to picture life in the country as being all about clean air, fresh food, outdoor activities and abundant good health.

The first week in August is World Breastfeeding Week, a time to emphasize the importance of creating “breastfeeding-friendly environments for mothers and babies,” according to WHO.

A new poll suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated the obesity epidemic in the United States.

Most American Board of Medical Specialties member boards do not have official lactation-specific examination accommodation policies for female physicians, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A high maternal pre-pregnancy BMI increases the risk of offspring developing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to findings presented at the 2021 International Liver Congress

Boston Children’s Hospital was named Tuesday as the best children’s hospital in the United States for the eighth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report, which expanded its annual list this year to include state and regional rankings.

From May 2020 to September 2020, nearly one-third of parents who were surveyed reported that their children gained weight, but researchers did not find any “clear patterns” in home food environment changes.

Finding that protein-energy wasting was prevalent in children with kidney disease, researchers outlined what they deemed to be the “most useful” methods for making accurate diagnoses of the condition in this patient population.

In terms of short-term weight gain, preterm formula powder fortifiers were noninferior to human milk fortifiers in a study of around 120 preterm very-low-birth-weight neonates in India, researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics showed.