Nutrition News

One third of low- and middle-income countries have overlapping forms of extreme malnutrition, particularly in south and east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific, according to a series of reports published in The Lancet.

In the United States, roughly one in five adolescents and one in four young adults have prediabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Most adolescents worldwide — including more girls than boys — fail to meet WHO physical activity guidelines, putting their health at risk, according to a study published in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

Rising temperatures, declining crop yields, air pollution and other adverse environmental outcomes of climate change pose a threat to the long-term health of children, according to The Lancet’s annual update on health and climate change.

Findings from two studies published recently in Pediatrics emphasized the negative impact that food insecurity has on child health and the role that policies and recommendations play in mitigating this impact.

Children aged younger than 8 years who did not have siblings were more likely to consume unhealthy foods and drinks than children of the same age group who had brothers and sisters, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

A published study found starting enteral tube feeding after 2 years of age improved height and weight standard deviation score in pre-pubertal children with CKD stages 2 to 5.

Ninety-five percent of all baby foods tested by Healthy Babies Bright Futures, an alliance of organizations aimed at reducing exposure to potentially hazardous chemicals during the first 1,000 days of life, contained at least one toxic chemical, including arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury, according to a new report published by the group.

Preterm and very low-birth-weight infants fed in faster and slower increments had comparable neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 24 months, according to findings from a randomized controlled trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The FDA’s Allergenic Products Advisory Committee recently voted in support of AR101, an investigational biologic oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy in children and teenagers, bringing it one step closer to approval.