Nutrition News

March may be National Nutrition Month, but the way to obtain a healthy lifestyle through nutrition, or the determinants certain foods and drinks can cause, is the subject of research throughout the year.

SEATTLE — Researchers found that combining nutrition and sanitation interventions led to improved motor and cognitive development in children aged 2 years in rural Zimbabwe, according to study results presented at CROI.

Children who viewed images of social media influencers with unhealthy snacks were more likely to consume unhealthy food compared with children who viewed the same influencers with healthy foods, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

Children delivered by cesarean were more likely to have milk allergy and GERD, according to findings presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Clinicians did not consistently adhere to peanut allergy–related guidelines or conduct proper allergy screenings, according to three different abstracts presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting. 

Breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day — at least when it comes to losing weight — according to findings recently published in BMJ.

Exclusive breastfeeding in hospitals improved following the introduction of a protocol that delayed newborn baths for 12 or more hours after birth, according to research published in the Journal for Obstetrics, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing.

Companies selling fast food, candy, sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks frequently target black and Hispanic youth in their advertising efforts, according to a report issued by the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. Researchers wrote that $1.1 billion in advertising in black-targeted and Spanish-language TV was spent by these companies in 2017.

Supplements are described as a heterogenous group of products that are intended to supplement the diet. Supplements are not described as medicinal drugs or foods, although they are commonly used by consumers for a therapeutic effect (ie, to act as a drug).

A New Jersey law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, requiring all health insurers in the state to cover donated human breast milk for infants under certain circumstances. Insurers must cover the costs if the infant is aged younger than 6 months, the milk comes from a milk bank that meets the quality guidelines of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America or is licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health, and it is prescribed to the infant by a physician. Similar laws are in place in California, New York, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Washington, D.C.