Nutrition News

The content of school lunches packed at home were heavily influenced by the child’s desires rather than the parent’s choice, with reports of concerns about price and anxieties about whether their lunch was eaten, according to findings from the United Kingdom published in the Journal of Nutritional Education and Behavior.

Food and nonalcoholic beverage sponsorships featured in televised sports broadcasts make up 18.8% of all sponsorships of these athletic organizations, with over 75% of foods demonstrating poor nutritional scores and over 50% of beverages sweetened with sugar.

Higher waist circumference in early childhood and higher adiposity measures from early to mid-childhood correlated with higher alanine aminotransferase levels in mid-childhood, according to a recently published study.

Despite confirmed attempts to exclusively breast-feed their children, mothers who experience food insecurity are less likely to sustain this practice by 4 months.

Children who experience a persistent allergy to cow’s milk are more likely to have a lower weight and height than children with peanut and tree nut allergies, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Higher early childhood intake of vitamin E correlated with a lower risk for elevated mid-childhood alanine aminotransferase levels, according to recently published data.

Hispanic adolescents assigned to 16 weeks of supplementation with a commercial probiotic formulation experienced an increase in total adiposity, total fat mass, trunk fat mass and trunk adiposity compared with those assigned to placebo, according to findings published in Pediatric Obesity.

Despite previous reports of a decline in childhood obesity, new study data suggest there is no decline in obesity in children aged 2 to 19 years, and prevalence of severe obesity in children aged 2 to 5 years has actually increased.

A school intervention program did not have a significant impact on BMI or preventing childhood obesity, according to recently published study results.

Preterm neonates who received higher nutritional intake and enteral feeding primarily with breast milk during the first 2 weeks of life were more likely to have greater brain growth, according to recently published study results in Pediatrics.