Nutrition News

A family-based, holistic approach to improving nutrition and increasing physical activity among children promoted positive self-perception, which may have decreased the burden of depression, anxiety and low self-esteem many obese youth face, according to data published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

The FDA has unveiled updated Nutrition Facts labelling for packaged foods, according to a press release.

Although the gluten-free diet is a critical treatment for celiac disease, consumers without celiac disease purchase the majority of gluten-free products, and many place their children on the diet without adequate knowledge of how it may impact them. According to a recent commentary published in the Journal of Pediatrics, health care providers should play a greater role in educating patients on how the current “gluten-free fad” may negatively impact their children.

Recent findings published in JAMA Pediatrics suggested that consuming artificial sweeteners during pregnancy may increase infant BMI.

Recent findings published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that eating rice cereal and other rice products can contribute to an infant’s arsenic exposure.

Mechanical fat load of truncal adiposity, metabolic dysregulation and inflammation, and the relationships between them may influence the pathophysiology of obesity-related asthma, according to a recent review of the literature published in Pediatrics.

School-based obesity interventions that included school nurses resulted in positive BMI outcomes for students, according to recent research in the Journal of School Health.

Schools with policies that limited exposure to sugar-sweetened beverages and associated marketing had lower rates of daily student consumption of regular soda, according to recent data.

Policy changes that mandated higher nutritional quality for a federal food program helped to improve the diets of children participating in the program, according to recent research in Pediatrics.

While fast food and full-service restaurants improved the availability of lower calorie children’s meals, many still failed to meet recommendations for fat, saturated fat and sodium content, according to research in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.