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ORIGINS reaches key milestoneORIGINS, a collaboration between The Kids and the Joondalup Health Campus, has achieved a major milestone – recruiting its 1000th family.
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Get cracking: Why eggs are a healthy choice for pregnant womenNot only are cooked eggs perfectly safe to eat during pregnancy, they are also a great way to boost nutrient intake for both mums and bubs.
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Exposure to non-core foods and beverages in the first year of life: Results from a cohort studyTo report the proportion of Australian infants who were introduced to non-core foods and beverages and to identify associated factors
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Spotlight on kids' menus shows almost all are unhealthyThe first Australian study to evaluate the nutritional content of Kids’ Menus at restaurants and cafés has found the overwhelming majority are unhealthy.
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Food environments and dietary intakes among adults: Does the type of spatial exposure measurement matter? A systematic reviewAvailability measures may produce significant and greater effect sizes than accessibility measures
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Can a simple dietary index derived from a sub-set of questionnaire items assess diet quality in a sample of australian adults?This study describes a method that was used to develop a simple index for ranking individuals according to their diet quality in a longitudinal study
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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the effect of folic acid supplementation beyond the first trimester on maternal plasma unmetabolised folic acid in late gestationTaking folic acid containing supplements prior to and during early pregnancy reduces the risk of neural tube defects. Neural tube defects occur prior to 28 days postconception, after which, there is no proven benefit of continuing to take folic acid. However, many women continue to take folic acid containing supplements throughout the pregnancy.
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Young people suggest anti-smoking style interventions for energy drinksResearchers conducted a series of group interviews with young people to find out how much they knew about energy drinks and the consequences of drinking them.
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Dietary intake in population-based adolescents: Support for a relationship between eating disorder symptoms, low fatty acid intake and depressive symptomsIn the eating disorder sample but not the control sample, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid correlated significantly and negatively with eating disorder...
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The western dietary pattern is prospectively associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adolescenceIn centrally obese adolescents with NAFLD, a healthy dietary pattern may be protective, whereas a Western dietary pattern may increase the risk.