The home food environment can be conceptualized as overlapping interactive domains
composed of built and natural, sociocultural, political and economic, micro-level and macro …

Poor childhood diet is a major risk factor for disease and obesity, and parents of pre-school
children are in a powerful position to influence diet for life. The technique of thematic …

In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health
and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to …

Intensive handwashing promotion can reduce diarrheal and respiratory disease incidence.
To determine whether less intensive, more scalable interventions can improve health, we …

Introduction Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic in Western and in
developing countries and has been accompanied by many serious and severe …

There has been a meteoric rise over the past two decades in the medical research and
media coverage of the so‐called global childhood obesity epidemic. Recently, in response …

Background Recent literature has suggested that associations and interactions between
family socioeconomic status (SES) and home food environment influence children's diet, but …

The general consensus in the research to date is that family meals are linked to healthier
eating habits in children, compared to not eating with the family. Yet, few studies explore …

Epidemiological studies focusing on Latino immigrant health have found links between
acculturation (time and language competency), weight gain, and disease risk. Since time …

Despite recommended dietary guidelines, recent population surveys have recorded low fruit
and vegetable and high non-core food consumption by Australian children. Young children …