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Title: Association between Health Literacy and Weight Management Behaviors among Individuals with Hypertension: Data from the Newest Vital Sign
Author: Saad, Aisling
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health education, Nutrition
Description: Health literacy and healthy weight management behaviors are important public health issues, especially among individuals with hypertension. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between health literacy and healthy weight managem...

Title: Navigating the Food Environment: Healthy Food Availability in SNAP-Authorized Drugstores in North Carolina
Author: Kennedy, Ashley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Public health, Nutrition
Description: The number of major drugstore chains (such as Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid) that accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in North Carolina as dramatically increased. From 2000 to 2015, the number of stores accepting SNAP i...

Title: Nutritive Knowledge Based Discovery: Enhancing Precision Nutrition Hypothesis Generation
Author: Trautman, Aaron
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Nutrition, Information science
Description: Diet-related diseases like obesity and type-2 diabetes are on the rise. Precision nutrition, a way to tailor dietary requirements for each individual, is heralded as a solution to these problems. However, nutritional research is held within sparse...

Title: PhytoRx: An Interdisciplinary Nutrition Learning Module
Author: Granillo, Cheryl
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Nutrition
Description: There is a long history of limited nutrition education in advanced healthcare curricula. This leaves healthcare providers unprepared to use nutrition to treat diagnoses that have been shown to respond to dietary intervention. A Mediterranean diet ...

Title: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MILK CONSUMPTION DURING CHILDHOOD AND PRECOCIOUS MENARCHE
Author: Choi, Younjung
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Epidemiology, Nutrition
Description: Menarche, the last stage of the normal pubertal development in girls, is one of the most significant events in a woman’s life as it signifies that a girl is capable of becoming pregnant from then on. Furthermore, menarche also means that a girl ha...

Title: The Association Between Caregiver Perception of Child Weight Status and Frequency of Fast Food Consumption in Children
Author: Butler, Candace
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Nutrition
Description: Childhood obesity is a persistent health issue in the United States. There has been an increase in the number of meals purchased away from home as the presence of fast food establishments has risen. Previous studies suggest that children who frequ...

Title: The Evaluation of an Educational Intervention on Food Label Literacy Among Parents of Children in an Outpatient Pediatric Clinic
Author: Okocha, Ifunanya
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education, Nutrition
Description: Childhood obesity has been on the rise for decades and its effects have a negative impact on the health, psychology of the people with significant economic cost to the society at large. Many risk factors have been attributed to obesity such as qua...

Title: Three Essays on Infant and Young Child Feeding and Child Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Epidemiology and Policy Analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public health, Nutrition
Description: Exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life and complementary breastfeeding up to 24 months is encouraged to ensure optimal infant and young child nutrition and health. The WHO and UNICEF emphasize these optimal Infant and Young Child ...