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NCCOR Resources for Students
November 2019, NCCOR
With the school year in full swing, NCCOR is excited to launch a brand new resource for students—the NCCOR Student Hub. The NCCOR Student Hub will highlight all the tools and resources that public health and other graduate students studying diet and physical activity can use to enhance coursework and research projects.
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United Fresh Start Foundation
Expires December 1, 2019
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National Institutes of Health
Expires December 13, 2019
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Expires December 13, 2019
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Open
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Transportation Research Board
December 11-12, 2019 I Washington DC
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Active Living Research
February 2-5, 2020 I Orlando, FL
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Society of Publication Health Education
March 17-20, 2020 I Atlanta, GA
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School meals help millions of kids grow up healthy
This new infographic from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows changes in school meals, such as that 99% of U.S. schools meet USDA’s healthier meals standards that took effect in 2012. Read More
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Report to Congress on CDC's Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration project
CDC's Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (CORD) project was an effort to implement effective interventions to reduce obesity among lower-income children (aged 2-12). Read More
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Added sugars intake among US infants and toddlers
During 2011 to 2016, 84.4% of infants and toddlers consumed added sugars on a given day. Read More
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Factors during pregnancy may affect early childhood weight
In a study published in Pediatric Obesity, a child's high and increasing body mass index between ages two and six years was strongly associated with pre-pregnancy obesity and overweight in the child's mother; modestly associated with maternal type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes that required medication, and excessive weight gain during pregnancy; and slightly associated with breastfeeding for six months or less. Read More
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Family eating behavior and child eating patterns differences between children with and without siblings
In this sample, children without siblings exhibited less healthy eating behaviors. Read More
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Study: A mother's warmth, sensitivity can mitigate obesity risk factors in infants
An ongoing longitudinal University at Buffalo study presented in Las Vegas at ObesityWeek is among the first to explore how mother-infant behaviors during feeding and active play (non-feeding situations) affect infants and children in families with low socioeconomic status. Read More
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Understanding childhood obesity in the US: the NIH environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) program
In 2016, the National Institutes of Health launched the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to investigate influences of environmental exposures on child health and development. Read More
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Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions
Obesity in children is associated with differences in brain structure in regions linked to cognitive control compared to the brains of children who are normal weight, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Read More
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