Background: Early life may be a “critical period” when appetite and regulation of energy
balance are programmed, with lifelong consequences for obesity risk. Insight into the …

Background Rates of childhood obesity are increasing globally, with poor dietary quality an
important contributory factor. Evaluation of longitudinal diet quality across early life could …

Background Previous product placement trials in supermarkets are limited in scope and
outcome data collected. This study assessed the effects on store-level sales, household …

Background The relationships between eating habits, behaviours, and the development of
obesity in preschool children is not well established. Objective As children of mothers with …

Background: Poor diet quality in early childhood is inconsistently linked to obesity risk.
Understanding may be limited by the use of cross-sectional data and the use of body mass …

Background: Maternal hyperglycemia in pregnancy is associated with greater adiposity in
offspring. The glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) describe the glycemic response to …

The practices mothers adopt in relation to feeding their children have been identified as
important predictors of children's quality of diet. However, most studies of the impact of these …

Objective: Little is known about the diet quality of preschool children in Canada. We adapted
an established diet quality index for European preschool children to align with the Canadian …

Background Previous studies have shown that maternal grand multiparity may predict an
increased risk of mental disorders in young adult offspring, but whether such effects persist …

Many studies have shown that shorter sleep duration in childhood is associated with higher
body mass index (BMI), and have proposed that it is due to an effect of sleep on adiposity …