Reducing maternal and child mortality was established as a global priority with the signing of the Millennium Declaration in September 2000. Neonatal vitamin A supplementation and very early breastfeeding initiation are ...

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the US. Although many risk factors for breast cancer are known, few are modifiable and little is known about ways to ...

Recent discussions in the literature have suggested that reducing the consumption of foods with high associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and impacts on global water resources, such as meat and dairy foods, and replacing ...

Background: Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Identifying modifiable factors and preventative strategies to mitigate the cardiovascular effect of PM2.5 is essential ...

Background: Food marketing has been implicated as a driver of obesity. However, few studies have examined point-of-purchase marketing in supermarkets and restaurants, or marketing in lower-income countries. Furthermore, ...

The home nutrition environment and the consumer nutrition environment present two important settings for addressing the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adults. They provide the broader context ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of irreversible blindness in older Americans. There has been a long standing interest in the role of diet in the development of AMD. As early as the first ...

In Chapters 1 and 2, we examined two key components of heathy dietary patterns, specific types of dietary fat and consumption of fruit and vegetables, in relation to total and cause-specific mortality in two prospective ...

Consumption of restaurant foods, including fast-foods and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), has contributed to the rising global prevalence of obesity and related diseases among children and adolescents. The World Health ...

Background: Extreme characteristics of the Mongolian food supply and diet are associated with severe nutritional risks. Understanding these risks is relevant to the study of global chronic disease, but this understanding ...