Effect of restriction on children’s intake differ by child temperament, food reinforcement, and parent’s chronic use of restriction

Rollins,B.Y., Loken,E., Savage,J.S. and Birch,L.L., (2014) Appetite 73:31-39


Objective: To examine pre-school children’s behavioural response to parental restriction of foods, and to identify characteristics of the children who respond more negatively to restriction.
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Relationship of food addiction to weight loss and attrition during obesity treatment

Lent,M.R., Eichen,D.M., Goldbacher,E., Wadden,T.A. and Foster,G.D.,. (2014) Obesity (Silver Spring) 22:52-55

Objective: To prospectively examine the relationship between baseline ‘food addiction’ status & symptom count and weight & attrition outcomes in a large sample participating in behavioural weight loss interventions.
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Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study

Basu,S., Vellakkal,S., Agrawal,S., Stuckler,D., Popkin,B. and Ebrahim,S., (2014) PLoS Med. 11:e1001582

Objective: To estimate the potential health effects of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in India (a middle-income country).
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Limitations of observational evidence: implications for evidence-based dietary recommendations

Maki,K.C., Slavin,J.L., Rains,T.M. and Kris-Etherton,P.M. (2014) Adv.Nutr. 5:7-15

Objective: To highlight some of the limitations of observational evidence for diet-disease relations, and advocate for greater caution in the communication of dietary recommendations for which RCT evidence of clinical event reduction after dietary intervention is not available.
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