Pilot quality improvement intervention did not create sustainable change and did not improve eating or physical activity behaviors in WIC mothers
In African American enrolled in WIC, there was no relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and maternal control over physical activity or child eating behaviors. Findings also revealed moderate to high levels of maternal control among WIC participants who breastfed for 3 months.
In an evaluation of the Arizona Empower Program, participating facilities, majority completed partial implementation with most sites conducting staff training and only 44% reporting full implementation of a breastfeeding friendly environment.
Among low-income postpartum women, an internet-based weight loss program plus the WIC program compared with the WIC program alone resulted in significantly greater weight loss over 12 months.
This review has highlighted significant gaps in our mechanistic understanding of the relative importance of different aspects of parent and child behaviours in disadvantaged population groups.
Family sense of coherence was significantly associated with practicing healthy child behaviors. We did not find a statistically significant association between family sense of coherence and limiting unhealthy child behaviors or child BMI z-scores in fully adjusted models.
The article discusses gestational weight gain (GWG) in Mexican American women in Los Angeles, California; efforts to prevent excessive GWG; and tables showing biological, sociocultural, and behavioral characteristics by GWG
This pilot study documents the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a behavioral weight-loss intervention in postpartum, urban-based African American women with perinatal obesity. Study participants favorably received the intervention
Natural selection was iatrogenically rendered artificial selection, and the frequency of obese, inactive, metabolically compromised phenotypes increased in the global population. By the late 20th century, a metabolic tipping point was reached at which the postprandial insulin response was so intense, the relative number of adipocytes so large, and inactivity so pervasive that the competitive dominance of adipocytes in the sequestering of nutrient energy was inevitable and obesity was unavoidable.
