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Paul Goldner
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I'm looking for information on children's diets, and long term impact on health, particularly about the impact junk food has on weight, diabetes, and other negative long term effects of children under, say, 12, eating chips, soda, candy, etc. Any help hatrack can offer would be greatly appreciated [Smile]
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Elmer's Glue
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I think genetics have more of an impact than diet.
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Starsnuffer
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Different, but kid-related: [html=http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/11/should_you_let_your_toddlerpre.php] Effect of violent tv [/html]

It's at least interesting, the blog as a whole is neat also.

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DDDaysh
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I don't have a link or anything, but there is a middle school in San Antonio that is participating in a study around how education can impact nutrition and bring down diabetes rates. I know that's not alot to go on, but it's what I have off the top of my head.
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Replaced your " html "s with " url "s to get "Different, but kid-related: Effect of violent tv"
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ClaudiaTherese
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What is your target audience? That determines everything.


Some basics:
American Academy of Pediatrics' links about nutrition
American Diabetes Association information for parents and kids
USDA general information on childhood obesity
USDA's pdf bibliography of other resources on childhood obesity

More technical:
RWJ Foundation link to policy briefs on research in childhood obesity
Radiology journal free full-text article on Diseases associated with childhood obesity [2007]
Canadian family medicine journal free full-text article on Preventing and managing pediatric obesity [2007]
pdf from Indian endocrinology journal free full-text article on Childhood diabetes mellitus: recent advances & future prospects [2007]
Endocrinology journal free full-text article on Childhood obesity [2005]***

***this last one is a very good international position statement, particularly good if you want the numbers on various related topics

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Older (but likely still useful) technical reviews:
AAP Committee on Nutrition's position statement on Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity (2003)
Pediatric free full-text on
Management of Child and Adolescent Obesity:
Summary and recommendations based on reports from pediatricians, pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and registered dietitians (2002)

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Also added: The journal articles all have bibliographies that might be of use to you in looking for other resources.

[ November 17, 2008, 08:31 AM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]

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Paul Goldner
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Thanks, Claudia. Tremendously useful [Smile]
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Moderation is the key word to almost everything human.

The impact of junk food is directly proportional to how much the person abuses it.

Good parenting is a major plus in decision making.

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Excellent. [Smile]
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Christine
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quote:
Originally posted by All4Nothing:
Moderation is the key word to almost everything human.

The impact of junk food is directly proportional to how much the person abuses it.

Good parenting is a major plus in decision making.

Absolutely!

We had a birthday party for my son on Saturday...we made a train out of cakes and candy. (Tracks made out of twizlers, ties out of long cookies, wheels out of fudge cookies, cargo of jelly beans, candy corn, orange slices...) Anyway, we loaded 4 kids between the ages of 1 and 3 (including our own) with enough sugar to send them spinning into their afternoon naps. Fun stuff.

We had salad for dinner. [Smile]

The biggest problem I have with parenting is that so many people don't understand moderation. You either have the McDonald's and twinkies diet or you have the low-fat and no fun diet. I want to raise children who enjoy eating a wide variety of foods rather than kids who either don't know how to eat or who are so obsessed with it that it becomes a disorder.

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romanylass
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quote:
Originally posted by Christine:

The biggest problem I have with parenting is that so many people don't understand moderation. You either have the McDonald's and twinkies diet or you have the low-fat and no fun diet. I want to raise children who enjoy eating a wide variety of foods rather than kids who either don't know how to eat or who are so obsessed with it that it becomes a disorder.

I agree with this so much.WE eat healthy meals, but we like sweets. We only eat "real food" sweets though, which I think is another big part of healthy nutrition.
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Also, Shan is a pediatric nutritionist.
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