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High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain.
Recent research suggests that fetal exposure to increased maternal body mass index (BMI) during pregnancy may be associated with psychopathology later in life.
Many studies of compulsory community treatment have assessed their effect early on after the implementation of legislation.
There are strong socioeconomic and psychosocial gradients in both current smoking and smoking cessation.
These data suggest that the link between maternal hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and child behavioral development begins in the first year of life.
Maternal antenatal exposure to life stress events has differing effects on the school performance of male and female offspring.
Exposure to elevated maternal pre-pregnancy BMI is associated with increased levels of internalizing and externalizing problems throughout childhood and...
This study examined the association between typical parental work hours (including nonemployed parents) and children's behavior in two-parent heterosexual...
Public health weight-loss interventions seem to be based on an outdated understanding of the science.
This paper reports on Aboriginal parents’ perceptions about their involvement in a Western Australian pilot initiative called KindiLink. The program seeks to support parents as their child’s first teacher and thereby enhance Aboriginal children’s early-years development, while strengthening relationships between families and schools. A constructivist paradigm was used to inform the methodology which placed Aboriginal voices at the centre of the research.