Objective: Obesity prevention in childhood is important. However, changing children's lifestyle
behaviors to reduce overweight is a substantial challenge. Accurately perceiving oneself …

Aim University and college students in wealthy countries may be vulnerable to financial food
insecurity. If food insecure students have suboptimal health, their ability to learn and excel …

Purpose: School-based interventions may increase children's preferences for vegetables
and fruit (V&F). This Canadian study measured changes in Indigenous First Nations …

Purpose: To describe the food security status, food insecurity coping strategies, characteristics,
and experiences of student clients of the Campus Food Bank (CFB) at the University of …

Background While school-based health prevention programmes are effective in addressing
unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, little is known about their economic implications. We …

Objective To determine the association between physical activity (PA) intensities and
cardiometabolic risk factors in youth. Design Cross-sectional study using data from the 2008 …

Little is known about the effectiveness of school-based health promotion on physical activity
inequalities among children from low-income areas. This study compared the two-year …

Background Despite growing evidence that supports the importance of 6-month exclusive
breastfeeding, few Canadian mothers adhere to this, and early weaning onto solids is a …

The epidemic rise in the prevalence of obesity and in particular, paediatric obesity has led to
concerns that the complications of excess adiposity may well reverse the favourable trends …

Objective This paper sought to examine which pre- and post-migration factors might be
associated with changes in refugees’ health status. Methods Using linear regression, the …