Moving Beyond Research to Public Health Practice: Spread And Scale of Interventions that Support Healthy Childhood Growth.

Equitable access to affordable, effective, and safe obesity prevention and treatment remains a problem for many children and families in the U.S. In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its first Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for pediatric obesity evaluation and treatment, aiding the field's awareness of effective approaches.

Sensory quality of beef with different ultimate pH values - A Brazilian perspective.

This study evaluated Brazilian consumer perceptions of beef with different pH values at 48 h post-mortem (pHu) through sensory analysis. A total of 138 consumers evaluated raw and grilled steaks. The steaks were divided according to their pHu (normal pH < 5.

The environmental impacts of different organic rice management in Italy considering different productive scenarios.

Rice cultivation has a key role in food security worldwide; on the other hand, it has a high potential impact on the environment and human health, mainly due to the extensive pesticides use and greenhouse gas emissions caused by flooded cultivation. In Italy, the rice sector based mainly on high-input monoculture. The transition toward organic agriculture can improve the environmental performance of rice farming according to the actual European sustainable food production strategy.

The sense of body-ownership gates cross-modal improvement of tactile extinction in brain-damaged patients.

When body ownership is impaired after brain-damage, the capacity to discriminate between one's own and others' body-parts is lost. Delusional body-ownership has been recently described in patients who misidentify someone else's limb as their own (pathological embodiment) whenever it is positioned in a body congruent position. This delusion can be frequently associated with somatosensory and attentional deficits.

Ten Years of Breastfeeding Progress: The Role and Contributions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Our Partners.

For most infants, there is no better source of nutrition than breast milk. Breastfeeding is more than a lifestyle choice; it is an investment in the health of mothers and babies. Over the past 10 years, efforts from multiple sectors have contributed to significant increases in breastfeeding initiation and duration.