Optimal Thermal Control with Sufficient Nutrition May Reduce the Incidence of Neonatal Jaundice by Preventing Body-Weight Loss Among Non-Low Birth Weight Infants Not Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Background: Neonatal jaundice is strongly attributable to excess body-weight loss as a result of insufficient calorific intake.

Objectives: To examine the incidence of neonatal jaundice (defined by use of phototherapy) and body-weight loss, as well as their association, among neonates under optimal thermal control with sufficient nutrition, a local protocol for temperature and nutritional regulation.

Methods: We retrospectively identified a cohort of 10,544 neonates (birth weight ≥2,500 g) placed in thermo-controlled incubators for 2 h immediately after birth.

Factors associated with irregular breakfast consumption among high school students in a Japanese community.

Background And Objectives: This study evaluated the associations between the characteristics of high school students and irregular breakfast consumption and explored the association with knowledge regarding diet and dietary education in a community in Japan.

Methods And Study Design: A cross-sectional survey using a self-administered questionnaire was conducted in 2007 among all the high school students in the second grade in Imari, Saga. Data for 318 male and 292 female students were analyzed.