Nutritional status and related factors in elderly nursing home residents: comparative cross-sectional study in migrants and native Germans.

Former guest workers in Germany who stayed on after retirement are now older than 70 years. Nursing homes (NH) are broadening their offer to meet specific requirements of this population. The nutritional status and related problems of the older ethnic minority group living in German NH has so far not been investigated.

Maternal perceptions of her child's body weight in infancy and early childhood and their relation to body weight status at age 7.

Introduction: Maternal perception of her child's weight status has been hypothesised to affect a child's weight development.

Objective: The aim of this analysis was to determine in how far the maternal weight perception of her child's weight at different ages is related to its future body weight status.

Materials And Methods: Longitudinal data on body weight, height and skinfolds from the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed Study were used to determine the risk of being overweight at age 7.