13 results match your criteria: "School of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences[Affiliation]"

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  • Schools are important places to teach kids about healthy food and nutrition, which helps them grow well and learn useful cooking skills for life.
  • The study looked at research about how teachers feel and what helps them teach food and nutrition effectively in primary schools.
  • To make teachers better equipped to teach food and nutrition, a mix of strategies and support is needed, like better training and focus on teacher well-being.
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Objectives: Cultural food security is crucial for cultural health and, for people from refugee backgrounds, supports the settlement journey. Cultural communities are vital in facilitating access to cultural foods; however, it is not understood how refugee-background communities sustain cultural food security in the Australian context. This study aimed to explore key roles in refugee-background communities to understand why they were important and how they facilitate cultural food security.

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Food is intrinsically linked to culture, identity, and for people with lived refugee experiences, cultural foods are a critical part of settlement into a new country, which is often a time of high stress and dislocation from friends and family. However, cultural foods in settlement countries may be unavailable or inaccessible, adversely impacting on food security. This systematic review aimed to identify facilitators and barriers to accessing foods in high-income countries for people with lived refugee experiences.

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The Role of Household Structure and Composition in Influencing Complementary Feeding Practices in Ethiopia.

Nutrients

December 2021

Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.

While the household in which a child grows up is considered a critical environment that influences nutrition outcomes, there is little research examining the influence of household composition and structure on complementary feeding practices. This study examined the influence of household structure and composition on complementary feeding practices, using the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS), 2000 to 2016. The composition variables were calculated from the attributes of household members (alters) and the structure variables from their kinship status.

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Aim: Very low carbohydrate high fat diets (VLCHF) are increasingly popular for weight loss and diabetes management, but the risk implications of long-term adherence to a high-fat-diet remain unclear, especially in high-risk populations. This review aimed to examine adherence, weight loss, diabetes- and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related risk markers in adults consuming VLCHF diets.

Methods: Online databases were searched for randomised controlled trials ≥3 months duration that met a pre-defined macronutrient prescription: VLCHF ≤25%E carbohydrate, >35%E fat; low fat (LF) ≥45%E carbohydrate, ≤30%E fat; and reported energy, saturated fat (SFA), weight, blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure (BP).

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Background & Aims: Prolonged temporary tube feeding places pediatric patients at risk of tube dependency. This chart audit aimed to identify current temporary tube feeding practice within an Australian tertiary hospital, risk factors of prolonged temporary tube feeding, and the likelihood of high risk patients receiving tube dependency preventative practices.

Methods: A retrospective chart audit was conducted of the medical records of 187 pediatric inpatients who had temporary feeding tubes placed in an Australian tertiary hospital between November 2014 and March 2017.

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Adolescent women as a key target population for community nutrition education programs in Indonesia.

Asia Pac J Clin Nutr

May 2017

Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Background And Objectives: Adolescence is a critical life-stage that sets the foundation for health in adulthood. Adolescent women are a unique population and should be targeted as such for nutrition promotion activities. Using Indonesia as a case study, this qualitative study aimed to identify existing nutrition promotion programs aimed at adolescent girls, how best to target this population and effective recommendations to inform nutrition education program design for this important group.

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Postpartum IGF-I and IGFBP-2 levels are prospectively associated with the development of type 2 diabetes in women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus.

Diabetes Metab

December 2016

Mercy Perinatal Research Centre, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.

Aims: Women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. In the general population, the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system has been implicated in the development of type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine if circulating IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-2 levels 12weeks following a GDM pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

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Concurrent exercise incorporating high-intensity interval or continuous training modulates mTORC1 signaling and microRNA expression in human skeletal muscle.

Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol

June 2016

Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia; College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia; and

We compared the effects of concurrent exercise, incorporating either high-intensity interval training (HIT) or moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT), on mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) signaling and microRNA expression in skeletal muscle, relative to resistance exercise (RE) alone. Eight males (mean ± SD: age, 27 ± 4 yr; V̇o2 peak , 45.7 ± 9 ml·kg(-1)·min(-1)) performed three experimental trials in a randomized order: 1) RE (8 × 5 leg press repetitions at 80% 1-repetition maximum) performed alone and RE preceded by either 2) HIT cycling [10 × 2 min at 120% lactate threshold (LT); HIT + RE] or 3) work-matched MICT cycling (30 min at 80% LT; MICT + RE).

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Views of Women and Health Professionals on mHealth Lifestyle Interventions in Pregnancy: A Qualitative Investigation.

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

October 2015

Centre for Nutrition and Physical Activity Research, School of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia.

Background: Evidence suggests that women are failing to meet guidelines for nutrition, physical activity, and weight gain during pregnancy. Interventions to promote a healthy lifestyle in pregnancy demonstrate mixed results and many are time and resource intensive. mHealth-delivered interventions offer an opportunity to provide trusted source information in a timely and cost-effective manner.

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Effects of intermittent training on anaerobic performance and MCT transporters in athletes.

PLoS One

June 2015

School of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

This study examined the effects of intermittent hypoxic training (IHT) on skeletal muscle monocarboxylate lactate transporter (MCT) expression and anaerobic performance in trained athletes. Cyclists were assigned to two interventions, either normoxic (N; n = 8; 150 mmHg PIO2) or hypoxic (H; n = 10; ∼3000 m, 100 mmHg PIO2) over a three week training (5×1 h-1h30 x week(-1)) period. Prior to and after training, an incremental exercise test to exhaustion (EXT) was performed in normoxia together with a 2 min time trial (TT).

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The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of short-term sprint training on transient changes in monocarboxylate lactate transporter 1 (MCT1) and MCT4 protein and mRNA content. Seven moderately endurance-trained runners (mean +/- SE; age 27.7+/-2.

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