Life-course approach to nutrition

Nutrition and its contribution to obesity and diabetes: a life-course approach to disease prevention?

Whilst previously type 2 diabetes occurred in older adults, its incidence, together with obesity, has increased rapidly in children. An improved understanding of this disease pathway from a developmental view point is critical. It is likely that subtle changes in dietary patterns over an extended period of time contribute to diabetes, although this type of rationale is largely ignored in animal...

A life course approach to diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases.

OBJECTIVE To briefly review the current understanding of the aetiology and prevention of chronic diseases using a life course approach, demonstrating the life-long influences on the development of disease. DESIGN A computer search of the relevant literature was done using Medline-'life cycle' and 'nutrition' and reviewing the articles for relevance in addressing the above objective. Articles ...

A life-course approach to fertility

BACKGROUND The life-course approach as a methodological framework for the empirical analysis of longitudinal individual-level data has fundamentally changed the agenda of demographic research. However, these methodological innovations have not been paralleled by a similarly successful theoretical integration in the life-course field. OBJECTIVE We aim to show that the life course is an indispens...

A Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing.

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...