Background: Rapid weight gain in infancy is associated with a higher risk of obesity in children and adults. A high relative reinforcing value of food is cross-sectionally related to obesity; lean children find nonfood alternatives more reinforcing than do overweight/obese children. However, to our knowledge, there is no research on how and when food reinforcement develops. Objective: This stud...

The article presents studies on the optimization of recipes and nutritional value national meat vegetable products enriched with products: cabbage, carrots pumpkin, for nutrition school children 7-11 years old. Using method mathematical modeling, a reference sample, blend was determined, formulation multicomponent protein-containing product optimized.The selection components used to select prom...

Abstract Background There is growing evidence that the ‘corporate political activity' (CPA) of food industry a major barrier to development and implementation public health policies promote healthy environments. The CPA, by targeting professionals, amongst others, could also consumption industrial foods, including ultra-processed ones, which known lead ill-health. purpose present study was map ...

Inorganic arsenic (Asi) is a chronic, non-threshold carcinogen. Rice and rice-based products can be the major source of Asi for many subpopulations. Baby rice, rice cereals and rice crackers are widely used to feed infants and young children. The Asi concentration in rice-based products may pose a health risk for infants and young children. Asi concentration was determined in rice-based product...

A method based on solid phase extraction and derivatization with acetic anhydride followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was validated for the determination of bisphenol A (BPA) in baby foods. The average method detection limit (MDL) was 0.18 ng/g for a 5 g sample. Method repeatability was demonstrated with the replicate analyses of various different types of baby foods; relative stan...