On January 22-23, 1997, a workshop was held in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD), and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, WA). The purpose of the workshop was to provide a forum for the discussion of the interplay between diet, genes, and cancer risk. This is just part of the burgeo...

This paper updates a British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) Briefing Paper on this topic, published in 2011. Healthy eating and being physically active are particularly important for children and adolescents. This is because their nutrition and lifestyle influence their wellbeing, growth and development. There remains considerable room for improvement in the diets of British schoolchildren, accordi...

Angus x Hereford heifers (15 mo and artificially inseminated to a single sire) were used to evaluate the effect of prenatal nutritional restriction on postnatal growth and development. At d 32 of gestation, dams were stratified by BW and BCS and allotted to a low-nutrition [55% of NRC (1996) requirements, n = 10] or moderate-nutrition [100% of NRC (1996) requirements, n = 10] diet. After 83 d o...

OBJECTIVE Maternal nutrition knowledge has frequently been identified as an important target for nutrition promotion interventions. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether maternal nutrition knowledge is more strongly associated with the mother's own diet or that of her child. DESIGN Cross-sectional multivariate linear regression with interactions analyses of survey data. SE...