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Advantages of gardening as a form of physical activity in an after-school program A study of the relationship between participation in a Cooperative Extension Service after school gardening program and the self-reported physical activity levels of children, based on data from 31 children in third through fifth grade in Oklahoma |
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Barney and breakfast: Messages about food and eating in preschool television shows and how they may impact the development of eating behaviours in children An exploration of messages about food and diet in preschool television programming, based on a visual analysis of two or more episodes each of 10 randomly selected television shows from a television network that targets children aged two through five years old in Canada |
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Changes in body mass index z score over the course of the academic year among children attending Head Start A study of changes in children's body mass index (BMI) over the course of enrollment in Head Start and examination of variations in BMI by gender, single-parent status, program year, race, age at initial enrollment, and family income divided by household size, from a secondary analysis of retrospective longitudinal growth of 1,914 children enrolled in a Michigan Head Start program over 2 academic years and the intervening summer |
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is served and what are their nutritional outcomes? An inquiry into whether the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) reaches its targeted population, and an examination of the relationship between the food intake, weight, and food security of CACFP participants, based on data on more than 10,000 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) |
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Child-care environment and dietary intake of 2- and 3-year-old children An exploration of the relationship between social and physical child care environment and the dietary intake of 135 2 and 3-year-old children in Dutch child care centers assessed by random observation at morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack over a period of 2 months in 2008 |
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Child care quality and children's cortisol in Basque Country and the Netherlands Cross-national comparisons of the relationship between children's cortisol levels in child care and at home as well as the relationship between quality of care and children's cortisol levels, in samples of 60 toddlers in child care centers in Spanish Basque Country and 25 children in care centers in the Netherlands |
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Child care setting affects salivary cortisol and antibody secretion in young children A study of the relationship of illness frequency to both cortisol levels and antibody secretions, measured several times throughout each day and both at home and at child care, in a sample of 65 children from upstate New York |
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Compliance with physical activity guidelines in preschool children A study of compliance with National Association for Sport and Physical Education guidelines and a comparison of the physical activity of boys and girls on weekends and weekdays, based on data from 245 young children aged 3.5- through 6-years-old, a subsample of the Preschool Physical Activity, Body Composition and Lifestyle Study (PRESTYLE) conducted in Porto, Portugal |
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Day care increases the risk of respiratory morbidity in Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity A study of the association between child care attendance and occurrence of respiratory illnesses in a sample of 111 children with Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity (CLDP) |
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Eating vegetables first: The use of portion size to increase vegetable intake in preschool children A study of the relationship between portion siize of vegetable servings at the start of lunch and both meal consumption and meal energy intake based on data collected from 51 3- through 5-year-olds in a child care center once a week for 4 weeks |
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Federal food policy and childhood obesity: A solution or part of the problem? An examination of the relationship betweeen changes in federal food program participation and low income young children's body mass index measurements |
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Food consumption and nutrient intake in day care and at home in 3-year-old Finnish children A study of the relationship between child care type and both the food consumption and the nutrient intake of children, based on data collected from a sample of 471 3-year-olds in two regions of Finland being cared for either at their homes, at center-based care, or at family child care homes |
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Investing in health: The long-term impact of Head Start on smoking An estimation of the relationship between Head Start participation and smoking behavior in young adulthood, based on 1999 and 2003 nationally representative data from a longitudinal study of 1,638 adults who attended Head Start, matched with siblings who did not |
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Is childcare associated with the risk of overweight and obesity in the early years?: Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study A study of the relationship between child care participation, the risk of being overweight or obese, and socioeconomic background, and a study of the relationship of infant feeding as a mediator between child care in infancy and overweight status at age 3 years, based on data from a cohort of 12,354 British 3-year-old children |
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Lunch Is In The Bag: Increasing fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in sack lunches of preschool-aged children A study of the effect of participation in Lunch Is In The Bag, a five week parent and teacher intervention, on the number of servings of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in children’s lunches, based on data from 132 parent-child dyads in 6 child care centers, with 3 randomly assigned to offer the intervention |
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Short- and long-term risk of infections as a function of group child care attendance: An 8-year population-based study A study of the relationships between type of child care and frequency of children's respiratory, ear, and gastrointestinal tract infections during early preschool, late preschool, and early elementary school, based on a representative sample of 1,238 participants in an eight year prospective cohort study of families with a newborn living in Quebec in 1998 |
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