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Both Dietary Protein and Fat Increase Postprandial Glucose Excursions in Children With Type 1 DiabetesOur objective was to determine the separate and combined effects of high-protein (HP) and high-fat (HF) meals, with the same carbohydrate content, on...
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Food sources of saturated fat and the association with mortality: A meta-analysisThere is an ongoing need for improvement in assessment tools and methods that investigate food sources of saturated fat and mortality to inform dietary...
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Spective associations between sugar-sweetened beverage intakes and cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescentsIncreased SSB intake may be an important predictor of cardiometabolic risk in young people, independent of weight status.
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Just what the doctor ordered: moving forward with electronic health recordsTo provide dietitians with information on the proposed introduction of electronic medical records in Australia and New Zealand and discuss potential benefits...
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Maternal consumption of coffee and tea during pregnancy and risk of childhood ALL: Results from an Australian case-control studyThe objective of this study was to investigate whether maternal coffee and/or tea consumption during the last 6 months of pregnancy was associated with risk...
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Dietary glycaemic carbohydrate in relation to the metabolic syndrome in adolescents:High dietary glycaemic carbohydrate, as measured by the dietary glycaemic index and glycaemic load has been associated with increased risk of the metabolic synd
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Dietary intake and food sources of fatty acids in Australian adolescentsDietary fat consumed during childhood and adolescence may be related to the development of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in adulthood.
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The role of family and maternal factors in childhood obesityThe aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between a child's weight and a broad range of family and maternal factors.
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Researcher to plot evolving junk food landscape around every single school in PerthA The Kids Research Institute Australia researcher will map every food business and school in Perth to investigate the influence of the food environment on children’s food intake and health.
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Indigenous infants in remote Australia retain an ancestral gut microbiome despite encroaching Westernization
Studies of traditional Indigenous compared to 'Western' gut microbiomes are underrepresented, and lacking in young children, limiting knowledge of early-life microbiomes in different cultural contexts. Here we analyze the gut metagenomes of 50 Indigenous Australian infants (median age