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Commercial baby foods available in the Portuguese marketplace and the applicati...
Santos, Mariana; Assunção, R.; Matias, F.; Castanheira, I.; Rito, A.; Loureiro, I.Background: Scientific evidence suggests that nutritional and metabolic exposure during critical periods of early human development (“the first 1000 days”) may have a long-term effect on health in adulthood. An investment in nutrition at the earliest possible stage, providing appropriate complementary feeding, is critical to ensuring growth and development and to prevent noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Food and...
Healthiness of Portuguese Ready to Eat Breakfast Cereals using three internatio...
Santos, Mariana; Matias, Filipa; Calhau, Maria Antónia; Rito, A.; Loureiro, IsabelIn Portugal according the most recent Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC) 90% of the boys and 91% of the girls aged 11 eat breakfast every weekday. Breakfast Cereals and Children's Cereals are included in the group of foods that contribute to the consumption of 30.7% of simple sugars, representing more than 10% of the energy intake in 15.4% of the national population. The nutritional quality o...
Teores de sódio e açúcar em alimentos, destinados a lactentes e crianças jovens...
Santos, Mariana; Matias, Filipa; Calhau, M.A.; Rito, A.; Loureiro, IsabelA alimentação desde o momento da conceção, ao longo da gravidez e nos primeiros dias de vida é considerada uma janela de oportunidades para a aquisição de hábitos alimentares saudáveis que poderão manter-se pela vida fora. A OMS recomenda que a amamentação seja exclusiva até aos 6 meses de idade, oferecendo inúmeros benefícios para o bebé e para a mãe. A alimentação complementar é essencial na transição de uma ...
Sodium and Potassium Intake from School Meals
Santos, Mariana; Nascimento, Ana C.; Santiago, S; Calhau, M.A.; Rito, A.; Loureiro, IsabelIntroduction: Children consume more than one-third of their daily food intake in schools, suggesting that these environments are ideal places for intervening on poor dietary behaviours. School meals play an important role in children’s diet especially for elementary school children aged from 6 to 9 years, to support normal growth, as well as the acquisition of taste and food preferences. Methodology: The purpos...
Eat Mediterranean: um programa para reduzir desigualdades nutricionais em refei...
Santos, Mariana; Dinis, Ana; Rito, A.Enquadramento do Projeto “Eat Mediterranean”: Intervenção comunitária para redução das desigualdades nutricionais em meio escolar de promoção da Dieta Mediterrânica; Pretendeu: - Constituir um modelo ecológico comunitário - Melhorar oferta alimentar - Reduzir desvios do Estado Nutricional nos alunos - Capacitar Comunidade Educativa e Profissionais de Saúde e Educação para a Dieta Mediterrânica; Estratégia de in...
The portuguese self-administered computerised 24-hour dietary recall
Carvalho, M. A.; Rito, A.; Pereira Miguel, JoséRationale: Measuring the diets of school-aged children is a challenging process. Technology offers the opportunity to automate more accurate methods of dietary assessment, making them less expensive, easier to use and an alternative to nutritionist interviews.
Development of a new computer program to assess dietary intake among Portuguese...
Carvalho, M.A.; Santos, O.; Rito, A.; Foster, E.; Moore, H.J.; Pereira Miguel, J.Introduction: Twenty-four-hour dietary recall is the method of choice for assessing food intake among school-age children. Because they require highly trained interviewers, recalls are expensive and impractical for large-scale nutrition research. A new method for assessing dietary intake in children is being developed: the Portuguese self-administered computerized 24-hour dietary recall (PAC24). Objectives: To ...
Validation of the Portuguese self-administered computerised 24-hour dietary rec...
Carvalho, M.A.; Baranowski, T.; Foster, E.; Santos, O.; Cardoso, B.; Rito, A.; Pereira Miguel, J.Background: Current methods for assessing children's dietary intake, such as interviewer-administered 24-h dietary recall (24-h DR), are time consuming and resource intensive. Self-administered instruments offer a low-cost diet assessment method for use with children. The present study assessed the validity of the Portuguese self-administered, computerised, 24-h DR (PAC24) against the observation of school lunc...
Economics of Chronic Diseases Protocol: Cost-effectiveness modelling and the fu...
Divajeva, D.; Marsh, T.; Logstrup, S.; Kestens, M.; Vemer, P.; Kriaucioniene, V.; Peresson, S.; O’Kelly, S.; Rito, A.; Webber, L.Background: The majority of chronic disease is caused by risk factors which are mostly preventable. Effective interventions to reduce these risks are known and proven to be applicable to a variety of settings. Chronic disease is generally developed long before the fatal outcome, meaning that a lot of people spend a number of years in poor health. Effective prevention measures can prolong lives of individuals an...
Validation of the portuguese self-administered computerised 24-hour dietary rec...
Carvalho, M. A.; Baranowski, T.; Foster, E.; Santos, Osvaldo; Cardoso, B.; Rito, A.; Pereira Miguel, JoséBackground: Current methods for assessing children’s dietary intake, such as interviewer-administered 24-h dietary recall (24-h DR), are time consuming and resource intensive. Self-administered instruments offer a low-cost diet assessment method for use with children. The present study assessed the validity of the Portuguese self-administered, computerised, 24-h DR (PAC24) against the observation of school lunc...