Under 5 Energize: Tracking Progress of a Preschool Nutrition and Physical Activity Programme with Regional Measures of Body Size and Dental Health at Age of Four Years.

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Under 5 Energize: Tracking Progress of a Preschool Nutrition and Physical Activity Programme with Regional Measures of Body Size and Dental Health at Age of Four Years.

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To reduce weight gain and encourage healthy eating including reduced sugar intake, Under 5 Energize (U5E) was introduced to 121 early-childhood-centres in the Waikato region of New Zealand in July 2013. Using anonymized data collected from January 2013 to September 2016 through free physical assessments of all 4-year-olds provided by the NZ Ministry of Health, the prevalence of obesity and dental decay children measured in the Waikato region was examined. Data were divided into four periods r...

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2017-05

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Rush, Elaine / Obolonkin, Vladimir / Young, Leanne / Kirk, Madeleine / Tseng, Marilyn

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/65666

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Milk / Animals / Humans / Dental Caries / Obesity / Body Mass Index / Body Size / Exercise / Prevalence / Program Evaluation / Nutritional Status / Socioeconomic Factors / Child, Preschool / Oral Health / Health Promotion / New Zealand / Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Drinking Water / Nutritive Sweeteners / Diet, Healthy / dental decay / early childhood education centres / growth / indigenous children / nutrition / 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences / 4206 Public Health / 42 Health Sciences / 3210 Nutrition and Dietetics / Prevention / Clinical Research / Pediatric / Stroke / Cardiovascular / Metabolic and endocrine / Cancer / Oral and gastrointestinal / 0908 Food Sciences / 1111 Nutrition and Dietetics / 3202 Clinical sciences

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