The Influence of Parents’ Nutritional Education Program on Their Infants’ Metabolic Health

Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic in both developing and developed countries. Children obesity plays a vital role in children’s development and has a profound impact on their health in adult life. Although the etiology of obesity is multifactorial, it can be prevented. According to researc...

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Autores principales: Woźniak, Dagmara, Podgórski, Tomasz, Dobrzyńska, Małgorzata, Przysławski, Juliusz, Drzymała, Sylwia, Drzymała-Czyż, Sławomira
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9268789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35807852
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14132671
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author Woźniak, Dagmara
Podgórski, Tomasz
Dobrzyńska, Małgorzata
Przysławski, Juliusz
Drzymała, Sylwia
Drzymała-Czyż, Sławomira
author_facet Woźniak, Dagmara
Podgórski, Tomasz
Dobrzyńska, Małgorzata
Przysławski, Juliusz
Drzymała, Sylwia
Drzymała-Czyż, Sławomira
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description Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic in both developing and developed countries. Children obesity plays a vital role in children’s development and has a profound impact on their health in adult life. Although the etiology of obesity is multifactorial, it can be prevented. According to research, feeding practices, developing eating habits, and parenting styles are of primary importance. Despite the widespread access to information on children’s nutrition, parents still make many mistakes preparing their meals. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the impact of parents’ nutritional education on children’s selected anthropometric-metabolic parameters during their first year of life. The study comprised a group of parents of 203 Polish infants. Their parents were randomly assigned to one of two groups: the intervention group received intensive mobile nutritional education for a year, while the control group received no intervention. Blood tests and anthropometric measures were performed on both groups at the beginning of the study and one year later. Our study showed that parental nutritional education influences, among others. the BMI Z-score (the difference between the groups was 1.039) and the TG/HDL ratio (p < 0.001) in children. The final results of our study showed that proper nutritional education could improve children’s nutritional status at the population level.
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spelling pubmed-92687892022-07-09 The Influence of Parents’ Nutritional Education Program on Their Infants’ Metabolic Health Woźniak, Dagmara Podgórski, Tomasz Dobrzyńska, Małgorzata Przysławski, Juliusz Drzymała, Sylwia Drzymała-Czyż, Sławomira Nutrients Article Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic in both developing and developed countries. Children obesity plays a vital role in children’s development and has a profound impact on their health in adult life. Although the etiology of obesity is multifactorial, it can be prevented. According to research, feeding practices, developing eating habits, and parenting styles are of primary importance. Despite the widespread access to information on children’s nutrition, parents still make many mistakes preparing their meals. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the impact of parents’ nutritional education on children’s selected anthropometric-metabolic parameters during their first year of life. The study comprised a group of parents of 203 Polish infants. Their parents were randomly assigned to one of two groups: the intervention group received intensive mobile nutritional education for a year, while the control group received no intervention. Blood tests and anthropometric measures were performed on both groups at the beginning of the study and one year later. Our study showed that parental nutritional education influences, among others. the BMI Z-score (the difference between the groups was 1.039) and the TG/HDL ratio (p < 0.001) in children. The final results of our study showed that proper nutritional education could improve children’s nutritional status at the population level. MDPI 2022-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9268789/ /pubmed/35807852 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14132671 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Drzymała, Sylwia
Drzymała-Czyż, Sławomira
The Influence of Parents’ Nutritional Education Program on Their Infants’ Metabolic Health
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9268789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35807852
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14132671
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