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The Impact Of Ww’S Multi-City Fvrx Program On Children, Damaris Lopez Mercado

Public Health Theses

Introduction and background: Higher F&V intake are associated with healthier BMI in children, but cost of F&V has been found to be a barrier to access for some families. To mitigate this barrier, Wholesome Wave (WW) implemented a six-month F&V incentive program that included a $25 weekly financial incentive for families to spend on F&V in three U.S. cities. The primary objectives of this paper are to assess whether this program significantly impacted child F&V consumption and child anthropometry from baseline to end-of-program and to assess whether F&V intake and food insecurity and end-of-program are significant predictors of healthy child …

Nut And Peanut Butter Consumption And Risk Of Prostate Cancer In The Nih-Aarp Diet And Health Study, Mimi (Trucmai) Nu Ton

Public Health Theses

Background: While nuts and their related nutrients have been inversely associated with some cancers, the association between nut consumption and prostate cancer has been inconsistent.

Methods: We conducted an analysis of the association between nut and peanut butter consumption and risk of incident prostate cancer among 173,243 men in the prospective NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. There was a total of 18,619 incident prostate cancer cases during the 16 years of follow-up. We calculated hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using Cox proportional hazards regression for intake of nuts, peanut butter, and total nuts (nuts plus peanut butter), …

Cross-Cultural Association Between Dietary Animal Protein And Hip Fracture: An Hypothesis, Benjamin Jac Abelow

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Age-adjusted female hip fracture incidence has been noted to be higher in industrialized countries than non-industrialized countries. A possible explanation which has received little attention is that elevated metabolic acid production associated with a high animal protein diet might lead to chronic bone buffering and bone dissolution. In an attempt to examine this hypothesis, cross-cultural variations in animal protein consumption and hip fracture incidence were studied. When female fracture rates derived from 34 published studies in 16 countries were regressed against estimates of dietary animal protein, a strong, positive association was found. This association could not plausibly be explained by …