Dr Seema Mihrshahi has been appointed as the Heinz Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Public Health at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The H.J. Heinz Company Australia Limited is providing sponorship for this position for 4 years to support research in early childhood feeding at QUT, including the Nourish Study.
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The Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging has released Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Guidelines for children attending childcare centres, family day care and preschools. The Guidelines are part of the federal governments initiative to tackle childhood overweight and obesity by ensuring young children have a healthy start to life. There are 10 Healthy Eating Guidelines which contain information on healthy foods to serve, mealtime settings and times, portion control, and food safety and 5 Physical Activity Recommendations for ages 0-5 years.
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The Australian Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents (1) in line with the World Health Organisation, recommend that infants be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life. Despite this recommendation, indications are that few mothers exclusively breastfeed for this length of time. A recent study has compared the health and development outcomes of children at age 6.5 years, who were either exclusively breastfed for 3 months or 6 months (2).
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