Overview
Project status: In progress
A follow up of a successful obesity prevention program commencing in infancy
The greatest nutritional risk for children in Australia over the last 20 years is not becoming underweight, as in past generations, but instead the risk of obesity - with up to one in four children currently overweight.
These children are much more likely to become overweight adults with increased risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Previous research has shown that child (and adult) eating habits may be established from as young as 6 months of age, when parents introduce solids to their children.
This project is a follow up to the successful obesity prevention study called NOURISH, which monitored nearly 700 mothers and their babies until age two. The project will allow the children to be followed up at 3.5 years as they move more into the outside world where their mother has less control over what they eat and at five years old, just as they start school.
- Grantor
- NHMRC
- Amount
- $820,558
- Research leader
- Research team
- QUT
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Faculty of Health Other units
- Research area
- Exercise, Nutrition and Metabolism
- Keywords
- obesity, NOURISH, obesity research, overweight, health research projects
Contact
- For more information contact Professor Lynne Daniels.
Professor Lynne Daniels
Professor Karen Thorpe
