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- 2Bell, Rhonda (Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
- 1Bell, R (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Bell, Rhonda (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Bell, Rhonda (Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
- 1Bell, Rhonda C. (Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
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Maternal Iron and Vitamin D Status During and After Pregnancy and Their Relationships With Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence From the APrON Cohort Study
DownloadSpring 2023
Background: Investigations that assess how maternal iron or vitamin D status biomarkers change across pregnancy and postpartum, and their relationships with maternal and offspring outcomes, in cohorts of healthy pregnant individuals from high-income countries are limited. Recent reports suggest...
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Effect of Consuming Dairy Fats on Obesity-Related Cardiometabolic Perturbations and Immune Function in Low Birthweight Swine
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Although dairy intake has been shown to have a neutral or some beneficial effect on major cardiometabolic risk factors, the impact of dairy, and especially dairy fat, on immune function remains to be investigated. To understand the effect of consuming dairy fat on cardiometabolic risk factors and...
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Profiling the Bacterial and Fungal Gut Microbiome of Children with and without Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS)
DownloadFall 2020
Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease that has a large array of direct (e.g. altered metabolic and inflammatory profile) and indirect (e.g. mental health concerns etc.) consequences on health and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is the most...
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Body Composition Assessment in Pediatric Obesity: Reliability, Validity, and Clinical Applications
DownloadFall 2020
Adipose tissue and skeletal muscle have unique metabolic roles. Despite body mass index for age and sex (BMI z-score) being historically widely used to evaluate and monitor health status in children with obesity, it does not depict adiposity and muscularity (or their changes) during growth or...
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Spring 2020
Low socioeconomic status can negatively affect many aspects of a healthy pregnancy, including women’s ability to access and consume healthy foods. Food insecurity, defined as “inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraints,” has well-known effects on women’s health and...
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Fall 2019
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Abnormal levels of circulating lipids (dyslipidemia) is a well-known risk factor for CVD. Traditionally, fasting lipids, inclusive of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and total cholesterol (TC), have...
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Maternal Essential Fatty Acid Status During Pregnancy and Postpartum in the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) Study and Infant Outcomes
DownloadSpring 2017
Docosahexaenoic (DHA) and arachidonic (AA) acids are essential fatty acids found in breast milk and are important for the infant’s brain development and cognitive functions such as those that regulate sleep and crying. The overall goal of this research was to use a large maternal infant cohort,...
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The Effectiveness of Client-Centered Conversations to Promote Healthy Diets, Physical Activity, and Guideline Concordant Gestational Weight Gain in Pregnant Mothers: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
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Background: To promote healthy gestational weight gain, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends healthcare providers regularly weigh every pregnant woman, and follow with a discussion about gestational weight gain recommendations and healthy lifestyles. Research suggests that healthcare...
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Vitamin D Status and Markers of Cardiometabolic and Liver Disease Risk in Childhood Obesity
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Vitamin D insufficiency is highly prevalent in children (up to 40%), particularly in northern climates such as Alberta, due to reduced sunlight exposure and low intake. Although suboptimal vitamin D status and metabolic dysregulation are commonly observed in obesity, little is known about the...
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High fructose intake during pregnancy adversely affects insulin resistance, lipid profiles, and affects placental gene expression of nutrient transporters and angiogenesis in rat dams and their pregnant offspring
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Fructose intake has increased over the past several decades due to high consumption of sugary foods and drinks. In non-pregnant humans and animals, high fructose intake results in hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance and weight gain, although its effects on metabolic adaptations to pregnancy and on...