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Exploring Parental and Instructor Perspectives of Learning in the Natural Environment for Young Children: A Qualitative Study
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Background: Nature-based or outdoor experiences have important implications for childhood learning and development. Nature-based learning (NBL) utilizes the benefits of nature by weaving the goals of the school curriculum into the natural environment (Larimore, 2016). A paucity in the NBL...
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2012
Steele, Michael A., Fisher, Rebecca E., Karrow, Niel A.
Adverse uterine environments experienced during fetal development can alter the projected growth pattern of various organs and systems of the body, leaving the offspring at an increased risk of metabolic disease. The thrifty phenotype hypothesis has been demonstrated as an alteration to the...
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Food choices and practices during pregnancy of immigrant women with high-risk pregnancies in Canada: a pilot study
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Higginbottom, Gina, Barolia, Rubina, Forgeron, Joan, Mamede, Fabiana, Vallianatos, Helen, Gibbons, Donna
Background Immigrant women may be regarded as a vulnerable population with respect to access and navigation of maternity care services. They may encounter difficulties when accessing culturally safe and appropriate maternity care, which may be further exacerbated by language difficulties and...
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Gestational weight gain, physical activity, and nutrition counselling practices of prenatal health care providers: What influences practice?
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Appropriate gestational weight gain is important for maternal and child health. Data from a recent Alberta cohort showed 49% of pregnant women gained weight in excess of Health Canada guidelines. Regional studies have shown low rates of gestational weight gain counselling by health care...
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Glutamate Levels in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex of Healthy Women during Pregnancy and the Postpartum
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The substantial female hormone fluctuations associated with pregnancy and the postpartum have been linked to a greater risk of developing depressive symptoms. Glutamate (Glu) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of major depression. The objective of this thesis was to investigate MPFC Glu...
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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...
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2011-01-01
Rowe, David A., Tudor-Locke, Catrine, Hatano, Yoshiro, Schmidt, Michael D., Gardner, Andrew W., Croteau, Karen A., Ewald, Ben, Craig, Cora L., Rogers, Laura Q., Lutes, Lesley D., Bell, Rhonda C., Aoyagi, Yukitoshi, Ramirez-Marrero, Farah A., Tully, Mark A., Matsudo, Sandra M., Blair, Steven N., De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Older adults and special populations (living with disability and/or chronic illness that may limit mobility and/or physical endurance) can benefit from practicing a more physically active lifestyle, typically by increasing ambulatory activity. Step counting devices (accelerometers and pedometers)...
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Influence of gender roles and rising food prices on poor, pregnant women's eating and food provisioning practices in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rashid, Sabina F., Willows, Noreen, Mumtaz, Zubia, Levay, Adrienne V.
Background Maternal malnutrition in Bangladesh is a persistent health issue and is the product of a number of complex factors, including adherence to food 'taboos’ and a patriarchal gender order that limits women’s mobility and decision-making. The recent global food price crisis is also...
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Investigation of antibody-mediated immune mechanisms during submicroscopic infections of pregnancy-associated malaria in pregnant women from Colombia
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Malaria has been a threat to humans for centuries and continues to be a global health problem. Repeated exposure to malaria in childhood can result in protective immunity that reduces parasite invasion of red blood cells and the sequestration of infected red blood cells (iRBC) in the tissues....
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Let’s not Sugar-Coat it: Exploring Differences of Sugar Consumption Behaviours During Pregnancy Through Focused Ethnography
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Excessive sugar consumption may adversely affect maternal and fetal health. This study explored influences on women’s sugar consumption behaviours during pregnancy using focused ethnography. Fifteen pregnant women were interviewed and qualitative content analysis was used to inductively derive...