Promoting Healthy Growth or Feeding Obesity? The Need for Evidence-Based Oversight of Infant Nutritional Supplement Claims
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Promoting Healthy Growth: The Use and Claims of Liquid-Based Nutritional Supplements
3. The Importance of Initial Conditions: Smallness
4. Growth and Health
5. The Scientific Rationale for the Claims: The Nature of the Evidence
6. Kids: Sample Specifics
7. Proof: Intervention Causality
8. Outcome: The Evidence and the Claims
9. Assessing “Healthy” Growth Structure Function Claims
9.1. The Use and Misuse of Growth Charts
9.2. The Construction and Perpetuation of “Healthy” Growth Structure/Function Claims
9.3. Providing Informational Health Material
10. Marketing Health
The Emergence of Infant Health Foods
11. Sociocultural Implications of Liquid-Based Nutritional Supplements
12. Feeding Obesity
12.1. Nutritional Content and Consumption Patterns
12.2. Consequences for Weight Gain
12.3. Feeding the Obesity Epidemic
13. Oversight Challenges
14. Overview and Next Steps
15. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Lampl, M.; Mummert, A.; Schoen, M. Promoting Healthy Growth or Feeding Obesity? The Need for Evidence-Based Oversight of Infant Nutritional Supplement Claims. Healthcare 2016, 4, 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare4040084
Lampl M, Mummert A, Schoen M. Promoting Healthy Growth or Feeding Obesity? The Need for Evidence-Based Oversight of Infant Nutritional Supplement Claims. Healthcare. 2016; 4(4):84. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare4040084
Chicago/Turabian StyleLampl, Michelle, Amanda Mummert, and Meriah Schoen. 2016. "Promoting Healthy Growth or Feeding Obesity? The Need for Evidence-Based Oversight of Infant Nutritional Supplement Claims" Healthcare 4, no. 4: 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare4040084