Nutrients 2nd Webinar | Dietary Patterns, Dietary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents

Dietary behaviours develop from early stages of life. Dietary patterns start to be established during childhood. Early interventions should be able to positively influence the development of healthy dietary patterns. In order to design intervention programs, the first step is to know what the main determinants of dietary behaviours and dietary patterns in children and adolescents are. Several strategies have been proposed to deal with optimal behaviour development. Of recent interest are the support of food literacy in families and co-creation strategies to improve energy balance-related behaviours. All the previously mentioned topics will be covered during the present webinar.

Date: 5 July 2021

Time: 3 p.m. (CEST)

Webinar ID: 917 5682 3262

Program

Speaker/Presentation	Time in CEST
Prof. Dr. Luis A. Moreno Chair Introduction	3:00–3:10 pm
Dr. Antje Hebestreit Determinants of Dietary Patterns and Dietary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents	3:10–3:35 pm
Dr. Jess Haines Strategies to Support Food Literacy Among Families	3:35–4:00 pm
Prof. Dr. Mai Chin A Paw Co-Creating Interventions to Improve Energy Balance Behaviours	4:00–4:25 pm
Q&A and Discussion	4:25–4:45 pm
Conclusion & Closing of Webinar Prof. Dr. Luis A. Moreno	4:45–5:00 pm

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Luis A. Moreno

"Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development" (GENUD) Research Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Luis A. Moreno is Professor of Public Health at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He did his training as Medical Doctor and his PhD thesis at the University of Zaragoza. He studied Human Nutrition and Public and Community Health at the University of Nancy (France). He has participated in several research projects supported by the Spanish Ministry of Health, and the European commission (HELENA, IDEFICS, EURRECCA, ENERGY, ToyBox, iFamily, Feel4Diabetes, GrowH! And DigiCare4You). He has published more than 700 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is the coordinator of the GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) research group, at the University of Zaragoza. He is a former member of the ESPGHAN Committee of Nutrition and former President of the Spanish Nutrition Society.

Speakers:

Dr. Antje Hebestreit

Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS GmbH, Germany

Dr. Antje Hebestreit is head of the Unit Lifestyle-Related Disorders at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, in Bremen, Germany. After her PhD in Nutritional Sciences and Home Economics, and further training in epidemiology, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Harvard University and as a consultant for the UN World Food Programme. Over the years, her work has focused on studying the role of dietary intake, dietary behaviour, and their determinants in the development of non-communicable diseases, as well as primary prevention strategies for childhood obesity.

Dr. Jess Haines

Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Canada

Jess Haines is a dietitian and a Professor of Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph in Canada. Dr. Haines’ research aims to bridge epidemiologic research on the determinants of health behaviours with the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to support children’s healthy eating and growth. Dr. Haines is the Co-Director of the Guelph Family Health Study, a longitudinal family-based cohort, and the Director of the Parent–Child Feeding Laboratory, which focuses on identifying how parent–child feeding interactions influence children’s eating behaviours.

Prof. Dr. Mai Chin A Paw

Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mai Chin A Paw dreams of a world where children grow up healthy and happy. Such a world provides plenty of opportunities for active play, inspiring education, and nutritious and delicious foods. Mai is fascinated by why we do what we do and how this affects health, with a particular interest in youth. As university chair of the Child and Adolescent Public Health research section of Amsterdam University Medical Center, she combines her scientific expertise in human movement science and epidemiology to unravel working mechanisms using innovative methodologies, exploring unique intervention strategies and creatively combining multiple disciplines. Mai is the current president of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity until June 2021. Growing up in a multicultural family, she learned to observe the world from various perspectives, enjoy diversity, believe in serendipity and search beyond the expected. This sculpted her unique scientific frame of mind.

For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to nutrients.webinar@mdpi.com.