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Press Release – University of Auckland
The first New Zealand study to look at the effects of food hardship on pre-schoolers’ nutrition has found that nearly half of families struggle to access healthy food in their child’s first year of life and this can have a negative downstream impact on children’s diets.
Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study.
Lead researcher, Dr Sarah Gerritsen, from the University of Auckland’s School of Population Health, says the aim was to investigate whether food hardship impacted young children’s nutrition.
Dr Sarah Gerritsen
“We discovered that food hardship was most prevalent when children were infants and this influenced the quality of nutrition children received, even once we accounted for differences in family circumstances, such as income and education,” Dr Gerritsen says.
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 6:08 am
The first New Zealand study to look at the effects of
food hardship on pre-schoolers’ nutrition has found that
nearly half of families struggle to access healthy food in
their child’s first year of life and this can have a
negative downstream impact on children’s diets.
Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal
study.
Lead researcher, Dr Sarah Gerritsen, from the
University of Auckland s School of Population Health, says
the aim was to investigate whether food hardship impacted
young children’s nutrition.
Dr
Sarah Gerritsen
“We discovered
that food hardship was most prevalent when children were
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