Sentences with phrase «identify child weight»

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It's a smart feeding tray, capable of identifying the food you serve your child — and mapping out how much of it your child ought to eat, based on age and weight.

The system can also spot damaged packs, and uses weight estimation to identify missing packs or items, for example missing toys in the children packs.

Child marriage and teenage pregnancy have been identified as some of the causes of increasing maternal deaths, infant mortality, under - weight and mal - nourishment in children the Brong - Ahafo Region and Ghana as a whole.

«Babies born big more likely to become obese as children, study finds: By identifying at - risk infants early, doctors could work with parents to prevent weight gain.»

«Although parents» perception that their children are overweight has been presumed to be important to management of childhood obesity, recent studies have suggested the opposite; when a parent identifies a child as being overweight, that child is at increased risk of future weight gain,» psychology researchers Eric Robinson (University of Liverpool) and Angelina Sutin (Florida State University College of Medicine) write in their paper.

The findings indicate that children whose parents identified them as being overweight perceived their own body size more negatively and were more likely to attempt to lose weight, factors that partly accounted for their weight gain.

«Our research shows that parents are more likely to identify children who are a healthy weight as underweight.

No weight is given to actual ability — every «gifted» child that has been identified is considered equal.

Given the significant impact that psychosocial risk factors seem to have on outcomes in weight management treatment, identifying and addressing parent mental health concerns, child behavior concerns, and family social resource needs upfront may help improve outcomes in children with obesity.»

When we identify and manage overweight problems and childhood obesity early, it gives children a better chance of avoiding long - term weight problems that can lead to serious consequences for their health and wellbeing.

The purpose of this study was to assess whether maternal emotion responses mediate the association between maternal binge eating (BE) and child feeding practices, in order to identify potential risk factors for feeding practices that influence child weight.

We aimed to identify positive parenting practices that set children on differential weight - trajectories.

Weighted - average correlation coefficients between equivalent pairs of SDQ and Child Behavior Checklist subscales11 from 9 parent - reported studies were uniformly strong and positive (range: 0.52 < r < 0.71).10 Several studies showed strong correlations between SDQ subscales and «real world» outcomes such as clinical diagnoses (criterion validity); SDQ scores identified school - aged children with concurrent behavioral and emotional disorders, including attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder / Asperger syndrome (ASD / AS), and predicted their occurrence 3 years later.4, 12,13 However, multitrait - multimethod analyses have not provided consistently strong evidence of discriminant validity of the school - age SDQ subscales.

A second goal of this study was to identify associations between household food security status, food assistance program participation, and child weight status.

Concern for child weight has been identified previously as increasing parental restrictive feeding [42 — 44, 59].