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Community based interventions on healthy diets in and out of school: Two case studies on 'breakfast at school' and the involvement of Flemish city authorities Ghent University
Introduction: Screening of policy documents, academic literature on local politics and implementation theory leads us to conclude that city governments should engage in assuming a steering role in the community based interventions to prevent childhood obesity. So, we argue that the steering role of city authorities is a U+2018critical success factorU+2019 for the effectiveness of the interventions on the promotion of healthy diets. Methods: ...
PROTEIN AI Advisor: A Knowledge-Based Recommendation Framework Using Expert-Validated Meals for Healthy Diets KU Leuven
AI-based software applications for personalized nutrition have recently gained increasing attention to help users follow a healthy lifestyle. In this paper, we present a knowledge-based recommendation framework that exploits an explicit dataset of expert-validated meals to offer highly accurate diet plans spanning across ten user groups of both healthy subjects and participants with health conditions. The proposed advisor is built on a novel ...
Animal board invited review: Animal source foods in healthy, sustainable, and ethical diets – An argument against drastic limitation of livestock in the food system Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Animal source foods are evolutionarily appropriate foods for humans. It is therefore remarkable that they are now presented by some as unhealthy, unsustainable, and unethical, particularly in the urban West. The benefits of consuming them are nonetheless substantial, as they offer a wide spectrum of nutrients that are needed for cell and tissue development, function, and survival. They play a role in proper physical and cognitive development of ...