APFNC

Asia Pacific Food and Nutrition

Collaboration

Behavioural Nutrition Newsletter

No 1 (1 July 2015)

News
Welcome to the inagural APFNC newsletter, we hope you find it an interesting and
useful tool in providing news and information in your relevant areas of behavioural
and nutritional science.
About us
The Asia Pacific Food and Nutrition Collaboration (APFNC) brings together Clinical
Nutritionists, Public Health Nutritionists, Behavioural Nutritionists and Community
Nutritionists from various universities and agencies in the Asia Pacific region for the
purpose of research collaboration and sharing knowledge about behavioural and
nutritional science topics.
Our aims

To support researchers in behavioural nutrition in the Region

To conduct regular surveys of food consumers dietary activities, food attitudes

& knowledge.

To establish collaborations with other universities and government

departments in the region.

To set up joint projects

To find joint funding from agencies

About this Newsletter

The newsletter hopes to bring to you the latest news, papers, surveys and studies in
various areas of behavioural nutrition, public health nutrition and nutrition
education.

Webinars

Is a calorie a calorie? Professor Richard Mattes

NSA-Perth group and Nutrition Australia WA Division held a special May seminar
featuring Richard Mattes, a Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at Purdue University,
USA. Professor Mattes research focuses on hunger and satiety, regulation of food
intake in humans, food preferences, human cephalic phase taste and responses, and
taste and smell. The seminar recording has been made available to APFNC members
courtesy of Nutrition Society of Australia (NSA).

Recent papers and publications

Maternal and infant nutrition:
Markets, breastfeeding and trade in mothers
milk.
Julie P Smith
Abstract
This introduction to a special issue on the economics of
breastfeeding draws attention to the lack of economic justice for women. Human
milk is being bought and sold. Commodifying and marketing human milk and
breastfeeding risk reinforcing social and gender economic inequities. How can we
improve on the present situation where everyone except the woman who donates
her milk benefits?

Food purchase behaviour & marketing:

So Many Brands and Varieties to Choose
from: Does This Compromise the Control of
Food Intake in Humans? Charlotte A.
Hardman et al
Abstract
The recent rise in obesity is widely attributed to changes in the dietary environment
(e.g., increased availability of energy-dense foods and larger portion sizes).
However, a critical feature of our obesogenic environment may have been
overlooked - the dramatic increase in dietary variability (the tendency for specific
mass-produced foods to be available in numerous varieties that differ in energy
content).

Food literacy, education and communication:

Teaching approaches and strategies that promote healthy eating in
primary school children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Dean Dudley et al
Abstract
Healthy eating by primary school-aged children is important for good health and
development. Schools can play an important role in the education and promotion of
healthy eating among children. The aim of this review was to: 1) perform a
systematic review of randomised controlled, quasi-experimental and cluster
controlled trials examining the school-based teaching interventions that improve the
eating habits of primary school children; and 2) perform a meta-analysis to
determine the effect of those interventions.

Perceived healthiness of food and beverages:

Nutrition labelling, marketing techniques, nutrition claims and health
claims on chip and biscuit packages from sixteen countries.
Alexandra Mayhew et al
Abstract
Food packages were objectively assessed to explore differences in nutrition labelling,
selected
promotional marketing techniques and health and nutrition claims between
countries, in comparison to
national regulations.

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Useful links to external nutritional newsletters
News from
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