ISPUP researchers awarded by The Portuguese Association of Nutrition

Researchers of the Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP) won five prizes at the XVIII Congress of Food and Nutrition, organized by the Portuguese Association of Nutrition, which took place on May 16^th and 17^th, in Porto. Researchers received the first, second and third prizes for best oral communication and the first and second best poster awards.

The first prize for best oral communication was awarded to Catarina Barbosa, a student of the Master of Public Health, for a study that sought to analyse the effect of parental child-feeding practices at four years-old, in dietary patterns identified at seven years-old, that could then explain obesity at 10.

The study entitled May parental child-feeding practices at 4 years-old prospectively influence dietary patterns of 7 years-old children that explain body mass index later in life? used data from Generation XXI and concluded that girls whose parents use monitoring strategies to control their feeding at age four are less likely to follow a food standard rich in energy-rich foods, processed meats, and poor vegetable soup at age seven.

According to the coordinator of the study, Andreia Oliveira, “we found that the monitoring of the children’s eating habits can be positive to prevent them from adopting unhealthy eating behaviors later. Moreover, the fact that this association has only been found in girls may show that, from a social point of view, there may be more pressure from parents to control the feeding of girls”.

The second prize for best oral communication was given to the research Modification of Effect Between Air Pollution and Lung Function by the Inflammatory Potential of Diet: Accross sectional study in children, in which researchers from ISPUP participated. The study looked at whether food could shape the effect of exposure to indoor air particles and the development of asthma in children.

Still in the  oral communications section, the researcher Vânia Magalhães won the third prize for best communication for the work called Dietary intake misreport and its association with specific food groups, in which the under- and over-declared food groups by adults in the The National Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey were identified.

Regarding poster awards, the first prize was awarded to the researcher Cláudia Afonso, for the work Obesity Phenotypes and their Association with Frailty and Frailty Criteria and the second prize went to the researcher Andreia Vaz for the study Association between nighttime sleep duration and dietary patterns among 4 year-old children from the birth cohort Generation XXI, which sought to analyze the relationship between sleep and eating patterns of the children of Generation XXI, at four years.

Several of the award-winning researchers belong to the Epidemiology Research Unit (EPIUnit) of ISPUP.

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