Center Director Dr. Kimberly Chang says that the clinic is designed to help patients develop a network of support through health coaches who provide one-to-one lifestyle counseling and group visits where several patients come together to learn about topics such as nutrition, exercise, and chronic disease management from clinic staff.

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But they often remain in the NICU for months, where they can develop infections from intravenous lines delivering fluids and nutrition, or lung disease associated with ventilators getting air into their lungs.

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Authors Kelly Brownell of Yale and Dr. Jeffrey Koplan of Emory (and former Centers for Disease Control Director) launch a vigorous assault on the Nutrition Keys program and the food and beverage industries in general.

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"The investigators examined changes in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and then its association with change in body fatness or BMI (body mass index), and subsequent deaths from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, " says Rachel Johnson, professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington and chair of the American Heart Assocation's Nutrition Committee, who was not involved in the study.

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For example, using information on a patient's family history, daily nutrition and exercise habits, the app can determine his or her risk for heart disease.

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He shows that babies who were small at birth because of poor nutrition in the womb have an increased risk of heart disease, strokes, diabetes and hypertension.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) calls it a "double burden" of disease and says: "It is not uncommon to find under-nutrition and obesity existing side-by-side within the same country, the same community and the same household".

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Professor David Barker, director of the Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit highlighted the importance of nutrition and health for young women to ensure their children do not face the prospect of life-threatening and chronic disease.

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