Melinda Ring, Elaine Cheung, Rupa Mahadevan, Stephanie Folkens, Neilé Edens
Cooking Up Health: A Novel Culinary Medicine and Service Learning Elective for Health Professional Students
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
school readiness multidimensional construct includes cognitive behavioural emotional aspects childs development school readiness strongly associated childs future school success wellbeing early development instrument edi reliable valid teachercompleted tool assessing school readiness children kindergarten age substantial knowledge gap exists understanding early child growth health behaviours nutrition cardiometabolic risk development impact school readiness primary objective determine growth patterns measured body mass index trajectories healthy children aged 05 years associated school readiness ages 46 years kindergarten age secondary objectives determine health trajectories including health behaviours nutrition cardiometabolic risk development associated school readiness ages 46 years paper presents fit school study protocol ongoing prospective cohort study parents children enrolled applied health research group kids target kids practicebased research network invited participate fit school study child growth health behaviours nutrition cardiometabolic risk development data collected annually health supervision visits linked edi data collected schools primary secondary analyses use twostage process 1 latent class growth models used first determine trajectory groups 2 generalised linear mixed models used examine relationship exposures edi results research ethics boards hospital sick children unity health toronto mcmaster university approved study research ethics approval obtained school board student participating study findings presented locally nationally internationally published peerreviewed journals nct01869530