Eileen Kennedy

ORCID: 0000-0003-0509-9284
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Research Areas
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Tufts University
2015-2024

University College London
2018

New Balance (United States)
2016

Cleveland Clinic
2009-2012

Montreal Children's Hospital
2008-2011

McGill University
2009-2011

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
1995-2009

United States Department of Agriculture
1982-2009

McGill University Health Centre
2008

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
2007

10.1016/s0002-8223(95)00300-2 article EN Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1995-10-01

Cardiovascular Health-Dietary Recommendations for Fatty Acids: Is There Ample Evidence?" held on June 5-6, 2000, in Reston, Va.The conference was to summarize the current understanding of effects fatty acids risk cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer, as well identify gaps our knowledge base that need be addressed.There is great interest learning more about biological individual acids, their role chronic risk, underlying mechanisms action.As research advances are made, there always...

10.1161/01.cir.103.7.1034 article EN Circulation 2001-02-20

10.1016/s0002-8223(00)00225-x article EN Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2000-07-01

Objective: This article looks at the food group choices by individuals grouped based on fat intake, saturated and use of lowfat foods.Methods: Food consumption data from USDA's National Consumption Surveys (NFCS) Continuing Survey Intakes Individuals (CSFII) were used to look changes in mean energy, percent calories saturated-fat total-fat intakes over time. 1995 CSFII evaluate diets low-fat foods. six 50 years old who had complete intake records included five age-gender classifications...

10.1080/07315724.1999.10718853 article EN Journal of the American College of Nutrition 1999-06-01

10.1016/s0002-8223(96)00072-7 article EN Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1996-03-01

This article compares household income level and pre‐schooler weight‐for‐age across groupings that are differentiated by female headship variables which reflective of the heterogeneity female‐headed households. Data from Kenya indicate it is interaction at low‐income levels promotes nutritional status. For Ghana, incomes have to be quite large (in upper tercile distribution) before a reduction in child's likelihood having low achieved through further increases. We argue an absence...

10.1080/00220389408422332 article EN The Journal of Development Studies 1994-04-01

Rationale: Cerebral palsy (CP) constitutes a substantial portion of paediatric rehabilitation, yet little is known regarding actual occupational therapy (OT) and physical (PT) practices. This study describes OT PT practices for young children with CP in Quebec, Canada.

10.1080/17518420701544230 article EN Developmental Neurorehabilitation 2008-01-01

Abstract Data from the 2007–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) suggested that nearly half of U.S. adults aged 20 to 69 reported taking at least one dietary supplement in past month. Logistic regression showed following factors were independently associated with a greater likelihood use: being female, older, white, having higher level education, non-SNAP participation, living food-secure household. To compare nutrient intakes between users non-supplement users,...

10.1080/03670244.2012.706000 article EN Ecology of Food and Nutrition 2013-01-01

Food systems lie squarely at the intersection of several overarching goals UN and member states, as embodied in Sustainable Development Goals, including eliminating poverty, hunger, malnutrition all its forms, achieving good health well-being, while promoting environmental sustainability. The need for radical transformation current food is inescapable if world to achieve one, let alone all, these goals. Meeting this challenge will inevitably be disruptive systems, carry costs, politically...

10.1093/cdn/nzaa177 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Current Developments in Nutrition 2020-12-05

Intravenous fat preparations are used in the nutrition of those requiring parenteral alimentation. Although is recognized as a limited substitute for oral alimentation, and should be short time possible, widespread use has resulted some adverse effects. Fat highest caloric density any nutrient. In addition, intravenously infused emulsions exert negligible osmotic Thus, number years, possibility providing calories by intravenous administration been an attractive one. fact, one first attempts...

10.1542/peds.68.5.738 article EN PEDIATRICS 1981-11-01
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