Tagged With "Barbados Nutrition Study"

Update on the Eastern Caribbean situation: La Soufriere volcano erupted again on Saturday 10th April and persons are being evacuated to other islands nearby. The ash plumes have blanketed the airspace in the vicinity of St Vincent and Barbados to its east and flights have been cancelled by Caribbean Airlines. Visibility in many parts of Barbados is poor as ash from the erupted volcano in Saint Vincent covers the island, particularly to the north. For a video taken at noon today please see...

Sunday morning update. Volcano is erupting every 1.5 to 3 hours 😟 Please continue to pray for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Barbados. 🙏

Happy Friday everybody! As you know, with that comes some weekend reading for you. Today, we are sharing a report from research conducted in Barbados that links childhood malnutrition and maltreatment to personality disorders which persist into adulthood. It is the work of Rebecca S. Hock and her colleagues using data from the 47 year longitudinal Barbados Nutrition Study. Published in Psychiatry Research (Volume 269, November 2018, Pages 301-308), the work, " Childhood malnutrition and...

Hi everyone. Can you believe that we are at the end of July this weekend? Time is flying! For this Food for Thought Friday we have a study titled " Profiles and behavioral consequences of child abuse among adolescent girls and boys from Barbados and Grenada " by Agata Debowska, Daniel Boduszek, Nicole Sherretts, Dominic Willmott, and Adele D. Jones of the University of Sheffield and University of Huddersfield. It is published in Child Abuse & Neglect, (Volume 79, May 2018, Pages 245-258)...