Child and Youth Nutrition

Pathway Contributor: Kay Gibbons

Credentials:
FDAA

Bio:
Kay is an experienced dietitian with expertise across paediatrics, including early eating behaviours, child growth and childhood obesity. Her research has focused on those areas in clinical and primary care settings. With experience as a manager of an integrated nutrition & food service department she has interest in food services and has taught in this area of dietetic training, She currently holds a part-time chair in Food & Nutrition, focusing on food service. Currently she is the Chair of the Australian Dietetic Council.

Contributions:

• What interventions can help reduce children’s energy consumption from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs)?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the short- and long-term physical and mental health effects of high added sugar consumption in children and adolescents (≤18 years old)?  

  Role: Reviewer

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