Natarajan Padmapriya

The 1st national survey of play in preschool-aged children in Britain has found that from the age of two, girls play outside in nature less than boys. The research was by researchers at @Cambridge_Uni & @UniofExeter and published in @JPAHjournal Read - buff.ly/3YbzNS3

In randomized clinical trials, gamified digital mental health interventions were effective in improving the severity of ADHD and depressive symptoms among children and adolescents but not for reducing the severity of anxiety symptoms. ja.ma/3ziNyX3

Participation in organized physical activity/sports, outdoor active play & reading time associated with favorable executive function & academic achievement in our new data, but indoor active play & screen time associated with unfavorable cognitive outcomes doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.…

🚨 We need your feedback! 🚨 Help shape the new Australian 24-hour movement guidelines for adults (18-64 years) and older adults (65+). Public consultation is now open! 🏃‍♀️💪 Have your say by 18 October 2024 consultations.health.gov.au/national-preve… #PhysicalActivity #HealthGuidelines #OlderAdults

Lower job control, a work-related stressor, may be associated with a longer time to pregnancy, pointing to the importance of improving working conditions as a means of improving worker health, including fertility doi.org/10.1016/j.fert…

Impacts of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep on depression symptoms in Canadian older adults 65 years of age and above: a compositional data analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging sedentarybehaviour.org/2024/03/11/imp…

New @IJBNPA publication on #Children #MovementBehaviors! @N_Priyaa #GUSTO Check this out 👉 ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Women trying to become pregnant are missing vital nutrients they & their babies need from modern diets, with the situation likely to worsen as more people turn to plant-based foods: our NiPPeR trial findings published today @PLOSMedicine @SouthamptonBRC doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Will Brisbane 2042 leave a lasting physical activity legacy? Join us for a fun & engaging debate - watch two teams battle it out & take part in deciding the winner! @ASPActivity @Olympics

Health before pregnancy has been overlooked compared with health in pregnancy & childbirth; our Obstet Gynecol editorial highlights using evidence in context-sensitive ways to improve the health & life chances of future generations @PreconceptionUK journals.lww.com/greenjournal/f…

Children who were moreare physically active have higher self-esteem & stronger friendships - our newly published Singapore GUSTO study findings used objective Actiwatch physical activity data @SouthamptonBRC @MRC_LEU @UoS_Medicine southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/post/active-ch…

doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2… Free to read until end October @KeithMGodfrey @J_Y_Bernard @N_Priyaa

Interventions to reduce sitting in pregnancy & to encourage higher intensity activity preconception may benefit the health of mothers & their children: our new analyses from preconception to childhood led by @KathrynHesketh @SouthamptonBRC @MRC_LEU doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2…

Our GUSTO study data just published in @PNASNews show that the intergenerational transmission of adversity may have a lasting impact on children’s mental health via alterations to gut microbiome functions @SouthamptonBRC pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Analyses in 600,000 children show higher sun intensity from birth to age 6 mths associates with reductions in childhood overweight & obesity, likely due to lasting effects of early infancy vitamin D status econpapers.repec.org/paper/hkawpape…; mirrors our SWS findings pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25646335/

A really exciting programme & an important part of reducing the transmission of disparities across generations!

The UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has also published its independent report on feeding young children aged 1 to 5 years - essential reading for all those involved in promoting children's health gov.uk/government/pub…

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

This recently accepted study found that MVPA and VPA decreased during #pregnancy and even after delivery did not return to preconception levels. Postpartum physical activity interventions can play a crucial role in addressing this. ✍️@J_Y_Bernard, @N_Priyaa, @PANDA_SPHSG et al.

@Jackbmeyer Congratulations! Use this opportunity to upgrade in to PhD. All the best!

After a brutal application cycle I am disappointed to say I was rejected from every PhD program I applied to, BUT the silver lining is that I will be accepting my offer from Oxford University to begin an MPhil in Economics this fall!