Self-optimising Decision Support Tool for Healthy Eating in Kids

英国和其他国家幼儿的饮食并不理想，特别是因为他们没有足够的水果和蔬菜。儿童早期养成的饮食习惯一直持续到成年，因此对我们的饮食行为起着持久的作用。30%的2至15岁的儿童超重或肥胖(DoH)，患2型糖尿病、心脏病和某些癌症的风险更高。在英国，近300万儿童超重，其中150万儿童实际上肥胖。2009年，有3860名儿童因肥胖相关疾病入院，而2000年这一数字为872人(增长了4倍)。与超重或肥胖相关的健康问题每年花费NHS超过50亿GB(占NHS总预算的5%-6%)。为了应对这一挑战，美食达人(FD)开发了全力以赴计划，这是一个基于最先进的健康科学、认知神经科学、营养科学和行为心理学的肥胖预防/健康饮食计划。在爱尔兰的所有小学(50多万儿童)和英国的150,000多名儿童中，都已经成功地参与了这项名为“美食兄弟”的活动。在此之后，美食达人找到了一个开发自我优化决策支持工具的机会，使该计划能够提供量身定制的建议，随着从证据基础收集更多数据而自我优化。

Diets of young children in the UK and other countries are not ideal, in particular because theycontain not enough fruit and vegetables. Food habits developed in early childhood persist inadulthood, thus playing a long lasting role on our eating behaviours. 30% of children between2 and 15 are overweight or obese (DoH) with a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes, heartdisease and certain cancers. In the UK, nearly 3 million children are overweight and 1.5million of these are actually obese. In 2009, there were 3,860 children admitted to hospital forobesity-related conditions, compared with 872 in 2000 (4-fold rise). Health problemsassociated with being overweight or obese cost the NHS more than £5 billion every year (5-6% of total NHS budget). To address this challenge, Food Dudes (FD) have developed theFull Force Programme, an Obesity Prevention/Healthy Eating programme based on state ofthe art health sciences, cognitive neuroscience, nutritional science and behaviouralpsychology. Food Dudes Programme has already been successfully taken up by all primaryschools in Ireland (more than half million children) and in the UK by more than 150,000children. Following this, Food Dudes have identified an opportunity to develop a selfoptimisingdecision support tool to enable the programme to provide tailored advice that selfoptimiseas more data is collected from the evidence base.