Alexis C. Wood, Ph.D., chair of the writing group for the American Heart Association Scientific Statement: Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Young Children (May 2020) is assistant professor at UDSA Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation P805 
copyright American Heart Association 2020

"When I look at this study and consistently across the literature, the biggest thing you can do to help maintain a healthy weight status for yourself, and that's highly correlated with cardiometabolic parameters, is to maintain energy balance. That is to consume the same calories in, as you burn. If you feel the need to lose weight and to improve your cardiometabolic parameters that way, you need to intake less energy than you expend, and that's your food and your exercise equation."