The affordability of food and eating habits, both of which can be affected by the family’s socioeconomic status, are important factors in determining the body weight of rural children 2 . It is most important to know what the children eat, and clarifying “eating at home and at school” from Montgomery-Reagan et al.’s preliminary report seems important. Even more important, however, is the discor...

Objective Worksite interventions can serve as a potential platform for translating existing knowledge of diabetes prevention and facilitate healthy food choices. The study explored perceptions about healthy eating as well as potential facilitators and barriers to healthy eating among employees in a wire manufacturing factory in Nepal. Methods and materials We conducted a cross-sectional explo...

It is the position of The American Dietetic Association that the school and community have a shared responsibility to provide all students with access to high-quality foods and nutrition services as an integral part of the total education program. Educational goals, including the nutrition goals of the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, should be supported and exten...

Modified eating habits during the month of Ramadan and the significant increase in food intake after breaking the fast can unbalance the metabolism of patients with diabetes (1–3). Evidence-based guidelines for food intake during Ramadan do not exist. A study was planned to observe the association between different dietary patterns and glycemic control and compliance to dietary advice among fas...

Food choices are extremely personal and no one has a right to dictate others in this matter. Although I was raised a strict vegetarian in India, I have given up extreme vegetarianism. This short essay discusses some moral and practical issues. The arguments are placed in separate paragraphs so that a reader who disagrees with me can refer to speci c points of disagreements. Since the context fo...

quate intake of thiamine or consumption of food containing anti-thiamine factors (ATF). As sociation with other pathologic conditions such as alcoholism or liver diseases has also been reported (1). In Thailand, thiamine deficiency is reported that high in the northern and northeastern provinces (2). By determining the thiamine pyrophosphate effect (TPPE), in 21.6% of ill northern Thai subjects...

OBJECTIVE To describe the eating habits of breastfed and non-breastfed children through the analysis of food intake by children younger than one year of age in Feira de Santana in 2001. METHODS Cross-sectional study. The mothers of children younger than one year answered a questionnaire during the national vaccination day in 44 (71%) vaccination units selected by simple stratification. 2,319 ...

AIM to study the association between the dietary habits and behavioural factors with the increased risk of obesity amongst adolescents in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). METHOD A cross-sectional study was carried out among 661 adolescents (324 boys and 337 girls) aged 12 to 17 years selected by means of a multistage stratified random sampling technique. RESULTS The highest percentage of ...

The eating habits of the Brazilian population have been changing in recent decades and publicity is one of the factors contributing to this situation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the content of food publicity broadcast on television and addressed to children, from the standpoint of regulation. The publicity broadcast on the two major television stations during the school holiday...

A dietary survey was performed during a large screening study in Sweden among 13-year-old adolescents. The aim was to study how the intake of food groups was affected by a screening-detected diagnosis of coeliac disease (CD) and its gluten-free (GF) treatment. Food intake was reported using a FFQ, and intake reported by the adolescents who were diagnosed with CD was compared with the intake of ...