INTRODUCTION As rates of childhood obesity rise, the nutritional content of lunches eaten at school is more heavily scrutinized. We examined the association between dietary behaviors and the number of days that adolescents bring lunch to school. METHODS We analyzed cross-sectional data for 2,774 adolescents who responded to the 2005 California Health Interview Survey and reported dietary beha...

abstract background and purpose: priority health-risk behaviors, often are established during childhood and adolescence, extend into adulthood, and are interrelated and preventable. this study was conducted to determine and compare the prevalence of risky behaviors on both sexes of freshman students enrolled in tehran university, iran. materials and methods: this study was a descriptive-analyti...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. Global statistics indicate increasing rates of this cancer. Nutrition, diet, and healthy behaviors are among influential factors in prevalence of breast cancer, and possibly affect its incidence through inflammatory and immune system responses. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to compare nutritional and unhealthy behaviors in ...

background: changes in lifestyle and eating habits have put women at risk of obesity and overweight more than ever. this aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pender’s health promotion model (hpm) to improve the nutritional behavior of overweight and obese women admitted to fatemiyeh hospital clinics in hamadan, west iran in 2015. methods: n this quasi-experimental study, 108 eligi...

Background: Current educational techniques may have a few effects on dietary habits and food preferences in adolescents, so by designing an educational attractive program, nutritional knowledge can be significantly enhanced. This study aims to investigate the effect of a structured educational intervention based on poetry, game, and problem-solving skills on promoting nutritional knowledge, and...

The aim of this study was to analyse health behavior, taking into account the following aspects: proper nutritional habits (PNH), preventive behaviors (PB), positive thinking (PT) and health practices (HP) in the light of general index of intensity of health behaviors (GIIHB) of pregnant women participating in antenatal classes in Szczecin. Juczyński’s (2001) Health Behavior (HBI) Inventory con...

Background: We sought to evaluate the effect of educational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) on nutritional behaviors in relation to the cardiovascular disease (CVD) among health volunteers. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, the participants included 128 active health volunteers. To conduct the study, 65 and 63 participants were randomly assigned into the inte...

7 Dr. Joe D. Wray, in his 1972 Tropical Pediatrics editorial, asked, “Can we learn from successful mothers?” His question had not previously appeared in a scientific journal, possibly because it may have embarrassed many professional scientific nutrition teachers to consider it seriously. Nutritional surveys often discover well-nourished children in poor families that inhabit villages where nea...

Background: Malnutrition is considered a complicated public health issue and depends on multiple factors. Hygienic behavior related to orphan children’s growth, nutritional outcomes, sound health. The study’s aim was assess the hygiene behaviors status of students in Bangladesh. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional quantitative study conducted three orphanage centers. total 120 respondents we...