BACKGROUND Dietary restriction during infancy may influence later eating behaviour. The aim of this study was to determine whether consuming a cows' milk exclusion (CME) diet during infancy affects eating habits in later childhood, once cows' milk has been reintroduced into the diet. METHODS Children were recruited from two large birth cohort studies in the UK. A small number of participants ...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle and dietary pattern in adolescence and young adulthood not only affect the general state of health in these years, but also leave long-term effects. Due to the importance of diet in youth, this systematic review summarized observational studies representing dietary intakes among Iranian adolescents and young adults. METHODS PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases were...

background: overweight and obesity increasing world wide because of changing life style and dietary habits. diet therapy plays an important role to prevent obesity outcomes. the aim of this study was determining the effects of diet therapy on weight reduction and fitness. methods: a clinical trial study was conducted using convenient sampling method and 216 subjects (190 female and 26 male) wer...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that patients suffering from depression are more likely to adversely change their eating habits (eg. through increases in appetite, comfort eating and compulsive eating), which may result in an abnormal nutritional status. OBJECTIVES To evaluate selected dietary habits, such as the number and type of meals consumed during a normal day and comparing dieta...

The role of diet quality and physical activity in reducing the progression of chronic disease is becoming increasingly important. Dietary Quality Indices or Indicators (DQIs) are algorithms aiming to evaluate the overall diet and categorize individuals according to the extent to which their eating behaviour is "healthy". Predefined indexes assess dietary patterns based on current nutrition know...

BACKGROUND Adults and children in Mediterranean countries are believed to consume a Mediterranean-type diet which is higher in monounsaturated and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids than compared to central and northern parts of Europe and has preventive effects for cardiovascular risks. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In preschool children from Porto, Portugal (n = 35) and Munich, Germany (n = 18) we dete...

Several studies suggest that dietary habits are associated with poor academic performance. However, few studies have evaluated these relations after adjusting for numerous confounding factors. This study evaluated the frequency of various diet items (fruit, soft drinks, fast foods, instant noodles, confections, vegetables, and milk) and the regularity of meal times (breakfast, lunch, and dinner...

A high incidence (over 20%) of obesity was found in 250 neonates living in a rural area of Tunisia, by using weight and ponderal index per gestational age as the nutritional index. Maternal diabetes was probably excluded. Two surveys on nutritional habits--one on the general population and the other on pregnant women--showed a tendency to consume a high carbohydrate and low protein diet. The ef...

What you consume can kill you, or at least have an effect on how long and well you live. In this paper we put aside other attributes that have an effect on your lifespan and focus on diet. We created and will describe a form-based graphical visualization that allows a user to enter his traits and dietary habits to have an estimate generated for the time left to live and the quantity of time eac...