The aim of the study was to determine whether an examined group of asthmatic patients differ significantly from a control group of coronary patients with regard to perception of two groups of etiological factors and their interaction: a) ecological factors, and b) habits and behavior of the patients. The study included 100 patients with bronchial asthma and 102 with coronary disease. A question...

Obesity in children is partly due to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, e.g., sedentary activity and poor dietary choices. This trend has been seen globally. To determine the extent of these behaviours in a Portuguese population of children, 686 children 9.5 to 10.5 years of age were studied. Our aims were to: (1) describe profiles of children's lifestyle behaviours; (2) identify behaviour pattern...

The increase of non-communicable diseases at all ages has fostered the general concern for sustaining population health worldwide. Unhealthy lifestyles and dietary habits impacting physical and psycho-social health are well known risk factors for developing life threatening diseases. Identifying the determinants of quality of life is an important task from a Public Health perspective. Consumer-...

Strategies are needed to ensure that the U.S. Government meets its goals for improving the health of the nation (e.g., Healthy People 2020). To date, progress toward these goals has been undermined by a set of discernible challenges: People lack sufficient motivation, they frequently fail to translate healthy intentions into action, their efforts are undermined by the persistence of prior unhea...

Food preferences and habits regarding physical exercise and play regimens appear to become set relatively early in life, the mother being the major influence at this stage. Subsequently, the peer group takes on increasing importance, with continued roles for teachers and parents in providing an environment and guidance leading to adoption of a healthy or an unhealthy lifestyle. Since so many of...

The intestinal microbiota, which has gained a foothold in the field of research, represents significant factor for human health because its ability to form relationships with organism through modulation pathophysiological processes. Dysbiosis, is caused by non-specific inflammation and leads condition persistent low-grade inflammation, may be poor eating habits an unhealthy lifestyle, as well p...

Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity are among the key modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Although such diseases often only appear in adulthood, these behaviors are typically initiated or reinforced already during adolescence. However, knowledge on underlying factors for adolescents' unhealthy dieting and physical inactivity in ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between the nutritional habits of university students with health parameters related to cardiovascular risk. METHODS Three hundred and twelve students (180 females and 132 males; mean age 21.1 +/- 2.8 years) attending King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA were randomly selected from the university register and invited to participate in the study during 2008-...

Atherosclerosis is a pathological condition that begins in early childhood, but clinically the disease manifests in older age. The aim of work was to determine frequency of atherosclerosis risk factors in healthy school children. Cross-sectional study included 214 children in mean age 10,99+/-2,52 years, within range 7 to 15 years. Patients body mass index, blood pressure, lipid status, dietary...

This study was done to investigate the relationship between the perception of body image, body weight satisfaction or dietary behavior and self-rated health status in Korean college students. Subjects, 285 college students, were divided into three groups (healthy, normal, and unhealthy) according to the answer for the self-rated health question. Information about demographic status, self-rated ...