Iron-deficiency anaemia (IDA) is a common health problem in rural women and young children of Bangladesh. The university students usually take food from residential halls, and the food value of their diets is not always balanced. This cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of iron-deficiency anaemia among the university students of Noakhali region, Bangladesh. Haemoglobi...

Sweet tasting foods have been found to have an analgesic effect. Therefore people might consume more sweet-tasting food when they feel pain. In Study 1, participants were randomly assigned to a pain or non-pain condition and their consumption of cheesecake was measured. Participants ate more cheesecake (a sweet-tasting food) following a painful experience than a non-painful one. In Study 2, par...

Recent advances in biosciences support the hypothesis that diet modulates various body functions. Diet may maintain well-being and reduce the risk of some diseases. Such discoveries have led to the concept of "functional food" and the development of the new discipline, i.e., "functional food science." A practical and simple definition of a "functional food" is a food for which a claim has been ...

BACKGROUND Forming 'habit' - defined as a learned process that generates automatic responses to contextual cues - has been suggested as a mechanism for behaviour maintenance, but few studies have applied habit theory to behaviour change. This study used process evaluation data, taken from a randomised controlled trial of a healthy child-feeding intervention for parents previously shown to be ef...

In this fast paced and busy scheduled life, people very seldom are giving importance to the quality of food they are eating. Fast food consumption is increasing dramatically among the people over the past few years. And this consequently, has lead to unhealthy food habits among the people of all generation. Hence it has become very essential for the people to have a good balanced nutritional he...

The purpose of this study was to discuss the food sanitation knowledge, attitude, and behavior for the employees of university restaurants, and furthermore, to explain the interrelations of these various were occurring at school. A questionnaire survey procedure was used. Each two constructs of food sanitation attitude and behavior were analyzed by factor analysis. Data was analyzed by descript...

The purpose of this article was to describe the phenomenon of a new disorder called orthorexia nervosa. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the definitions, prevalence, diagnostic criteria, method and treatment of orthorexia. This disturbing behaviour concerns the pathologic obsession for healthy nutrition. In contrast to eating disorders, people with orthorexia are obsessed with fo...

Since the invention of the internal combustion engine, traffic jams have become an inevitable part of life. ‘One of the problems faced by any transportation system is dealing with changes in traffic congestion’, says Tanya Latty, from the University of Sydney, Australia. ‘Sometimes there are simply more cars on the road than the system can handle’, she explains.And ants frequently face the same...

Introduction: It has been proven that girls have better eating habits, and therefore the aim was to assess dietary behavior of boys, taking into account BMI-for-age and place of residence observed as urban or rural, in the Canton of Sarajevo. Material (participants) and methods: The study included 60 adolescent boys from rural and 264 from urban areas of the Canton of Sarajevo, aged 13-15. Meth...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate an employee Internet-based weight management program. METHODS Changes in eating habits, stage of change, body weight, and weight categories were compared between enrollment and 6 months after enrollment. Weights and weight categories were compared among a subset of participants and non-participants at 12 months. RESULTS Seven thousand seven hundred forty-three Internat...