OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of two school-based programmes to promote students' willingness to engage in lifestyle changes related to eating habits and physical activity behaviours. DESIGN Elementary school-based health promotion intervention, designed as a multicomponent experimental study, based on a behavioural epidemiological model. SETTING Nine intervention and eight comparative p...

BACKGROUND Purchases at small/non-traditional food stores tend to have poor nutritional quality, and have been associated with poor health outcomes, including increased obesity risk The purpose of this study was to examine whether customers who shop at small/non-traditional food stores with more health promoting features make healthier purchases. METHODS In a cross-sectional design, data coll...

Good nutritional knowledge and behaviour among adolescents is important to avoid health problems that can continue into adulthood. This cross-sectional study aimed to provide baseline data on nutritional knowledge and eating habits of adolescents in Sharjah. Data were collected from 300 adolescents aged 9-13 years attending 4 private schools using a validated self-administered questionnaire. Mo...

background and objectives: this study was designed to investigate the association between parental behavior and the dietary intake of tehranian preschool children aged 2-6 years. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study conducted on 310 children aged 2-6 years from the kindergartens of 22 districts of tehran, a qualitative validated 85-item food frequency questionnaire was completed by...

Changing in consumer living standard and health conscious had impact the fast food industry in this 21 century. Customers now are changing their needs and wants from merely asking for convenient food to more healthy food. Due to these, consumer started to demand for healthy fast food from the fast food industry. Many fast food companies in United State had started to change their menu and offer...

Today we live in a globalised world, with no boundaries and where can be updated of any information by the minute. This globalisation phenomenon has lot advantages as well disadvantages. It is wonderful to know news minute, however easiness swiftness real spreads, same goes fake news. Tools, such search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, etc. social media (i.e., Facebook, Instagram Twitter) or ...

Healthy food is becoming increasingly expensive, and families on low incomes face a difficult financial struggle to afford healthy food. When food costs are considered, families on low incomes often face circumstances of poverty. Housing, utilities, health care, and transport are somewhat fixed in cost; however food is more flexible in cost and therefore is often compromised with less healthy, ...