Health claims on food products are often used as a means to highlight scientifically proven health benefits associated with consuming those foods. But do consumers understand and trust health claims? This paper provides an overview of recent research on consumers and health claims including attitudes, understanding and purchasing behaviour. A majority of studies investigated selective product–c...

Stress, poor body attitude, depression, inflammation, insulin resistance, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and social isolation may all contribute to reduced survival in patients with cancer. In 2011, Sutter Medical Group launched a medical group appointment program for cancer patients in which patients meet with a physician (myself), a behaviorist, and a chaplain for 2 hours/week for 6 weeks to ...

BACKGROUND Planning the educational programs and informing people regarding the prevention of widespread diseases like cancers is necessary. With regard to high mortality rate of gastric cancer, the present study was conducted to define the effect of education based on Health Belief Model on knowledge, attitude and nutritional practice of homemakers. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this intervention...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of label design on children's perception of 2 popular snack foods across 3 income levels. DESIGN Labels of 2 snack products (yogurt and sponge cake) were designed using a fractional factorial design with 3 2-level variables: cartoon character, nutrition claims, and front-of-package nutritional information. PARTICIPANTS A total of 221 children (aged 9-13 y...

Food choice is influenced by a large number of factors, including social and cultural factors. One method for trying to understand the impact of these factors is through the study of attitudes. Research is described which utilizes social psychological attitude models of attitude-behaviour relationships, in particular the Theory of Planned Behaviour. This approach has shown good prediction of be...

BACKGROUND Levels of salt consumption and its awareness among medical students in Angola remain insufficiently studied. This study determined salt intake and assessed medical students' knowledge, attitude and behaviour regarding salt consumption. METHODS Were collected 24-hour urine samples from a random sample of 123 undergraduate medical students aged 17-43 years who were studying at the Un...

Background: Vitamin B12 and folate defi ciency can cause anemia which may lead growth and development impairments. This study was aimed to determine serum folate levels among infants aged 6–8 months and the relation to infants’ nutritional indicators and maternal knowledge-attitude-practice about infant feeding. Methods: A cross–sectional design was implemented in infants aged 6–8 months and th...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the perceived stres level and its relationship with healthy nutrition attitude body weight in adults. Material Methods: descriptive epidemiological was conducted a total of 600 adult individuals who agreed fill out online questionnaire. Sociodemographic characteristics, stress levels nutritional attitudes were determined 25-question questionnaire applied ...

Background Failure to plan a pregnancy can adversely affect the health of the family as a whole. High parity is related to increased maternal, perinatal and infant deaths and is associated with nutritional problems of both mother and child. Hence, good knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning among women are important. This study is aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude and prac...

background: planning the educational programs and informing people regarding the prevention of widespread diseases like cancers is necessary. with regard to high mortality rate of gastric cancer, the present study was conducted to define the effect of education based on health belief model on knowledge, attitude and nutritional practice of homemakers. materials and methods: in this intervention...