This review outlines the state of knowledge and research gaps in the area of determinants of healthy eating among children and youth. The article is structured around individual and collective determinants that affect healthy eating in children and youth. We defined healthy eating as "eating practices and behaviours that are consistent with improving, maintaining and/or enhancing health." Relev...

BACKGROUND Proper nutrition can not only guarantee harmonious child's development, but can also protect against later development of diet-related diseases such as type-2 diabetes, obesity or cardiovascular diseases. Many diseases as well as disorders of intellectual development of a young people may result from the mistakes made in a period of an intense growth and maturing of a child. OBJECT...

Our objective was to determine gender differences in the impact of a nutritional intervention based on the self-determination theory and promoting the Mediterranean diet on changes in eating-related self-determined motivation and adherence to the Mediterranean diet. Changes in eating-related self-determined motivation were larger in men than in women in response to the intervention and at follo...

Considering the scarcity of studies with young workers and the role of diet in the prevention of chronic diseases, the objective of the study was to assess the quality of diet of working college students. The present study investigated 43 university students, aged between 18 and 25 years old who had systematically being involved in a working activity in the past 6 months, paid or unpaid, at lea...

Introduction: Eating Disorder Symptoms and social anxiety can be occurring in the same time. Also social anxiety is one of the important factors predicting Eating Disorder symptoms which vary among different cultures and countries. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between Eating Disorder symptoms and social anxiety in school boys.  Materials and Methods: This was a cross-...

Past research shows that food neophobics (those individuals reluctant to try novel foods) and food neophilics (those individuals overtly willing to try novel foods) differ in terms of sensory evaluations, psychophysical ratings, stimulus sampling, physiological responses, and genetic predispositions. The present study assessed whether such factors had an effect on participants’ dietary consumpt...

Background Counting carbohydrates, nutritional therapy of choice to type 1 diabetics (DM1), allows flexibility in food choices, avoiding diets based on restrictions, and patients can use any food within a healthy eating plan. With an emphasis on the amount of carbohydrates, a change in the quality of the menu, which can lead to inclusion of foods with high glycemic index and high in fat, is oft...

Various species of the family Phalangeridae, commonly known as cuscus (also known as kuskus, or kusu locally in central Maluku), may have been an important terrestrial meat resource in traditional subsistence diets throughout Maluku. Only a few groups continue to hunt cuscus today. Traditional and modern hunting techniques are practiced, and the cuscus meat is highly valued for its flavor, nutr...