Recent findings suggest the reward system encodes metabolic value independent of taste, provoking speculation that the hedonic value of taste could be derived from nutritional value as a secondary appetitive property. We therefore dissociated and compared the impact of nutrition and taste on appetitive behavior in several paradigms. Though taste alone induces preference and increased consumptio...

One of the determinants poor improvement in child nutrition indicators observed Laos is mothers’ feeding practices. These practices are influenced by many socio-environmental factors and expected to be targets public health programs against malnutrition. The purpose this work examine how Lao National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) incorporates issue behavior mothers young children its recommendations...

Obesity and other dietary problems make it necessary to have a better understanding of dietary behavior and more effective nutrition education. A dietary behavior questionnaire was developed to measure outcomes of nutrition education as part of an effort to develop a standardized, flexible data collection tool. This questionnaire, which was separated into modules according to food groups, was f...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether elective course work based nutrition education in university can change students' body composition and eating habits associated with obesity and its related health risk in first-year college students. A total of 38 students agreed and participated in the study. Participants received a series of lecture about obesity, weight management, and co...

Molecular biology has moved the gene-environment issue in behavior genetics to how and when expression of the human genome is trig gered and maintained. How does environment influence gene expression? How many genes are expressed in produc ing a given behavior? The genome is a data bank and does not automatically create a working brain. The body and brain grow well when (a) en docrine hormones ...

backgroundmalnutrition can threaten mental and physical development of children while healthy nutrition can improve mental and physical status of children. to select the best foods, children need nutrition education. this study aimed to determine the effect of nutrition education on reducing the consumption of unhealthy snacks in female primary school students in qom- iran.materials and methods...

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of individualized diabetes nutrition education. The nutrition education program was open to all type 2 diabetes patients visiting the clinic center and finally 67 patients agreed to join the program. To compare with 67 education group subjects, 34 subjects were selected by medical record review. The education program consisted of one class session ...

BACKGROUND Nutrition education is not an integral part of either undergraduate or postgraduate medical education. Computer-based instruction on nutrition might be an attractive and appropriate tool to fill this gap. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to assess the degree to which computer-based instruction on nutrition improves factual knowledge and practice behavior of general practitioner (G...