aim: there is conclusive scientific evidence of the adverse effect of excessive salt consumption on health, particularly on blood pressure, leading to cardiovascular disease (cvd), gastric cancer, osteoporosis, cataracts, kidney stones, diabetes and obesity. we investigated the determinants of salt consumption among the rural women in chabahar (iran) by applying the theory of planned behavior. ...

1024x768 background: sedentary lifestyles, along with diets low in fruits and vegetables, complex carbohydrates and high in fat and total energy are increasing among adolescents. these unhealthy behaviors associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. healthful dietary behaviors, such as fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescents had been reported as inadequat...

Fast food is popular among children and adolescents; however, its consumption has often been associated with negative impacts on nutrition and health. This study examined current fast food consumption status among middle school students and explored factors influencing fast food consumption by applying Theory of Planned Behavior. A total of 354 (52.5% boys) students were recruited from a middle...

With growing awareness that sustainable consumption is important for quality of life on earth, many individuals intend to act more sustainably. In this regard, interest in reducing meat consumption is on the rise. However, people often do not translate intentions into actual behavior change. To address this intention-behavior gap, we tested the self-regulation strategy of mental contrasting wit...

background: studies report inappropriate snack and junk food consumption patterns in children and young adults in iran. the current survey was aimed to explore fast food consumption behaviors in high-school students based on the theory of planned behavior. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was done among 500 high-school students. samples were selected based on cluster sampling meth...

background : the importance of consuming fruits and vegetables (f&v;) in prevention of chronic diseases is known. childhood play an important role in formation of healthy eating habits. the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of education, with application of the theory of planned behavior, on improvement of f&v; consumption. methods : in this quasi-experimental study, 184 fourth, f...

Social media platforms are often used by people to express their needs and desires. Such data offer great opportunities to identify users’ consumption intention from user-generated contents, so that better tailored products or services can be recommended. However, there have been few efforts on mining commercial intents from social media contents. In this paper, we investigate the use of social...

OBJECTIVE To examine the roles of child cognitions and parental feeding practices in explaining child intentions and behaviour regarding fruit and vegetable consumption. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys among pre-adolescent children and their parents. SETTING The child questionnaire included measures of fruit and vegetable consumption and cognitions regarding fruit and vegetable consumption a...