BACKGROUND Snack consumption has been reported to increase over recent decades. Little is known about possible associations between snack composition and snack eating location. In the present study, we aimed to describe the contribution of snacks to dietary intake in Norwegian adults and to investigate whether the composition of snacks differed according to where they were eaten. METHODS Diet...

INTRODUCTION Eating meals away from home has been associated with the consumption of unhealthy foods and increased body weight. However, more rigorous assessment of the contribution of different types of away-from-home food establishments to overall diet quality and obesity is minimal. This study examined usage of these food establishments, accordance to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertens...

OBJECTIVES This study examines environmental factors associated with BMI (body mass index) levels among adolescents with the aim of identifying potential interventions for reducing childhood obesity. METHODS Students (n=1,048) aged 10-14 years at 28 schools in London, ON, completed a survey providing information on age, sex, height, weight, home address, etc., which was used to construct age-...

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether a higher number of fast-food outlets in an individual's home neighbourhood is associated with increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and related risk factors, including obesity. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Three UK-based diabetes screening studies (one general population, two high-risk populations) conducted between 2004 and 2011. The pr...

Data acquired by GOLF experiment onboard SOHO during 20 months has been analysed. GOLF is a disk-integrated sunlight experiment therefore biased to observe very low`modes (` 3). However the excellent ratio signal to background (S=B) achieved permits also the detection of some modes with 4 ` 6 and those from n 8 up to the cut-oo frequency and even beyond with the pseudomodes signal. Due to the n...

Household appliances have fast changed in the last decades and achieved an important role in the ordinary home daily activity, e.g. in assisting people during cooking, phone calls, house monitoring, etc. Pervasiveness and interoperability are interesting aspects related to domestic devices. The semantic web is here considered to make an infrastructural support for resource interoperability by p...

the role of education in improving quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure has been emphasized by many studies. this survey was performed to assess the effect of a confined program of home-care on the health status of patients who were receiving hemodialysis. in this research, 37 patients afflicted by chronic renal insufficiency were chosen and put into two categories randomly, 1...