BACKGROUND There is a lack of understanding of young men's perspectives in obesity-related research. This study aims to: (1) identify young men's perceived motivators and barriers in adopting healthy eating and physical activity behaviours, and (2) explore any differences in responses by weight status categories. METHODS Ten focus groups (32-63 minutes; 3-9 participants per group) were conduc...

Although this book is written as a guide for parents, there ^vould seem to be a lack of practical advice on the early upbringing ?f the mentally retarded child. Greater emphasis moreover is laid ?n the higher-grade defective than on the problems and future of the lower grades who often present greater difficulties to the families concerned.

OBJECTIVE To explore genetic and environmental contributions to the influence of parental social class and region of upbringing on adult human fatness. DESIGN Survey of sample of adults who had been adopted in childhood to relate their body mass index to sociodemographic variables in a series of multiple linear regression analyses. SUBJECTS 4643 Subjects traced from a register of 5455 non-f...

BACKGROUND The alterations in cortical morphology, such as cortical thinning, observed in psychotic disorder, may be the outcome of interacting genetic and environmental effects. It has been suggested that urban upbringing may represent a proxy environmental effect impacting cortical thickness (CT). Therefore, the current study examined whether the association between group as a proxy genetic v...

Cynefin (pronounced cun-ev-in) 'is a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in English. As a noun it is translated as habitat, as an adjective acquainted or familiar. More poetically, it describes "that relationship: the place of your birth and of your upbringing, the environment in which you live and to which you are naturally acclimatised.' Cognitive Edge 2006).

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(4) Introduction People from minority ethnic groups, forming approximately 8% (4.6 million people) of the population in the UK, are at a disproportionate risk of social exclusion and health inequality.1 The reproductive and sexual health of some of these groups has been identified as a particular area of concern because many are at a higher risk of t...

In the 16th and 17th centuries the Polish pedagogical theory frequently drew attention to the importance of a proper upbringing of the younger generation. This was done the most emphatically by Andrzej F r y c z M o d r z e w ­ s k i , who accorded third place to this question among the most vital problems of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the book On Cus­ toms he wrote: “I think that a...