Adopting a healthier lifestyle includes replacing long-standing unhealthy eating habits with new ones and maintaining these newly acquired healthy habits. A permanent behavior change appears to be difficult maintain, which may follow from some basic learning processes. In the last decades, lot was learned about mechanisms that promote relapse into old behaviours. Taking processes consideration,...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This study aims to determine contribution of meal frequency, self-efficacy for healthy eating, and availability of healthy foods towards diet quality of adolescents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SUBJECTS/METHODS This study was conducted among 373 adolescents aged from 13 to 16 years old. Diet quality of the respondents was assessed using the Healthy Eating Index for Malaysi...

Rates of overweight children and adolescents are reaching epidemic proportions, nearly tripling over the past 30 years. Many barriers exist to healthy eating and physical activity for children and adolescents, including factors in the school and community environments. It is these modifiable school environmental factors that led to the development of the Nutrition Friendly Schools and Communiti...

Objective: Reflections on the meaning and significance of healthy eating for elderly persons in the context of Brazilian public policy. Methods: A document analysis was performed with the aim of analyzing proposed guidelines. Results: A total of three documents were selected: "Dietary guidelines for the Brazilian population: promoting healthy eating", "Ten steps for healthy eating” and "Healthy...

OBJECTIVE To give an account of provisions in the framework of international human rights and intergovernmental policy agreements in relation to eating at school and discuss how these provisions could be invoked to ensure healthy eating at school. DESIGN A review of provisions in the international and European human rights frameworks and policy documents was performed in order to identify evi...

There are numerous everyday health technologies (applications designed for people to use in their daily lives) that promote healthy eating habits. From educational games to monitoring applications, these systems often take a corrective approach in that they are designed to fix the problematic aspects of people's interactions with, and thoughts about, food. We propose a complementary approach, t...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a growing public health concern in Canada. Excess weight is particularly a concern among youth given that obesity in youth predicts obesity in adulthood. Eating behaviors, both inside and outside the home have been associated with increased risk of obesity; however, there is little data among Canadian youth to monitor trends. METHODS The School Health Action, Planning an...

Learning how to cook is an important skill for developing healthy eating behaviors. Moreover, involvement in home cooking may offer young people opportunities for skill building, identity development and social engagement with their families. Recently, there have been concerns that the current generation of young people may not have the opportunities to develop sufficient cooking skills. These ...

BACKGROUND Multiple economic factors and social relationships determine dietary behaviours, but the inter-relations between determinants is unknown. Whether women and men differ in the vulnerability to, and impact of, combined disadvantages is also unclear. We examined associations between diverse combinations of economic resources and social relationships, and healthy eating in British older w...