The purpose of this study is to understand knowledge about and general attitudes towards nutrition, dietary restriction attitudes, and dietary restriction behavior in the Taiwanese elderly, and the relationship of these various components to each other. Data from the Elderly Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (1999-2000) were used for analysis and included 1937 elderly persons aged over 65. ...

In the past, efforts to improve the transition to lactation have focused largely on preventing infections and maximizing energy intake in transition cows, and these have generally been treated as independent issues. However, new models are emerging to explain the development of numerous transition disorders. A combination of insults, including social stress, negative energy balance, heat stress...

The food choices consumers make have considerable consequences for the environment. In the Western world, about one-third of all negative environmental impact is directly related to food consumption. Although many consumers are concerned about environmental issues, this frequently has little effect on actual nutritional behavior and new approaches are needed to convert good intentions into acti...

The objective was to determine if a relationship exists between participation in a school breakfast program and measures of psychosocial and academic functioning in school aged children. Information on participation in a school breakfast program, school record data, and in depth interviews with parents and children were collected in 1 public school in Philadelphia, PA, and 2 public schools in B...

background: to examine the effect of nutritional education on children’s breakfast patterns methods: a kindergarten based nutrition intervention was started in september 2001 among 8 kindergartens in hefei with a total of 2,012 children aged 4-6 years and their parent pairs. results: monthly nutrition education sessions were held over two semesters in kindergartens part of the intervention arm....

N. Zeeni, N. A. Nadkarni, J. D. Bell, R. Sinkus, G. Fromentin, D. Tome, and N. Darcel CNRH-IdF, UMR914 Nutrition Physiology and Ingestive Behavior, AgroParisTech, Paris, France, CNRH-IdF, UMR914 Nutrition Physiology and Ingestive Behavior, INRA, Paris, France, Metabolic and Molecular Imaging Group, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College...

This pilot project in Zhejiang Province, China, aimed at improving the nutrition and health status of students, school personnel and parents, and developing a model project for nutrition interventions for the development of health-promoting schools (HPS) in China. Three primary and three secondary schools participated. Interventions included establishing school-based working groups, nutrition t...

Three studies document the effect of cultural mindset cued by national identity on consumers' response to nutrition information. French, but not American consumers experience nutrition and taste as incompatible and rate even healthy food more negatively if nutrition information is provided. This effect is triggered by the distinctive cultural mindset of food enjoyment cued by a salient French i...