obesity is an epidemic nutritional disease caused mainly by excessive dietary intake and/or insufficient exercise. the purpose of this study was to investigate associations between a number of demographic characteristics and eating habits with prevalence of overweight and obesity in hospital employees. the study was cross-sectional performed on employees of namazi hospital in shiraz, iran. subj...

Nutritional sociology uses sociological theories and methods to study and influence food patterns, eating habits, and nutrition. Obesity and weight loss are important topics in nutritional sociology, and stigmatization of the obese is a long-standing interest. Most past sociological work has only described stigmatization, rather than developing ways to facilitate coping with it. A model for cop...

Abstract Evans L, Best C (2015) Meeting patients' nutrition and hydration needs. The Nursing and Midwifery Council's new code was introduced in March 2015. For the first time, nutrition and hydration are mentioned specifically within the code. This article explores why this has become necessary and how nursing responsibility for the nutritional care of the patient has changed over the past 150 ...

INTRODUCTION Latin America is undergoing rapid demographic and nutritional transitions with the accompanying tendency to overweight as is common in countries emerging from poverty. In Brazil, changes due to the nutritional transition have affected the whole population, both urban and rural. Overweight in a large number of Brazilian children is one of the greatest public policy challenges. The o...

There are many combinations of drug-drug interactions that have been extensively cited in the literature; on the other hand different food-drug interactions exist and can have serious negative effects on health which must not be discarded. During the present review different points were discussed including effect of drug administration on food utilization, nutritional status and appetite such a...

Abstract Eating habits are inseparably linked with people’s physical and psychological health well-being. Many factors impact on eating behavior nutritional status in older adults. Motivational multidisciplinary interventions have been shown to be highly effective promoting healthy eating, especially hospitalized patients, but often overlooked or not considered. The aim of this chapter is discu...