objective: to evaluate the importance of observing healthy habits by pregnant women that influences different aspects of mother and fetus health, we assessed the change in dietary behavior, and cigarette smoking after distributing the guidelines among 485 prenatal care patients. | materials and methods: the subjects were pregnant women who enrolled in health care centers of tehran university fr...

OBJECTIVE To identify approaches for interventions to improve the nutrition of low-income women and children. DESIGN Seven focus groups were conducted with low-income women caring for young children in their households. They discussed shopping, eating at home, eating out and healthy eating. The discussions were recorded and subjected to qualitative thematic analysis. SETTING A semi-rural co...

Today, communication with consumers and their influence towards adopting healthy eating habits must represent a priority for public health authorities in every country around the world. This paper presents the main marketing resources, which can be used to healthier eating promotion among consumers. As nowadays marketing represents a key instrument in influencing the food choices of the modern ...

Cure4Kids organized the first Global eHealth Challenge in 2010. This contest encouraged the creation of innovative multimedia applications to help educate children or parents about cancer and healthy living. Here, we describe one of the applications submitted to this contest. The presented application was designed to be a serious game containing several mini-games intended to teach healthy eati...

Other employees have noticed the group’s apple and healthy eating habit, and Mason, a wellness coordinator at Bon Secours Medical Associates, encourages them by example. She also extols the benefits of regular exercise. And she and coworkers filled out their Commitment Cards, consistently log in on BSHSI wellness and participate on the daily challenges, activities and pledge to continue the jou...

Introduction: Because healthy behaviors learned early in life are more likely to be maintained during adulthood, we aimed investigate longitudinal changes of participants that were regularly involved extracurricular sport activities (athletes; N = 7; 4 boys) and those not (non-athletes, 6; 3 Methods: Participants both groups invited for re-assessment at the age 27, 2019, 12 years after they par...