Family Members' Influence on Family Meal Vegetable Choices

Family members' influence on family meal vegetable choices.

OBJECTIVE Characterize the process of family vegetable selection (especially cruciferous, deep orange, and dark green leafy vegetables); demonstrate the usefulness of Exchange Theory (how family norms and experiences interact with rewards and costs) for interpreting the data. DESIGN Eight focus groups, 2 with each segment (men/women vegetable likers/dislikers based on a screening form). Parti...

Family fun--family tragedy: ATV-related deaths involving family members.

Comparative integromics on VEGF family members.

VEGF, Hedgehog, FGF, Notch, and WNT signaling pathways network together for vascular remodeling during embryogenesis, tissue regeneration, and carcinogenesis. VEGFA (VEGF), VEGFB, VEGFC, VEGFD (FIGF) and PGF (PlGF) are VEGF family ligands for receptor tyrosine kinases, including VEGFR1 (FLT1), VEGFR2 (KDR) and VEGFR3 (FLT4). Bevacizumab (Avastin), Sunitinib (Sutent) and Sorafenib (Nexavar) are ...

Diversity in Family Structure—Diversity in Communication between Family Members?

This study aims at investigating the parent-adolescent communication of Finnish families from a multiinformant perspective. Thirteenand fourteen-year-old adolescents (n = 171) and their parents were asked to complete a questionnaire examining positive and problematic communication between the two parties. Information about their family structure was collected. The results indicated an interrela...

Should family physicians treat members of the same family?: NO.

In Canada, it has long been a given that physicians treat entire families. This notion is so deeply rooted in the culture of family medicine that it is part of the name of our discipline. The world in which we live has changed, however, and so have our patients and our discipline. It is high time that we asked ourselves whether a “family” practice is still a desirable practice. I will attempt t...