Healthy Eating for Elders: Smart Snacking

Eating style, television viewing and snacking in pre-adolescent children.

INTRODUCTION Television viewing is considered to be a risk factor for overweight in children because of its association with reduced physical activity and increased calorie intake. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study is to examine whether eating styles affect the relationship between television viewing (TV-viewing) and snacking. METHOD In a sample of 962 pre-adolescents, self-reported te...

Eating well for healthy joints

Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent and disabling chronic diseases affecting older people. It is a degenerative disease of synovial joints that has a major impact on joint function and quality of life. The only resident population of cartilage tissue is represented by chondrocytes, cells synthetizing ECM components and being responsible for cartilage homeostasis [1]. Thus it is cle...

Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Communication about Healthy Eating

Healthy snacking recommendations: one size does not fit all.

An underlying factor contributing to a lack of consensus in the scientific literature regarding the health effects of snacking may be the diversity of study populations. In fact, the influence of snacking likely varies with different target populations. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that snacking may make important contributions to a healthy diet, especially among old...

Smart Phones for the Elders: Boosting the Intelligence of Smart Homes

The ICTA center, recently established at the University of Florida, focuses on the use of wireless and pervasive technologies to enhance the quality of life and independence of elders or those aging with or into disabilities. In this article, we describe one of the research and development activities in the center that adopts the emerging smart phones technology as an effective booster of the u...