Healthy Eating Vital Sign: A New Assessment Tool for Eating Behaviors

Healthy Eating Vital Sign: A New Assessment Tool for Eating Behaviors

Introduction. Most dietary questionnaires are not created for use in a clinical setting for an adult health exam. We created the Healthy Eating Vital Sign (HEVS) to assess eating behaviors associated with excess weight. This study investigated the validity and reliability of the HEVS. Methods. Using a cross-sectional study design, participants responded to the HEVS and the Block Food Frequency ...

Ecologic momentary assessment of eating-disordered behaviors.

OBJECTIVE This pilot study evaluated the feasibility of ecologic momentary assessment (EMA) to measure five eating disorder behaviors and to examine reactivity of these behaviors to this measurement approach. The pattern of correspondence between EMA and the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) was also examined. METHODS Women with threshold or subthreshold anorexia and bulimia nervosa (N=16) re...

Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Communication about Healthy Eating

[How to feed children? Healthy eating behaviors starting at childhood].

Interventions to prevent malnutrition or overweight in children focus on the diet, and give little attention to the behaviors of their caretakers. In their first two years of life, children adopt practices that are embedded in their environment and the behaviors of their caretakers, thus turning into nutrition patterns that will persist during their lifetimes. Therefore, children and caretakers...

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...