Obesity and Eating Healthy: A Positive Approach

Healthy Eating Index and abdominal obesity.

OBJECTIVE Although diet is a modifiable lifestyle factor to reduce abdominal obesity risk, the relationship between the Health Eating Index (HEI) and waist circumference (WC) has not been studied. The present study aimed to describe relationships between the HEI and abdominal obesity among adults. DESIGN Secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional national survey, the Third National Health a...

"Healthy Eating - Healthy Action": evaluating New Zealand's obesity prevention strategy

BACKGROUND New Zealand rates of obesity and overweight have increased since the 1980s, particularly among indigenous Māori people, Pacific people and those living in areas of high deprivation. New Zealand's response to the obesity epidemic has been The Healthy Eating-Healthy Action: Oranga Kai - Oranga Pumau (HEHA) Strategy ('the Strategy'), launched in 2003. Because the HEHA Strategy explicitl...

A New, Obesity-specific Healthy Eating Index (OS-HEI)

Because of the strong relationship between health status and diet quality, many indices have been developed to measure diet quality. Although most of these indices are intended to show a relationship with health outcomes, in all indices this association has been proved to be moderate, especially in the case of obesity. Moreover, all suggested indices are based on a high level of subjectivity in...

Environmental Justice: Obesity, Physical Activity, and Healthy Eating.

BACKGROUND The term "environmental justice" refers to efforts to address the disproportionate exposure to and burden of harmful environmental conditions experienced by low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations. METHODS Based on computer and manual searches, this paper presents a review of articles in the published literature that discuss disparities in physical activity, dietary habit...

Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Communication about Healthy Eating