What's Eating Us about What We're Eating

What's eating us about what we're eating.

In order to assess the time at which the distant metastases were initiated, a model has been developed to simulate the natural history of human breast cancer. The metastasis appearance curves were fitted to those observed for tumours of various sizes among the 2648 patients treated at the Institut Gustave Roussy from 1954 to 1972. The model assumes that metastases are initiated when the tumour ...

Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Communication about Healthy Eating

Comparative optimism about healthy eating.

The present study investigated people's perception of their own as compared to their peers' healthy eating and related these perceptions to actual healthy eating, BMI, and subsequent healthy eating behavior. Data were collected within the framework of the longitudinal cohort study Konstanz Life Study (T1: N = 770; T2: N = 510). Our results demonstrated an optimistic bias on the group level. Spe...

Changing eating habits: what does it really mean for patients who do not complain about eating difficulties?

Alimentation is necessary for survival. The ability to eat depends, among other factors, on the capacity to swallow. This is a physiologically complex process that is subject to the integrity of the system through which it is executed at various levels. The process can be altered by illness or medical and surgical interventions. On the other hand, clinical treatments that can aid swallowing are...

Health, Happiness and Eating Together: What Can a Large Thai Cohort Study Tell Us?

Our research investigates the significance of frequent solo consumption of main meals and the association with a holistic wellbeing measure of happiness using data from 39820 Thai Cohort Study members who completed 8-year follow-up in 2013. This nationwide cohort has been under study since 2005 to analyse the dynamics and determinants of the health-risk transition from infectious to chronic dis...