BACKGROUND Food preparation skills may encourage healthy eating. Traditional assessment of child food preparation employs self- or parent proxy-reporting methods, which are prone to error. The eButton is a wearable all-day camera that has promise as an objective, passive method for measuring child food preparation practices. PURPOSE This paper explores the feasibility of the eButton to reliab...

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Ministry of Food (MoF) cooking programme on self-reported food consumption and confidence within cooking. Design: A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the MoF 8 week cooking course, using a pre-test/post-test study. Pre, post and 6 month follow-up quantitative outcomes were measured using self-administered questionnaires to record number o...

< Cooking can generate appreciable aerosol within the area where cooking takes place. < Cooking aerosol is largely within the respirable size range. < Fatty acids and dicarboxylic acids are major components. < Other constituents are alkanones, alkanals, lactones, PAH, sterols and alkanes. < Raw food, cooking oil, cooking style and temperature affect aerosol composition. a r t i c l e i n f o

The aspect of preventive medicine is mainly based upon the intake of competed food stuffs. Ayurveda is the pioneer system to give due place to this branch. The author discusses in this paper the human dietetics from tho view point of physical and social hygiene by deeply thinking of surrounding environmental and social conditions.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effectiveness of microwave ovens in assisting elderly persons with disabilities with cooking food. METHOD The participants were five elderly persons who had gross motor, fine motor, or vision impairments but no cognitive impairments. Before the study, none of the participants owned or operated a microwave oven. In this single-subject design of four phases (AB...