BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of a sodium reduction program at local restaurants through nutrition education and examination of the health of restaurant owners and cooks. SUBJECTS/METHODS The study was a single-arm pilot intervention using a pre-post design in one business district with densely populated restaurants in Seoul, South Korea. The inter...

Process evaluation was used to examine the implementation of a randomized, controlled trial of an education intervention that improved infant growth in Trujillo, Peru. Health personnel delivered the multi-component intervention as part of usual care in the government health centers. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine process indicators, which included the extent of delive...

obesity and overweight have become increasingly a major public health problem across the world. this study aimed at exploring the effects of motivational interviewing on weight efficacy lifestyle among women with obesity and overweight. a single-blind randomized clinical trial study was conducted on 100 overweight and obese women who attended a nutrition clinic. the samples were selected based ...

Objective: This study aimed to examine the effects of healthy nutrition education on eating habits and anthropometric measurements preschool children nutritional knowledge levels their teachers. Material Methods: Sixty educated in a kindergarten Ankara 6 teachers were included this follow-up single-center study. Researchers applied separate questionnaires including ''Food Preference Image'' for...

The purpose of the study was to assess the determinants of nutrition behaviors and body mass index and determine the impact of a nutrition education intervention (NEI) among Mauritian housewives. A pretest-posttest design was used assessing Nutrition Knowledge (NK), Nutrition Attitudes, Fruit and Vegetable Intake (FVI), body mass index (BMI). Two hundred Mauritian housewives were recruited. The...

conclusions the present study showed the beneficial effects of nutritional training on fatigue and adl in patients with ms. therefore, nurses and dietitians should regularly assess the patients’ dietary pattern and train them and their families about appropriate diet. methods this quasi-experimental one group, pretest and posttest study was performed on 40 patients with ms, who were convenientl...

introduction: responsive medicine is an appropriate training method which trains the graduates who can act effectively in initial and secondary aspects of health issues in the society. methods: this was a cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study which was done using quantitative method. the target population of this study was all the students of the nutrition and health school of shiraz unive...

The objective of this paper was to identify the necessity of a theory incorporating "a holistic view of food and nutrition dynamics". The generation of this theory and its potential to effect nutrition education practices, was also examined using examples of practice in Japan. The necessity and potential of a nutrition theory with "a holistic view of food and nutrition dynamics" was shown throu...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients often find integrating a new dietary pattern into their lifestyle challenging; therefore, the PANDA (Physical Activity and Nutrition for Diabetes in Alberta) menu plan intervention was developed to help people incorporate the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) nutrition therapy guidelines into their daily lives. The menu plan focused on recipes and foods that wer...