Introduction. eating habits run in the family and sometimes last a lifetime. For this reason, it is important to evaluate nutrition of adolescents create coherent nutritional educational programs. Material method. study was carried out on group 139 high school students from two counties Moldova. The young people filled questionnaire with questions about their weekly intake cheese, chicken, eggs...

This study investigated the effects of maternal changes during pregnancy in diet, exercise, and psychosocial factors on offspring weight parameters at birth and 6 months. In overweight/obese (OW/OB; n = 132) mothers, greater % kcal from sweets early in pregnancy was the strongest, independent predictor of higher weight for age (WFA) (beta = 0.19; P = 0.004), higher odds of macrosomia (OR = 1.1 ...

Background: The recognized spectrum of impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease (PD) includes pathologic gambling, hypersexuality, compulsive buying, and binge eating, and is commonly related to exposure to dopamine agonist medications. Sweet craving in the general population is a phenomenon that is closely linked to several factors, including poor impulse control. Craving for sweets, t...

Existing strategies for coping with food cravings are of unknown efficacy and rely on principles that have been shown to have paradoxical effects. The present study evaluated novel, acceptance-based strategies for coping with craving by randomly assigning 48 overweight women to either an experimental psychological acceptance-oriented intervention or a standard cognitive reappraisal/distraction ...

We describe a fatal case of histiocytoid Sweet’s syndrome in a patient with myelodysplasia that was refractory to multiple therapies, including steroids. Though corticosteroids are classically the initial treatment for Sweet’s syndrome, other factors should be considered. Pat ients wi th concurrent myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), or other hematologic malignancies, are often unresponsive to conv...

This study investigated the effect of lifestyle patterns, as a combination of diet, physical activity and smoking, on Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) among Qatari women of childbearing age (n = 418), a population group particularly vulnerable to the health sequela of this syndrome. Using data from the National WHO STEPwise survey conducted in Qatar in 2012, Principal Component Factor Analysis was per...

OBJECTIVES We examined the association between diet quality and estimated diet costs. METHODS Freely chosen diets of 837 French adults were assessed by a dietary history method. Mean national food prices for 57 foods were used to estimate diet costs. RESULTS Diets high in fat, sugar, and grains were associated with lower diet costs after adjustment for energy intakes, gender, and age. For m...

Inquiry-based curricula encourage students to develop research and collaboration skills by working with evidence and exploring real problems. Students engaging in inquiry projects must be supported in learning the content and work practices of a domain. SWEets, or scaffolded work environments, are one method of providing this support. We present a new software engineering process for designing ...