Unhealthy diets are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Simultaneously, factors that influence diet-related ill-health also drive climate change. Acknowledging link between health environmental sustainability, in 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission outlined a diet beneficial for both humans planet. There has since been to adapt this range settings. Thus, Shifting Urban Diets project w...

BACKGROUND Having a TV in the bedroom is associated with adiposity in children. It is not known how lifestyle behaviours (television viewing time, diet patterns, physical activity, and sleep duration) mediate this association. The objective of this study was to examine the mediating role of these lifestyle behaviours in the association between TV in the bedroom and percent body fat (% BF). ME...

This study constitutes the first psychometric examination of the German-language version of the Compensatory Health Belief (CHB) scale to assess the belief that unhealthy behavior can be compensated for by engaging in healthy behavior. Data from four different Swiss samples of 1,571 adolescents/students (age range 15 55 years), collected between 2007 and 2009, were used. Confirmatory factor ana...

BACKGROUND Before starting interventions addressing energy-balance related behaviors, knowledge is needed about the prevalence of sedentary behaviors and low physical exercise, their interrelationships, possible gender differences. Therefore this study aimed to describe gender differences in sedentary and physical exercise behaviors and their association with overweight status in children from ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are growing contributors to global disease burdens, with epidemics of CVD advancing across many regions of the world which are experiencing a rapid health transition. Diet and nutrition have been extensively investigated as risk factors for major cardiovascular diseases like coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke and are also linked to other cardiovascular risk fa...

Correspondence to Dr Helen L Walls; helen. walls@ lshtm. ac. uk IntroduCtIon Malnutrition in all its forms—both underweight and micronutrient deficiencies, as well as overweight, obesity and associated non-communicable disease—is a global health issue, with the majority of cases arising in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Much of this malnutrition, particularly shifts towards an ...

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