Objective. To examine the association between socioeconomic factors and weight status across 53 countries. Methods. Data are cross-sectional and from the long version of the World Health Survey (WHS). There were 172,625 WHS participants who provided self-reported height and weight measures and sociodemographic information. The International Classification of adult weight status was used to clas...

Empirical evidence suggests abnormalities in the processing of body stimuli in bulimia nervosa (BN). This study investigated central markers of processing body stimuli by means of event-related potentials in BN. EEG was recorded from 20 women with BN and 20 matched healthy controls while watching and evaluating underweight, normal and overweight female body pictures. Bulimics evaluated underwei...

OBJECTIVE To assess body size stigmatization attitudes (BSSA), their effect on friendship selection, and controllability beliefs in a sample of African American preschool-age children of low socioeconomic status. METHODS Participants included 76 children attending Head Start. Children completed an adjective task, a friendship selection task, and a controllability task. RESULTS On the adject...

The discourse of dual burden caused through underweight and overweight is well-documented globally but this issue and its connection with women's health in Bangladesh is yet to be explored widely. To enrich the current debate, this study, in the context of Bangladesh, examines the patterns, prevalence, and socioeconomic factors influencing the ever-married women of being underweight and overwei...

This descriptive study determined the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity among 752 high-school girls aged 14-18 years in Sistan va Baluchistan province, Islamic Republic of Iran. Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention body mass index percentiles, the prevalences of underweight, overweight and obesity were 16.2%, 8.6% and 1.5% respectively. These rates were similar t...

ABSTRAK Underweight merupakan salah satu masalah gizi balita yang masih tinggi prevelensinya. Di Desa Kapu prevelensi sebesar 13,6% sedangkan target pemerintah yakni dibawah 10%. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara pengetahuan ibu tentang dengan kejadian di Kapu. Desain penelitian menggunakan analitik korelasi pendekatan crossectional. Populasi dari adalah seluruh memiliki...

Background: Malnutrition in children is a major public health problem in developing countries and is one of the common causes of mortality and morbidity in children. We aimed to determine the nutritional status of children aged 2-12 years of age using World Health Organisation(WHO) Z score for Weight for age (WFA)/Body Mass Index (BMI) for age (for children above 108 months), and to evaluate as...

Underweight is a public health problem and the incidence rate still increasing worldwide, including in Indonesia. This condition more common adolescents due to inadequate food intake lack of nutritional knowledge. The other factor that determines status physical exercise. purpose this study was describe awarenesss intentions underweight about research quantitative descriptive study. It conducte...