Today, communication with consumers and their influence towards adopting healthy eating habits must represent a priority for public health authorities in every country around the world. This paper presents the main marketing resources, which can be used to healthier eating promotion among consumers. As nowadays marketing represents a key instrument in influencing the food choices of the modern ...

BACKGROUND The natural ambulatory activity patterns of older adults are not well understood. User-worn monitors illuminate patterns of ambulatory activity and generate data suitable for analysis using measures derived from nonlinear dynamics. METHODS Ambulatory activity data were collected continuously from 157 community-dwelling older adults for 2 weeks. Participants were separated post hoc ...

In many countries the frequency of eating out has steadily increased over the last few decades, and this behavioris often associated with unhealthy dietary patterns. This study aimed to describe the levels of knowledge, attitude, and behaviors (KAB) related to eating out among university students. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the college town in Chongqing, China with a total of 1634...

This paper discusses the challenges encountered by researchers while conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) testing the efficacy of a healthy lifestyle educational and exercise intervention for people with serious mental illness. RCTs, even though considered the "gold standard" of research designs, are still prone to risks of potential bias and threats to their validity. Based on resear...

INTRODUCTION Health status and health-related quality of life of postmenopausal women are issues, which nowadays pose a serious challenge to many domains of science. Climacteric symptoms which occur at this stage of life, lower its quality and make a negative contribution to self-reported health status, are mostly observed in a particular group of women. Evaluation of health behaviors performed...

Tooth and mouth disease, a dental health problem in the community, is tooth-supporting tissue (periodontal disease) dental/dental cavities. The causes of caries include food consumption, maintenance, teeth’ condition. In Indonesia, children very important major oral diseases. survey conducted by Indonesian Dental Health Foundation (YKGI) 2003 on Jakarta showed that 70% suffered gum inflammation...

background & aim:the major teeth problems associated with adults are: plaque, tartar, tooth decay, gingivitis, periodontal disease. there is a long and venerable history of the use of plants to improve dental health and promote oral hygiene. there are a number of traditional herbal remedies for the treatment and management of diseases related to teeth, gum and oral hygiene. good oral hygien...

BACKGROUND Improving oral health for Aboriginal Australians has been slow. Despite dental disease being largely preventable, Aboriginal Australians have worse periodontal disease, more decayed teeth and untreated dental caries than other Australians. Reasons for this are complex and risk factors include broader social and historic determinants such as marginalisation and discrimination that imp...