نتایج جستجو برای: fast foods

تعداد نتایج: 267589  

2015
Julianne Williams Peter Scarborough Nick Townsend Anne Matthews Thomas Burgoine Lorraine Mumtaz Mike Rayner Shankuan Zhu

INTRODUCTION Researchers and policy-makers are interested in the influence that food retailing around schools may have on child obesity risk. Most previous research comes from North America, uses data aggregated at the school-level and focuses on associations between fast food outlets and school obesity rates. This study examines associations between food retailing and BMI among a large sample ...

2017
Karen E Lamb Lukar E Thornton Dana Lee Olstad Ester Cerin Kylie Ball

OBJECTIVES The residential neighbourhood fast-food environment has the potential to lead to increased levels of obesity by providing opportunities for residents to consume energy-dense products. This longitudinal study aimed to examine whether change in body mass index (BMI) differed dependent on major chain fast-food outlet availability among women residing in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. S...

2013
Laura Seliske William Pickett Andrei Rosu Ian Janssen

BACKGROUND The primary study objective was to examine whether the presence of food retailers surrounding schools was associated with students' lunchtime eating behaviours. The secondary objective was to determine whether measures of the food retail environment around schools captured using road network or circular buffers were more strongly related to eating behaviours while at school. METHOD...

Journal: :Cadernos de saude publica 1999
Z M Hartz

The purpose of this article is to describe several chronological milestones in institutionalizing the evaluation of public programs and policies in France from a governmental perspective and in the health sector, situating such references in the international context. The institutional nature of evaluation implies integrating it into an action-oriented model, linking analytical activities to ma...

Journal: :Preventive medicine 2010
Naa Oyo A Kwate Ji Meng Loh

OBJECTIVE Social science and health literature have identified residential segregation as a critical factor in exposure to health-related resources, including food environments. Differential spatial patterning of food environments surrounding schools has significant import for youth. We examined whether fast food restaurants clustered around schools in New York City, and whether any observed cl...

Journal: :Cadernos de saude publica 2012
Alanderson Alves Ramalho Tatiane Dalamaria Orivaldo Florencio de Souza

This cross-sectional study with university students examined the prevalence of regular consumption of fruits and vegetables and associated factors among students at a Federal university in Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil. 863 undergraduates were interviewed in 2010. Overall prevalence of regular consumption of fruits and vegetables was 14.8%. Factors associated with regular consumption of fruits...

Journal: :Health & place 2012
Mariane Héroux Ronald J Iannotti Dorothy Currie William Pickett Ian Janssen

This study examined the relation between the chain food retail environment surrounding schools, youths' lunchtime eating behavior, and youths' obesity levels across three countries. Participants consisted of 26,778 students 13-15 years old from 687 schools across Canada, Scotland and the US. The density of convenience stores, chain fast food restaurants, and chain cafés within 1 km of each scho...

2013
D. M. Fragaszy D. Biro Y. Eshchar T. Humle P. Izar B. Resende E. Visalberghi

All investigated cases of habitual tool use in wild chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys include youngsters encountering durable artefacts, most often in a supportive social context. We propose that enduring artefacts associated with tool use, such as previously used tools, partly processed food items and residual material from previous activity, aid non-human primates to learn to use tools, and to...

2014
Aleksandra Januszek-Trzciąkowska Ewa Małecka-Tendera Katarzyna Klimek Paweł Matusik

INTRODUCTION The study aim was to evaluate risk factors of obesity in Polish children aged 7 to 9 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS A representative group of 2571 children (1268 girls and 1303 boys) was randomly selected according to the European Childhood Obesity Group protocol. Weight and height were measured and body mass index (BMI) was calculated. A questionnaire was completed by the children'...

2017
Karin Söderqvist

As part of a trend toward healthy convenience foods, ready-to-eat (RTE) mixed-ingredient salads have become popular products among consumers. A mixed-ingredient salad contains combinations of raw (e.g. leafy vegetables and tomatoes) and processed (e.g. chicken, salmon, ham, pasta and couscous) ingredients. Contamination of leafy vegetables can occur during any step in the production chain and, ...

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