Many diseases and health risks are the result of unhealthy lifestyles and technology could be used as an intervention. However, designing healthy lifestyle technologies is challenging, as the technology should be able to influence user behavior. In this case study, the design and evaluation process of a persuasive healthy lifestyle assistance technology was investigated. The iterative design an...

PURPOSE Most undergraduate students are in the phase of gaining mental and physical autonomy from their parents as they expand their worlds. The ways that sexual ethics are established during this time may have an important influence on healthy lifestyles and the maintenance of social order. This study aims to determine a typology of undergraduate students' sexual ethics and the characteristics...

The study aimed to evaluate the BBC's 'Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit' campaign's success in achieving public awareness of the need for obesity prevention, and putting over its message of healthy eating and increased physical activity. Demographic factors associated with awareness of the campaign were assessed. Data were collected from a national representative British sample as part of the ONS Omn...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a major public health concern with serious implications for the sustainability of healthcare systems. Studies in the US and UK have shown that ethnicity is consistently associated with childhood obesity, with Black African origin girls in particular being more vulnerable to overweight and obesity than their White peers. Little is known, however, about what promot...

INTRODUCTION The study aimed to explore the gap of prevalence of healthy lifestyle behaviors including smoking cessation, quitting drinking, physical activity and healthy eating between Chinese adults with and without cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). METHODS This study is a cross-sectional component of Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE)-China study, which recruited ~46,000 participant...

Jaboticaba is a tropical plant and its fruit rich in nutrients, volatile compounds, biological activities, which considered to be an edible health benefits plant. Despite popularity for fresh consumption, jaboticaba rarely used intensive processing China. The content of nutrients antioxidant greatly impacts how it processed healthy food. In this study, we evaluated the capacity, compounds three...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the underlying causes obstetrical disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) Cancer is a complicated disease and ranks near top among death across world. Electrochemotherapy (ECT) local treatment method in which chemotherapy electroporation (EP) are used combination facilitate entry drugs into cells. purpose examine cytotoxicity cytosine-bas...

Due to hypoxic conditions, colorectal cancer (CRC) tissues have a specific metabolism compared with normal mucosa, and this study aimed to investigate blood plasma metabolite differences between CRC patients and healthy subjects. Non-targeted methods have previously been used to characterize CRC disease diagnosis and identify small molecules in biological samples, but here we used a metabolomic...

Angiogenesis is considered responsible for the growth of primary tumours and of their metastases. With the present study, the effects of three ruthenium compounds, potassiumchlorido (ethylendiamminotetraacetate)rutenate(III) (RuEDTA), sodium (bis-indazole)tetrachloro-ruthenate(III), Na[trans-RuCl₄Ind₂] (KP1339) and trans-imidazoledimethylsulphoxidetetrachloro-ruthenate (NAMI-A), are studied in ...