Stimuli or insults during the perinatal period can have lifetime consequences and this long-term effect is called ‘programming’. Early nutrition is an important environmental signal that can induce lifetime effects on metabolism, growth and neurodevelopment and on major disease processes such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity – . For instance, exclusive breast-feeding is an early environme...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the healthy and unhealthy behaviors as risk factors for chronic constipation and self-rated health status. Eight hundred tenth students enrolled from a university in Miaoli city, Taiwan. Chronic constipation was assessed using Chinese questionnaire. Information of unhealthy and healthy lifestyles was interviewed by constructed questionnaire. Thirty-six...

background: sound nutrition is very important in relationship with weight status especially in children. the aim of this study was to assess relationship between junk foods intake and weight in children aged 6-7. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out in shahin shahr and meimeh in 2009. anthropometric measures were taken and 24-hour food recall was used for dietary data and were an...

We study the applicability of partially supervised text classification to junk mail filtering, where a given set of junk messages serve as positive examples while the messages received by a user are unlabeled examples, but there are no negative examples. Supplying a junk mail filter with a large set of junk mails could result in an algorithm that learns to filter junk mail without user interven...

Nutrition disorders arise from various interacting factors: cultural, environmental, genetic, physiological, and psychological. Excessive consumption of highly processed food, sugar, salt, alcohol, and saturated fats is a problem nowadays, and consumption of fish, vegetables, and fruit is insufficient. Overeating and an unbalanced diet are often accompanied by stress and a lack of physical acti...

Our paper describes a framework that aids users in the creation of data visualizations augmented with chart junk. Chart junk refers to graphical decorations that are irrelevant to the data, but are meant to make the data graphics more interesting, giving rise to visualizations with low data-to-ink ratios. While outcast at first, recent studies have shown that users tend to find visualizations w...

OBJECTIVES To empirically test the impact of dietary intake at several time points in childhood on children's school attainment and to investigate whether any differences in school attainment between children who ate packed lunches or school meals was due to who these children were, their pre-school dietary patterns, or to what they ate at school. DESIGN Using longitudinal data available in t...

BACKGROUND: Chronic non-communicable diseases are assuming increasing importance among adult population in both developed and developing countries. Hence this study was conducted among college going students. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of risk factors of coronary heart disease among college students aged 18 to 22 years in Kanchipuram town METHODOLOGY:A cross sectional study was condu...

This study explores dietary pattern adopted by the undergraduate medical students and variation in nutritional status among medicos. Objectives were to compare the nutritional status of localites and hostelite medical students and to study their dietary pattern. It was a cross sectional study carried out in 100 medical undergraduate students. 50 hostelite and 50 localite undergraduate medical s...