The aim of the current investigation was to explore practitioners’ attitudes toward and reasons for listening open-access podcasts. It is well accepted within literature that sport exercise practitioners, such as coaches scientists, perceive several barriers access scientific academic research. Open-access podcasts may provide an alternative platform developing esoteric knowledge. Nine practiti...

Weight bias is present in different scenarios, one of them the area health on part its professionals. For this reason, aim descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study was to determine whether weight towards people with obesity observed among students Nutrition Dietetics career Catholic University Temuco provide corrective measures prevent bias. The participants were 94 nutrition dietet...

Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) has been closely related to health improvement. The under-appreciation for energy output by nutritionists stems in part from limited data expressed in caloric equivalent. We converted the frequency, duration, and intensity of LTPA, reported from 15,390 adults in the Taiwan National Health Interview Survey 2001, into kilocalories (kcal). Half of Taiwanese ad...

Alaskan Natives . comprehensive health and wellness policies and plans that Food include provisions to promote healthy eating, The National Nutrition Health disparities Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center Tribal Public Health Law project is one tool RDNs can use to find resources tailored to tribal governments working to develop 2212-2672/Published by Elsevier Jnc. on behalf of ...

As a result of the rapid shift in dietary and activity patterns, the world is facing a pandemic of obesity. This new global pandemic is rapidly becoming a problem of the poor. Extensive work has been undertaken to document the changes in weight and, to a much lesser extent, in diet, energy expenditures, and activity patterns. Broad-based creative public health actions are needed to offset these...

Recently I was sent an email with a link to a petition put together by staff and graduate students of Cornell University. The email was headed ‘Nutrition and Public Health Scientists against War’. It invited colleagues throughout the world to sign the petition and send it on. When I last checked there were 1261 signatures, which include mine and no doubt those of many readers of this journal. B...

O NE HALLMARK OF A FIRSTrate leader is the ability to work amid viewpoints seemingly juxtaposed, transcending perceived differences in pursuit of a shared vision. Regardless of their specialty, registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) are finding themselves called to lead with more frequency and to lead in more diverse environments—from volunteer positions within the communities they serve, to...

PURPOSE The current versions of the Adapted Fresno test (AFT) are limited to physiotherapists and occupational therapists, and new scenarios and scoring rubrics are required for other allied health disciplines. The aim of this study was to examine the validity, reliability, and internal consistency of the AFT developed for speech pathologists (SPs), social workers (SWs), and dieticians/nutritio...

INTRODUCTION Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCCDs) represent a burden for public health. Alongside the established cardiometabolic risk factors such as high blood pressure and disorders of glucose and lipid metabolism, living habits and nutritional status at different stages of life are seen as contributors to this scenario. Gut microbiota composition and subclinical inflammation have been ...