Introdução: As políticas públicas de saúde têm reforçado a importância do empoderamento e da autonomia dos indivíduos, mas esses aspectos são desconhecidos na área Nutrição. Objetivo: Identificar elementos que contribuem para o fortalecimento nas escolhas alimentares participantes grupos Educação Alimentar Nutricional. Métodos: Pesquisa qualitativa perspectiva das representações sociais realiza...

Cues associated with food can stimulate food anticipation, procurement, and consumption, independently of hunger. These and other behaviors driven by learned cues are persistent and can reappear after extinction, because the original learned associations continue to exist. Renewal, or reinstatement, of extinguished conditioned behavior may explain the inability to change maladaptive eating habi...

background : the knowledge of women about methods of cooking food materials is very important in keeping family members healthy.   objective : to assess the knowledge of women who live in ray city about methods of cooking food materials.   design : this was a field study in which the knowledge of women about cooking food materials were determined by using a questionnaire.   samples : 200 women ...

The objective of the present study was to examine the associations between the portion sizes of food groups consumed with measures of adiposity using data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey of British adults. Seven-day weighed dietary records, physical activity diaries and anthropometric measurements were used. Foods eaten were assigned to thirty different food groups and analyses were...

Studies indicate an attentional bias towards food in binge-eating disorder (BED); however, more evidence on attentional engagement and disengagement and processing of multiple attention-competing stimuli is needed. This study aimed to examine visual attention to food and non-food stimuli in BED. In n = 23 participants with full-syndrome and subsyndromal BED and n = 23 individually matched healt...

BACKGROUND Low-income, urban populations' limited access to healthy foods is often pointed to as a key barrier to improving nutrition. Although much has been written on identifying urban "food deserts," little has been done to examine how the food environment changes over the course of 1 year. PURPOSE This study was designed to dynamically describe the urban food environment as a means to ide...

BACKGROUND No previous study has shown the validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in early pregnancy with consideration of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP). The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of a FFQ in early pregnancy for Japanese pregnant women. METHOD We included 188 women before 15 weeks of gestation and compared estimated nutrient intake and food grou...