Liking and craving for chocolate and related substances were surveyed in a sample of University of Pennsylvania undergraduates (n = 249) and their parents (n = 319). Chocolate was highly liked in all groups, with a stronger liking by females. Chocolate is the most craved food among females, and is craved by almost half of the female sample (in both age groups). Although this craving is related ...

Food intake choice and amount might change with stress. However, this has not been examined among Egyptian students. We examined students' stress levels, its correlation with their consumption of a range of food groups, and adherence to dietary guidelines. A cross sectional survey (N = 2810 undergraduates at 11 faculties at Assiut University, Egypt) assessed two composite food intake pattern sc...

Gulabjamun is a popular sweet prepared in all parts of India. Like other sweets, the manufacture of gulabjamun is also largely in the hands of halwa is who adopt small scale batch method. Though there is large variations in the sensory quality of gulabjamun, the most liked product should have brown colour, smooth and spherical shape, soft and slightly spongy body free from both lumps and hard c...

The aim of this study was to describe the dietary patterns of pregnant women in northern Puerto Rico and explore associations between diet factors with pregnancy related measurements. This analysis is based on the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT), a prospective cohort that is studying environmental risk factors for preterm births in PR. Participants completed a...

OBJECTIVE Several environmental factors influence adolescents' food habits and television (TV) viewing is thought to be one of these factors. The purpose of the present study was to describe sociodemographic differences in TV viewing and to examine associations of TV viewing with the consumption of sweets, soft drinks, fruit and vegetables in different countries. METHODS Data were collected f...

Carbon isotopic signatures (‘‘dC’’) might reflect consumption of cornand cane-based sweeteners. The authors hypothesized that the dC value of human serum is higher for individuals with high versus low intakes of cornand cane-based sweeteners (measured as sweetened beverage intake). They conducted a cross-sectional study within the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Magnetic Resonance Imaging s...

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore trajectories in health behaviors from pre-crisis boom, to crisis, to recovery. Health-compromising behaviors (sm...

Sucrose consumption in preschool or school children, or in adolescents is generally accepted as being promotive of dental caries. (Takeuchi, 1961; Yudkin, 1969; Bowen, 1978; Newbrun, 1979; Shaw, 1985). That this is no recent association has been illustrated by Shaw (1985) in his review of the relationship of diet to dental caries in which he quoted a question posed by Aristotle in 350 BC “Why d...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between sleep and dietary intake in adolescents using an experimental sleep restriction protocol. DESIGN Randomized crossover sleep restriction-extension paradigm. SETTING Sleep obtained and monitored at home, diet measured during an office visit. PARTICIPANTS Forty-one typically developing adolescents age 14-16 years. INTERVENTIONS The 3-week...