This study proposes to examine whether eating behaviors and food cravings are altered while watching food-related television programs. More specifically, we examined whether educational food-related television (didactic, realistic portrayal of food) or entertainment foodrelated television (flashy, enticing portrayal of food) had any effect on the eating behaviors and food cravings of participan...

Speculation concerning the role of psychiatric disorders in patients undergoing bariatric surgery is abundant in the literature. Psychiatric factors predicting the success or failure of bariatric surgery have not been adequately described. However, an increasing number of cases of eating disorders in the postoperative period are being reported. A concise literature review and 5 cases are presen...

Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is a common complaint among children and adolescents. For many patients, symptoms exacerbate with eating. This review discusses findings concerning the role of diet in FAP. The foods that are discussed are divided into 2 major groups: food allergies or intolerances, which focus on milk, gluten, and fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and...

Pokušavajući napustiti izraženi predmetno-satni sustav i podijeljenost između razina obrazovanja, učenici 5. 7. razreda OŠ Ive Andrića 4. IX. gimnazije zajedno su proučavali probleme pretilosti pothranjenosti. Osnovnoškolci podrijetlo namirnica njihovu kalorijsku vrijednost te rješavali zadatke u okviru tema Energetski učinci prehrane živih bića Prehrana zdravlje na nastavi Prirode Biologije. G...

BACKGROUND Stress-related eating is associated with unhealthy eating and drinking habits and an increased risk of obesity among adults, but less is known about factors related to stress-driven eating behaviour among children and adolescents. We studied the prevalence of stress-related eating and its association with overweight, obesity, abdominal obesity, dietary and other health behaviours at ...

sharing of the complicated tasks involved in a child’s daily diabetes management routine. The small group setting facilitates increased contact with other children/families, which helps foster a greater sense of peer identity for the children. A major emphasis of the programme is the benefit of increasing flexibility in relation to both eating habits and insulin injections. It also acknowledges...

Ostberg, 0. (1973). BritishJournalofIndustrialMedicine,30,341-351. Interindividual differences in circadian fatigue patterns of shift workers. Data from 37 computer operators and outputhandlers, working on discontinuous 8-16-24 alternating shifts, were collected in the morning, evening, and night shifts during a one-year period. The study was directed to the interindividual diTerences in the wo...

BACKGROUND Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is the first-line of treatment for overweight and obesity patients whose problems originate in maladaptive eating habits (e.g., emotional eating). However, in-person CBT is currently difficult to access by large segments of the population. The proposed SIGMA intervention (i.e., the Self-help, Integrated, and Gamified Mobile-phone Application) is a mHe...