OBJECTIVES This study tested the efficacy of an 8-week, culturally targeted community-based nutrition and physical activity promotion intervention, Fight Cancer with Fitness! (FCF). METHODS A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in a black-owned commercial gym in a sample of 366 predominantly overweight or obese, healthy African-American women. RESULTS Dietary quality as indexed by fr...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how affordability of healthy food varies with community characteristics in rural settings. We examined how the cost of fresh fruit and vegetables varies with the economic and demographic characteristics in six rural counties of Texas. METHODS Ground-truthed data from the Brazos Valley Food Environment Project were used to identify all food stores in the rural ...

OBJECTIVE We sought to document increases in caloric contributions from sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice among US youth during 1988-2004. PATIENTS AND METHODS We analyzed 24-hour dietary recalls from children and adolescents (aged 2-19) in 2 nationally representative population surveys: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (1988-1994, N = 9882) and National Healt...

mazafati date is a wet and semi-dried date fruit type with dark red to black color that has premier quality. because of its high moisture content, date fruits of this variety are very perishable at room temperature and therefore must be refrigerated during storage. in this study, effect of air temperature (50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 ˚c) and air flow rate (1, 1.5 and 2 m/s) in hot air drying of mazaf...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) is a tropical plant, best known for its fruit, used as spice all around the world. The fruits of black can be processed in various ways, so there are end products such white, black, red, and green pepper. contains many substances terpenes, alkaloids, lignans, phenylpropanoids, etc., which responsible some most important biological activities: antioxidant, antimicr...

OBJECTIVE We compared fruit and vegetable (FV) intake, physical activity (PA), and overweight/ obesity among Black and White females attending two- and four-year colleges. METHODS We recruited 24,055 students at six colleges in the Southeast to complete an online survey, yielding 4840 responses (20.1% response rate). The current analyses focused on the 2276 Black and White females. RESULTS ...