conclusions this study showed significant associations between the seven dietary patterns and overweight and obesity among adolescents. using dietary patterns within adolescents can provide important information on dietary consumption, and this approach is clearer and much easier to follow. patients and methods a total of 840 students, ages 15 - 17, from six schools were enrolled in this cross-...

The Food Habits Questionnaire (FHQ) is a 20 item self-report questionnaire that measures food intake habits. Questions are about typical eating patterns over the past month, and are rated on a 4-point Likert scale from 1 “Never or Rarely” to 4 “Usually or Always", or “Not applicable”. Fat intake is assessed by focusing on four food selection behaviors: excluding high-fat ingredients and high-fa...

It is probably true to say that, within months of birth, everyone in the world will have his own personal food preferences. These will be based on foods which have been made familiar to him either because they grow where he lives or because they can be transported there at reasonable cost, but his ultimate choice will be based on many additional personal and cultural factors. Among these are th...

BACKGROUND It is well documented in the literature that low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with lower consumption of healthy foods and that these differences in consumption patterns are influenced by neighborhood food environments. Less understood is the role that SES differences in physical and social aspects of the home food environment play in consumption patterns. METHODS Using ...

OBJECTIVE Every society follows its own traditional health-care beliefs and practices during and after pregnancy, which is intimately linked to its socio-cultural environment. The objective of the present study was to document pregnancy-related food practices and the social-cultural factors linked with them. DESIGN The present study was a cross-sectional one conducted among a group of women r...