BACKGROUND Many wrestlers engage in chronic dieting and rapid "weight cutting" throughout the year to compete in a category below their natural weight. Such weight-management practices have a negative influence on their health and nutritional status, so the National Wrestling Coaches Association implemented a new weight-management program for high school wrestlers in 2006. PURPOSE The purpose...

AIMS The objectives of this study were to design a structured prenatal education programme on breastfeeding and to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme. Indicators of effectiveness were selected based on Kirkpatrick's Training Evaluation Model, including satisfaction with the programme, breastfeeding knowledge, breastfeeding attitude, breastfeeding satisfaction, breastfeeding problems an...

conclusions concerns about body image, an avoidant attachment style, and cognitive strategies to regulate negative emotions were the strongest predictors for eating disorder symptoms. based on current research findings, an avoidance attachment style, concerns about body image, and negative emotion regulation cognitive strategies increase eating disorder symptoms in students. because attachment ...

There are an increasing number of educational programs to improve clinical competence and skills to treat mental disorders. For complex disorders there is also a focus on improving the quality of interprofessional work. This paper reports on interprofessional outputs of an educational program on eating disorders. A total of 207 professionals who completed the program were requested to describe ...

OBJECTIVES Explore the level of general nutrition knowledge and demographic influences of knowledge levels in a community sample. DESIGN AND SETTING A sample of volunteers, recruited from community centres in two suburbs of differing socio-economic status, in Adelaide, South Australia. SUBJECTS Two hundred and one people, aged 18 years and older, completed a modified and validated version o...

INTRODUCTION Childcare educators may be role models for healthy eating and physical activity (PA) behaviours among young children. This study aimed to identify which childcare educators' practices are associated with preschoolers' dietary intake and PA levels. METHODS This cross-sectional analysis included 723 preschoolers from 50 randomly selected childcare centres in two Canadian provinces....

Manifestations of lifestyle changes are physical activity, and in unhealthy eating patterns including a diet high fat, carbohydrates, low fiber intake one the reasons for degenerative diseases, namely dyslipidemia. The cause blood lipid profiles is that can be influenced by nutritional knowledge person's attitude. older age, lower body's metabolic function. For this reason, target community ser...

A community-based intervention study was conducted to assess a nutrition education intervention on western style fast food consumption among Chinese children and parents. Eight kindergartens from three district areas of Hefei City (a total of 1252 children aged 4-6 years and their parents) were randomly selected. Descriptive and analytical statistical methods were used to evaluate the baseline,...