It is recognised that eating habits established in early childhood may track into adult life. Developing effective interventions to promote healthier patterns of eating throughout the life course requires a greater understanding of the diets of young children and the factors that influence early dietary patterns. In a longitudinal UK cohort study, we assessed the diets of 1640 children at age 3...

conclusions: the presented food-based strategies in this study introduce a precise management for depression benefiting from iranian traditional medicine resources. background: considering the increasing prevalence of depression in contemporary societies, general tendency for safer treatments with fewer side effects has recently been a subject of interest. objectives: food-based strategies, whi...

BACKGROUND Food companies often use healthy lifestyle messages in child-directed advertising, raising public health concerns about health halo effects for nutrient-poor food/drinks. OBJECTIVE Examine effects of health messages promoting nutrient-poor foods in child-directed advertising. METHODS Randomized controlled experiment (N = 138). Children (7-11 years) viewed three child-friendly com...

Despite increased regulations and policy enforcement for nutrition labeling, ambiguous labels on food items can still have deleterious effects on consumer perceptions of health. The present study used a counterbalanced within-subjects design to test if emolabeling - the use of emoticons to convey health information (happy = healthy; sad = not healthy) - will reduce the effects of ambiguous labe...

This study designed and validated a questionnaire aimed at examining parental feeding styles to encourage healthy eating habits among Costa Rican adolescents. Adolescents (n=133; mean age 15.4 years), and their parents, participated in the study. The parents completed a parental feeding style questionnaire, and the adolescents completed 3-day food records. Confirmatory factor analyses suggest f...

as the main element of economy, human being has requirements the main one of which is the need for food security and healthy nutrition. unfortunately, in the iranian society there are two groups of people who do not enjoy food security. these groups include people who either do not have the financial means to provide healthy and nutritious food or those who, despite having the financial means, ...

background: diabetes is a major risk factor of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease with high mortality. prevalence of diabetes type 2 is increasing in middle eastand iran. in the current study, relationship between major food patterns and diabetes type 2 were assessed. methods: in this case control study, 332 subjects (110 newly diagnosed cases and 222 controls); 43-77 years of age ...

OBJECTIVE To study the association between the availability of healthy foods and BMI by neighbourhood race and socio-economic status (SES). DESIGN Trained staff collected demographic information, height, weight and 24 h dietary recalls between 2004 and 2008. Healthy food availability was determined in thirty-four census tracts of varying racial and SES composition using the Nutrition Environm...