Access to an adequate supply of nutritious food has been recognized as a basic human right. However, many families across the UK face food insecurity, which is thought to be exacerbated during school holidays. To address this issue, some schools and community groups have chosen to roll out holiday clubs, though research into the effectiveness of such interventions is limited and no studies to d...

This study examined the relation between marital satisfaction and religious holiday ritual practices. One hundred twenty couples, married 9 years on average, completed measures of religious holiday practices (current family and family-of-origin) and marital satisfaction. Couples were interviewed about how important religion was to their family life. Marital satisfaction was related to religious...

BACKGROUND Young people's alcohol and drug use increases during holidays. Despite strong associations between substance use and both violence and unintentional injury, little is known about this relationship in young people holidaying abroad. We examine how risks of violence and unintentional injury abroad relate to substance use and the effects of nationality and holiday destination on these r...

BACKGROUND More people than ever are considered obese and the resulting health problems are evident. These facts highlight the need for identification of critical time periods for weight gain. Therefore the purpose was to assess potential changes that occur in body weight during the Thanksgiving holiday break in college students. METHODS 94 college students (23.0 +/- 4.6 yrs, 72.1 +/- 14.0 kg...

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest adults gain extra weight during the holiday season, however, few studies have been done with children during this time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate gains in growth among elementary children, and compare differences by gender and weight status. METHODS Childrens (n = 90) height and weight were measured before and after their holiday break. Heig...

This paper was motivated by the problem of scheduling the openings of pharmacies during week-ends and holiday periods (shifts). The problem is NP-hard in general and can be modeled as a coloring problem on a graph.In this paper we focus on the special case where the underlying graph is a tree, or, more generally, it is endowed with a tree-metric, and we provide a polynomial-time algorithm. We a...