conclusions given the results, improving skills, training and awareness is necessary for women and emphasis on modified diet is recommended as a non-medical option for prevention of breast cancer. results the mean scores of feeding type in the patients with and without breast cancer was 56.14 and 66.25, respectively. results obtained from data analysis showed that there was statistically signif...

background: unhealthy nutritional behaviors are a threat to adolescents. in this regard, we compared different training methods through a participatory interventional study. materials and methods: through proportional random selection, 1823 female students were selected from 15 middle schools of tehran. following 2 years of intervention, nutritional habits of three different interventional grou...

Nutrition is a dominant peripheral factor in increasing blood pressure; however, little information is available about the nutritional status of hypertensive patients in Iran. This study aimed to compare nutritional behaviors of the rural controlled and uncontrolled hypertensive patients and to determine the predictive power of nutritional behaviors from blood pressure. This cross-sectional stu...

Poor nutritional status is a major concern for children being treated for an oncology condition. It is vital for optimal prognosis that nutritional concerns are recognised and treated promptly. The majority of oncology treatment centres only use simple methods to screen for poor nutritional status; however, it is unknown whether these simple methods accurately recognise poor nutritional status....

Introduction: Rapid changes in lifestyle, especially in nutritional aspects of the elderly, have led to many chronic diseases. Therefore, attention to nutritional needs of the elderly is an essential issue. The purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of healthy nutrition behaviors based on health belief model (HBM) in the elderlies of Kalat city, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran.. ...

This study explored potential gender and racial/ethnic disparities in overall health risk related to 24 health risk indicators selected across six domains: socioeconomic, health status and health care, lifestyle, nutritional, clinical, and environmental. Using the 20032006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), it evaluated crosssectional data for 5,024 adults in the United...

Abstract Aim: Veterans may have improper eating behaviors and food habits. Therefore, this study is designed to investigate the eating behaviors and food habits of veterans via the nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) model in Zahedan City. Methodology: In a descriptive, cross-sectional study, 369 veterans admitted to the Veterans Foundation in Zahedan were selected. After re...

Picky eating behaviors are frequently observed in childhood, leading to concern that an unbalanced and inadequate diet will result in unfavorable growth outcomes. However, the association between picky eating behaviors and nutritional status has not been investigated in detail. This study was conducted to assess eating behaviors and growth of children aged 1-5 years from the Seoul Metropolitan ...