The Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit partners with Adcock Ingram, through its generics portfolio team, to host workshops on disease management and cooking demonstrations on healthy eating for heart disease patients at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.

Other employees have noticed the group’s apple and healthy eating habit, and Mason, a wellness coordinator at Bon Secours Medical Associates, encourages them by example. She also extols the benefits of regular exercise. And she and coworkers filled out their Commitment Cards, consistently log in on BSHSI wellness and participate on the daily challenges, activities and pledge to continue the jou...

BACKGROUND A cross-cultural, randomized study was proposed to observe the effects of a school-based intervention designed to promote physical activity and healthy eating among high school students in 2 cities from different regions in Brazil: Recife and Florianopolis. The objective of this article is to describe the methodology and subjects enrolled in the project. METHODS Ten schools from ea...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Community-based interventions aiming to improve cooking skills are a popular strategy to promote healthy eating. We reviewed current evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions on different confidence aspects and fruit and vegetable intake. RECENT FINDINGS Evaluation of cooking programmes consistently report increased confidence in cooking skills in adults across di...

Student health visitors led a Mini-MEND project for families with young children as part of their public health nursing course. The project gave a framework for the students and staff members from the children's centre to stimulate an awareness of health needs and facilitate health enhancing activities in terms of healthy eating and parenting. Reflection on the initiative identified application...

Although previous studies have established the effectiveness of using small reward-based incentives in inducing the choice and consumption of healthier foods among children, little is known about their impact outside of experimental settings or their effectiveness over time when administered daily. This paper presents the results of a field experiment conducted to provide insight on these matte...

Learning how to cook is an important skill for developing healthy eating behaviors. Moreover, involvement in home cooking may offer young people opportunities for skill building, identity development and social engagement with their families. Recently, there have been concerns that the current generation of young people may not have the opportunities to develop sufficient cooking skills. These ...

BACKGROUND Multiple economic factors and social relationships determine dietary behaviours, but the inter-relations between determinants is unknown. Whether women and men differ in the vulnerability to, and impact of, combined disadvantages is also unclear. We examined associations between diverse combinations of economic resources and social relationships, and healthy eating in British older w...

BACKGROUND Different authors suggest that attitude is a mediator in behavior change, so it is a predictor of behavior practice. The main of this study was to design and to validate two scales for measure adolescent attitude toward healthy eating and adolescent attitude toward healthy physical activity. METHODS Scales were design based on a literature review. After, they were validated using a...

Background: Food prices influence food choices. Purchasing foods with higher nutritional quality for their price may help improve the diet quality of socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals. Objective: This study aimed to describe the co-construction and evaluation of the Opticourses prevention program, which promotes healthy eating among participants in socioeconomically deprived situation...