Background Maintaining energy balance by consuming the required distribution of macronutrients (nutritional status) is important to support performance and health in collegiate athletes; however, less than 10% of NCAA athletes possess adequate sports nutrition knowledge or maintain nutritional status (Torres-McGehee et al., 2012). A recent study demonstrated that a sports nutrition education in...

College students of Food and Beverage Management related disciplines in southern Taiwan were surveyed in order to investigate the influencing factors of students’ nutritional knowledge, behaviors and attitudes. Eight hundred and fifty questionnaires were given with 723 returned and of which 584 were valid. Results showed that the overall percentage of correct answers on nutritional knowledge, a...

this semi-experimental study was conducted to investigate the impact of nutrition education on knowledge of mothers concerning breast-feeding in giassi charity health centre in the south of tehran, yaftabad. breast-feeding and nutritional awareness of 104 randomly selected mothers was assessed before and after a one-month breast-feeding course (three 90-minutes' sessions per week). the proporti...

Background: Thyroid diseases including Hashimoto's chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis represent an increasing epidemiological problem of the 21st century. disease is estimated to affect approximately 7.0-9.0 per cent population up age 60 years, and as much 10.0-12.0 after years. more common among women childbearing age, but it also increasingly children adolescents. The number reported cases autoi...

background: nutritional education is a necessity in diabetic patients to better control of the disease. the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of educational programs to promote nutritional knowledge in type ii diabetes patients using the health belief model (hbm). methods: this was a quasi-experimental study which was performed among type ii diabetic patients referred to rura...