Unhealthy behaviors, notably tobacco use; unhealthy diets; and inadequate physical activity are major contributors to chronic disease in the U.S. and are more prevalent among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Differences in the prevalence of unhealthy behaviors among communities with different physical, social, and economic resources suggest that contextual environmental factors play an i...

BACKGROUND Rising levels of obesity in school-age children across Europe are causing increasing concern. The 'Children, Obesity and associated avoidable Chronic Diseases' project sought to examine the effects of promotion within food marketing, given the influential role it plays in children's diets. METHOD A questionnaire and data-collection protocol was designed for the national co-ordinato...

Title: A school-based intervention improved dietary intake outcomes and reduced waist circumference in adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Authors: Angelica Ochoa ([email protected]) Rosmarijn Verstraeten ([email protected]) Lieven Huybregts ([email protected]) Silvana Donoso ([email protected]) Susana Andrade ([email protected]...

Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity are among the key modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Although such diseases often only appear in adulthood, these behaviors are typically initiated or reinforced already during adolescence. However, knowledge on underlying factors for adolescents' unhealthy dieting and physical inactivity in ...

Unhealthy diets are increasing contributors to poor health and mortality in low- middle-income countries (LMICs). Government interventions targeting the structural drivers of unhealthy needed prevent these illnesses, including nutrition labelling regulations that create healthier food environments. Yet, implementation remains slow uneven. One explanation for highlights role politics, powerful i...

As with physical conditions, bipolar disorder is likely to be impacted by diet and nutrition. Patients with bipolar disorder have been noted to have relatively unhealthy diets, which may in part be the reason they also have an elevated risk of metabolic syndrome and obesity. An improvement in the quality of the diet should improve a bipolar patient's overall health risk profile, but it may also...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus, driven by overweight and obesity linked to unhealthy diets, is the fastest-growing non-communicable disease in Australia. Halting the rise of diabetes will require a paradigm shift from personal to shared responsibility, with greater accountability from Australian governments and the food industry. It will also require governments to try something different to the prev...

Poor diets are responsible for more of the global burden disease than sex, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco combined. Without good health, food security, nutrition, development is unsustainable. How grown, distributed, processed, marketed, sold determines which foods available, affordable, acceptable within local cultural context. These factors guide choices, influencing quality people’s diets, henc...

The rapid rise of obesity during the past decades has coincided with a profound shift of our living environment, including unhealthy dietary patterns, a sedentary lifestyle, and physical inactivity. Genetic predisposition to obesity may have interacted with such an obesogenic environment in determining the obesity epidemic. Growing studies have found that changes in adiposity and metabolic resp...

The propensity to indulge in unhealthy eating and overconsumption of palatable food is a crucial determinant in the rising prevalence of obesity in today's society. The tendency to consume palatable foods in quantities that exceed energy requirements has been linked to an addiction-like process. Although the existence of 'food addiction' has not been conclusively proven, evidence points to alte...