BACKGROUND This study evaluates the changes in Spain between 2006 and 2012, of school-based policies encouraging healthy eating and the undertaking of physical activity (PA). METHODS A longitudinal study was undertaken comprising 277 representative schools from all the regions of Spain. The questionnaires were completed by the school management board. An indicator for school policies on PA wa...

Background This editorial introduces a revised and refreshed scope for Nutrition Journal, one of BioMed Central’s open access journals. Diet is among the leading risk factors for morbidity and mortality globally [1]. This signals the need for highquality policy-relevant nutrition research to advance the evidence base on strategies to promote and support healthy eating, as well as effective diss...

Human life expectancy has been increasing steadily for almost two centuries and is now approximately double what it was at the beginning of the Victorian era. This remarkable demographic change has been accompanied by a shift in disease prevalence so that age is now the major determinant of most common diseases. The challenge is to enhance healthy ageing and to reduce the financial and social b...

BACKGROUND Health recommendations advocating increased fish consumption need to be placed in the context of the potential collapse of global marine capture fisheries. METHODS Literature overview. RESULTS In economically developed countries, official healthy eating advice is to eat more fish, particularly that rich in omega-3 oils. In many less economically developed countries, fish is a key...

The “global (world) food problem” in this study refers to the ability of humanity fully provide itself with vital good quality and accordance physiological norms (healthy diet) while maintaining ecological balance (preventing irreversible changes human environment). last condition - principle “sustainable development”, was proposed about fifty years ago underlies almost all modern concepts deve...

Introduction: In our society, Mediterranean Diet (MD) eating habits are currently being lost. Promoting them and learning them is a competency that has to be developed in groups of young people, such as college students, especially correct hydration intake, whose benefits are not only physiological but cognitive as well. Furthermore, worthy of note is the importance of instruction, through Heal...

objective: to evaluate the importance of observing healthy habits by pregnant women that influences different aspects of mother and fetus health, we assessed the change in dietary behavior, and cigarette smoking after distributing the guidelines among 485 prenatal care patients. | materials and methods: the subjects were pregnant women who enrolled in health care centers of tehran university fr...

Background: Diet plays a crucial role in the regulation of chronic inflammation. The sparse evidence available in adult populations indicates that diet quality is linked to the dietary inflammatory potential; however, this association has not been established in youth. Design: Data were obtained from a representative national sample of 2889 children and young people in Spain, aged 6-24 years. T...