Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between food and cooking skills healthy eating attitudes in college students. demographic characteristics, anthropometric measurements, nutritional habits, toward eating, preparation were questioned. 16.2% students have moderate, 63.5% high, 20.3% ideally high eating. While a positive significant correlation was found total score...

The objective was to compare eating attitudes, conceptualized as beliefs, thoughts, feelings, behaviors and relationship with food, of anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED) patients and a group of obese (OBS) without eating disorders (ED). Female patients from an Eating Disorder (ED) Unit with AN (n=42), BN (n=52) and BED (n=53) and from an obesity service ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the role of different forms of threat cues in generating eating behavior among nonclinical women with more or less healthy eating attitudes. METHOD The participants were 60 non-eating-disordered women, divided into those with relatively high and low Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) scores. An ego (self-esteem) threat, a physical threat, or a neutral message was pr...

OBJECTIVE (i) To analyze the eating behaviors and body satisfaction of boys and girls and to examine their mothers' perceptions of these two domains; and (ii) to evaluate eating problem predictors using child body mass index (BMI), self-esteem, and body satisfaction as well as maternal BMI, eating problems, and satisfaction with their child's body. The participants included 111 children (54.1% ...

In this study, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of the Energize Your Life! social-marketing campaign pilot study to improve knowledge, attitudes, and fruit intake among community college students. The authors used a cross-sectional, quasi-experimental, pre- and posttest design. They randomly selected community college students (N = 1,367) and exposed the intervention campus to fruit fair...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the eating attitudes in Israeli Jewish female adolescents. METHODS A representative sample of 1270 females in grades 7-12 from five different Israeli schools from five different residential areas were assessed by EAT-26. RESULTS Of the total sample, 19.5% were identified as having abnormal eating attitudes. In terms of age, the 16 year olds were found to have the sign...

OBJECTIVE The question-behaviour effect (QBE) refers to the finding that measuring behavioural intentions increases performance of the relevant behaviour. This effect has been used to change health behaviours. The present research asks why the QBE occurs and evaluates one possible mediator-attitude accessibility. DESIGN University staff and students (N = 151) were randomly assigned to an inte...

OBJECTIVE The literature on later age of onset (LAO) in women with eating disorders is scarce. We compared the severity of eating disorders, eating disorder subtype, and personality profiles in a clinical sample of consecutively assessed women with eating disorders with later age of onset (LAO, > = 25 years) to women with typical age of onset (TAO, <25 years). METHOD All eating disorder patie...

Background: Smoke-free eating places are effective in reducing exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS). Eateries should comply with implementing smoke-free eating-places under the Control of Tobacco Products Regulations 2018 all open-air reduce tobacco consumption achieve plan having Malaysia free by 2045. Objectives: To determine impact perceived knowledge on control law and SHS attitude support pr...