Dietetic practice in Singapore is mainly applied at the clinical settings, such as hospitals. The main scope of practice is in providing medical nutrition therapy to patients in a multidisciplinary team approach at both inpatient and outpatient clinics. This is delivered in the form of nutrition counseling and nutrition support. Dietitians are also involved in other areas such as conducting nut...

Background: It is important to encourage people participate in physical activities and develop motivational approaches healthy nutrition order maintain a life. This study was conducted examine the relationship between activity levels of university students their attitudes nutrition. Material methods: 392 (153 female 239 male) voluntarily participated study. In study, International Physical Acti...

More effective nutrition education to reach low-income and ethnic minority populations is needed. As part of a project to develop a tailored nutrition education intervention to meet the needs of low-income Hispanics and non-Hispanics, complementary, mixed methods of formative research were used to determine specific characteristics of the target population. The aim was to ensure that the full a...

Food marketing for children is a major concern for public health nutrition and many schools make efforts to increase healthy eating. Food environments surrounding schools in urban areas may undermine these efforts for healthy nutrition within school programs. Our study aim is to describe the nutrition environment within walking distance of schools in terms of food quality and food marketing and...

Personalised nutrition is a novel public health strategy aiming to promote positive diet and lifestyle changes. Tailored dietary physical activity advice may be more appropriate than generalised ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach as it biologically relevant the individual. Information computing technology, smartphones mobile applications have become an integral part of modern life thereby present opp...

Images of nutrition I would like to return to a topic that I mentioned in a previous editorial when commenting on the debate that was going on in the American Institute of Nutrition about whether the word ‘Nutrition’ was any longer appropriate as a description of the science being undertaken by the members of the AIN. Although I would not wish to belittle the genuine scientific issues that were...