in the case of the elderly who highly depend on family, serious health problems can be caused due to the reduction of family meals. therefore, this study aims to suggest the fundamental data for management of cardiovascular disease, one of the major causes of death in elderly koreans, by investigating the effects of family meal frequency on the risk factors for cardiovascular disease in korean ...

background: this study aimed to assess the relationship between meal frequency with mental distress and violent behavior among a nationally representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. materials and methods: the participants of this national study were 14,880 iranian students with 6 to 18 years of age. they were selected from urban and rural regions of iran by multi-stage cluster ...

objective despite numerous reports on the effects of meal frequency on biochemical parameters such as plasma lipid profile, glucose and insulin, there is almost no study to investigate the influence of meal frequency on immune system. in the present article, for the first time, the effect of meal frequency on complement components c3 and c4, as key components of the complement system, has been ...

background : the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents has increased to a considerable level internationally. one of the most important causes of childhood obesity is the lack of meal frequency. self-efficacy has been considered as one of the most important psychological factors which can affect nutritional behaviors of adolescents in previous studies. thus, the ai...

OBJECTIVES To describe the meal patterns of Jena schoolchildren and their associations with children's weight status and parental characteristics. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Twenty schools in Jena (100,000 inhabitants), south-east Germany. SUBJECTS A total of 2054 schoolchildren aged 7-14 years with information on BMI standard deviation score (BMI-SDS) and weight status (based ...

BACKGROUND Frequent family meals are associated with healthy dietary behaviors and other desirable outcomes in children and adolescents. Therefore, increased knowledge about factors that may increase the occurrence of family meals is warranted. The present study has its focus on the home food environment, and aims to explore potential associations between parent-reported feeding behaviors and c...

OBJECTIVE Family meals are associated with a healthier diet among children and adolescents, but how family meal frequency varies in the U.S. population overall by household food availability and sociodemographic characteristics is not well characterized. DESIGN The U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2010 assessed the frequency of family meals eaten at home in the past ...