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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Fruit consumption"”.
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THE GOOD FOOD JUNCTION INTERVENTION: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF FOOD INSECURITY AND VEGETABLE AND FRUIT CONSUMPTION
… on household food insecurity, and vegetable and fruit consumption of patrons. Second, assessing the dose (frequency of shopping)-response (household food insecurity or vegetable and fruit consumption) of the intervention. Third, to examine the relationship between household food insecurity and …
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Breast Cancer Prevention Educational Interventions in Young Women : A Systematic Review
… the role of physical activity, vegetables and fruit consumption, and alcohol consumption for breast cancer prevention. We have very little confidence in the effects of educational interventions on adolescent women’s behaviours, such as of physical activity, alcohol consumption, and vegetables …
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Pink and Dude Chefs: Effectiveness of an After-School Nutrition Knowledge and Culinary Skills Program for Middle School Students to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
… choices of healthful foods through increased fruit and vegetable intake.</p> <p>Pink and Dude Chefs (PDC) is an afterschool nutrition education and culinary skills program for middle-school adolescents aged 11-14 years. This project aimed to improve eating behavior in participants by …
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School wellness policy strength, nutrition-related behaviors, and weight outcomes among high school students: an ecological study
… state-level data on overweight and obesity, fruit and vegetable consumption, soda consumption, and physical activity were collected from the Youth Risk and Behavior Surveillance Survey of high school students in 2023. Using the National Cancer Institute’s 2022 Classification of Laws with …
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Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Hispanics in New York City
… hypothesized to be positively associated with fruit consumption, vegetable consumption, physical activity, and hypertension medication adherence and negatively associated with alcohol consumption. Hypotheses related to fruit consumption (p<0.05), vegetable consumption (p<0.05), and physical …
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Health Promotion in Multiple Domains: Capitalizing on the Spillover Effect
… behaviors, such as physical activity and food consumption choices, play a critical role in the development of chronic diseases and ultimately mortality. Optimally, multiple health-related behaviors are changed to reduce risk rather than targeting only one risk behavior. The purpose of the …
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Meta-analysis in cancer epidemiology
… on breast cancer and vegetables and fruit consumption was described to present a methodology used on meta-analysis in Epidemiology. Meta-analysis confirmed the association between intake of vegetables (RR=0.74; 95%CI 0.65-0.84) and, to a lesser extent, fruit and breast cancer risk …
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Biomonitoring polybrominated diphenyl ethers in lactating women
… and age (r = 0.36 p = 0.02), saturated fat consumption (r = 0.31 p = 0.05), and the home model (r = 0.51 p = 0.004). There was a negative association between PBDE levels (Sigma and BDE-47) and fruit consumption (r = 0.36 p = 0.02, SigmaPBDE). Our results indicate that PBDE levels in breast …
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The Influence of Human Disturbance on Avian Frugivory and Seed Dispersal in a Neotropical Rainforest
… avian frugivory and seed dispersal, bird-fruit interactions that facilitate plant reproduction. On Tobago (West Indies), I compared patterns of frugivory in three adjacent rainforest habitats along a gradient of increasing disturbance: primary forest in a reserve, unprotected intermediate …
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Modifying Diet and Exercise in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study
… minutes of physical activity and servings of fruits and vegetables eaten daily in people with MS. Methods: Participants were provided with a Fitbit device, Fitbit Aria Scale, and a premium subscription to the Lose It! application. Program recommendations included eating 1200 – 1500 calories a …
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Consumer perception and behaviour towards tropical fruits in Belgium
… and growing importance consumers attach to fruit in the diet lead to an increasing demand for various tropical fruits in Europe. Also food industries are making greater use of novel tropical fruits to meet the growing interest in innovations in healthy food products. The introduction of food …
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Indigenous knowledge, variation in morphology, nutritional composition and genetics of Strychnos spinosa morphotypes
… Indigenous uses of S. spinosa included direct fruit consumption; development of local and nutrient dense food products and drinks, such as fermented maize meal (umBhantshi), fermented porridge (amaHewu), alcohol, juice, and jam; various medicines; as well as for homestead protection, livestock …
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Implementation of a multi-component school lunch environmental change intervention to improve child fruit and vegetable intake: a mixed-methods study
… of environmental change strategies on children’s fruit and vegetable selection and consumption behaviors in school lunch, and implementation metrics and qualitative interviews were used to understand the relationship between fidelity, acceptability, and feasibility, and the intervention’s efficacy …
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Food habits of adolescents (16-19 years) in the Manzini region, Swaziland
… seems to have been a progressive shift in food consumption patterns characterised by a move away from the traditional to a more Western-orientated food culture. This transition in food patterns is due to various social, economic and cultural changes that are closely associated with urbanisation, …
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Orang-utan feeding behaviour in Sabangau, Central Kalimantan
… for both African apes and orang-utans in mast-fruiting dipterocarp forests, but, to date, no studies of this type have been completed on orang-utans in non-masting forests, which experience more muted fluctuations in fruit availability. Such studies may be instructive in understanding whether …
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Vegetable intake and head and neck cancer
… an increasing focus on the beneficial effects of fruits and vegetables on cancer survival, we still know very little about how the burden of these post-treatment symptoms may influence HNC patients’ vegetable intake. Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma cancer (OPSCC), a subtype of HNC, has …
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Phenology and frugivory of large-fruited species in northern New Zealand and the impacts of introduced mammals
… thesis investigated the reproductive phenology, fruit features, dispersal and seed predation of native New Zealand fleshy-fruited species, concentrating mainly on fruits larger than 10-mm in diameter borne by trees. There are several species with large tree-borne fruit in New Zealand and they …