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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Lifestyle choices"”.
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LIFESTYLE CHOICES RELATED TO FOOD CONSUMPTION AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DEPRESSION
… of foods on the basis of health, spirituality, lifestyle, and moral decisions, is a practice that dates to 1066 A.D. However, with social media being as influential as it is, one might believe dieting is a new obsession or at least an obsession to which popular culture is returning. Despite …
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Successful cognitive aging: Implications of early Alzheimer's disease detection, lifestyle choices, and environmental factors
… fitness and engaging in an active lifestyle by illustrating benefits from these variables to memory performance and pathways in the hippocampal memory system. The implications and inter-relatedness of these studies on successful cognitive aging is discussed in chapter six, including …
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Individual Resting Metabolic Rate and Nutrition Education: Does This Knowledge Lead individuals into Making Healthier Lifestyle Choices?
<p>Introduction: Promoting healthier lifestyle choices to college aged individuals is important since the choices they make during early adult years will affect them later in life. Roughly 27% to 35% of college students are overweight (BMI 25929.9 kg/m2) or obese (BMI >30 kg/m2) and only 20% …
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A socio-cultural study investigating the influences on food and lifestyle choices, and the cultural transition, of British Bangladeshis living in Tower Hamlets East London
… that it is the interaction between an altered lifestyle, associated with economic development and urbanisation, which has triggered this massive increase in the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes. Genetic causes, and poor foetal and infant nutrition, are also seen as contributory factors. Central to …
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Empirical Assessment of Risk Factors: How Online and Offline Lifestyle, Social Learning, And Social Networking Sites Influence Crime Victimization
… study is to examine how our online and offline lifestyle choices can contribute to our risk of becoming a sexual crime victim. A random sample of college students from a Massachusetts college was used to gather the necessary information. This survey data was analyzed based on major theoretical …
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The influence of participation in the Healthy Choices program for community dwelling individuals with serious mental illness
… life (QoL). With the creation of the <em>Healthy Choices</em> program the principal investigator (PI) examined how participationin a community-based healthy living program affects perception of QoL in individuals with serious mental illness. The <em>HealthyChoices</em> program is a community-based …
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Instructional Messaging to Support Diet Management in Young Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Text Message Intervention
… young adults. The disease is often attributed to lifestyle choices, such as poor diet and inactivity. Conversely, lifestyle choices can contribute to improvement in its management and subsequent health outcomes. Through multiple research phases, I developed and employed instructional text messages …
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Adolescent Participation in Traditional Martial Arts: Effects of Training on Risk Behaviors and Psychological Wellbeing
… in which many youth begin to make health and lifestyle choices that have a significant impact on overall wellbeing as they transition from childhood into young adulthood. Physical activity appears to be linked to making other healthy lifestyle choices including non-engagement in risk behaviors …
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Afflictions of tradition: trends and consequences of traditional African American foodways
… Since these conditions are related largely to lifestyle choices, such as diet, it is important to highlight the historical social significance of African American foodways, known as soul food. Using personal narratives from former slaves and individuals recollecting American life during …
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Differences in food intake, nutrition knowledge, and fitness assessment measurements in high school students who have completed the nutricise 4 life program and students who have not
… and motivation/confidence to make healthier lifestyle choices would be improved in students participating in the N4L group compared to a control group. Twenty-eight students in 10th to 12th grade from 2 high schools in Pennsylvania participated. This quasi-experimental trial collected data …
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The place of complete streets: aligning urban street design practices with pedestrian and cycling priorities
… people, regardless of age, income, abilities, or lifestyle choices to use streets. Canadian municipal transportation practices are largely based on conventional approaches, where the movement of motor vehicles is a priority. The purpose of this practicum is to identify ways that selected …
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Post-Course Environmental Behavior Change of Wild Rockies Field Institute Participants
… further investment in academic and career goals, lifestyle choices, empowerment, ethical development and political activity. Participants reported these outcomes were influenced by a variety of course factors such as course instructors, student group, guest speakers, and time for reflection in the …
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Post-Course Environmental Behavior Change of Wild Rockies Field Institute Participants
… further investment in academic and career goals, lifestyle choices, empowerment, ethical development and political activity. Participants reported these outcomes were influenced by a variety of course factors such as course instructors, student group, guest speakers, and time for reflection in the …
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Effect of nutrition education on food and beverage choices of adolescent female dancers
<p>Lifestyle choices affect the risk of obesity and ill-health among youth. This study determined whether providing nutrition education to adolescent females enrolled in dance classes influenced their beverage and food choices. It was hypothesized that providing six 10-minute nutrition education …
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Novel Diagnostic Approaches for Genetic and Environmental Sources of Mitochondrial Dysfunction
… While genetics plays a role in these conditions, lifestyle choices and exposure to toxins also significantly contribute to their development. Unfortunately, early-stage diagnosis can be difficult due to overlapping symptoms with other diseases. Developing innovative therapies that can prevent or …
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Education of Hypertensive Young Adults to Improve Health Habits: A Systematic Review [paper]
… studies were improvements in self-efficacy and lifestyle habits. A conceptual framework was utilized as a guide to research and all articles studied were evaluated based on this method. Results: Evidence from research showed that there is overall improvement in lifestyle changes and health …
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Perceptions and Misperceptions of Health Among Different Groups in the United States
… health. Through this process they can impact the lifestyle choices of those people towards a healthier way of living.
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Paternal diet and exercise epigenetically program energy expenditure and glucose metabolism in mouse offspring
… are now finding the detrimental effects of poor lifestyle choices, such as consuming a high-fat diet, have heritable consequences that persist transgenerationally by way of epigenetic modifications. The epigenome is yet another tier of genetic regulation, one that is capable of producing …
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