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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply"”.
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Cost Factor Food Waste in Swiss Hospitals. A case study on food service processes to develop a food service optimisation tool for facility management
… The need for more transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in Swiss hospitals puts facility management departments into the position to act. One action might be seen in optimising processes. And one of these processes is the food service process, which ranks second in terms of costs. This …
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Nutritional status assessment of the technical and vocational students' community in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has developed a special feeding program for the students at its institutions. The effects of this program on the nutritional and health status of these students have not been evaluated yet, and since no …
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The Role of Resveratrol and Sirtuin1 in Skeletal Muscle Under a Nutrient Stress
Dietary restriction (DR) is the only known nutritional manipulation that can increase both lifespan and healthspan in a variety of species. Underlying these increases are improvements in metabolic health and reductions in cancer incidence. Despite these physiological improvements, the regulation of …
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CARBOHYDRATES, LIPIDS AND BIOMARKERS OF TRADITIONAL AND EMERGING CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK FACTORS
… investigate whether carbohydrates (CHO) or fats, and in particular saturated fats (SFA) have differential effects on cardiometabolic (CM) risk by examining potential links between these macronutrients and surrogate markers of CM risk. This broad aim was approached by two studies. The first study …
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Non-Invasive and Invasive Assessment of Carbohydrate Intakes and Muscle Glycogen Utilisation in Rugby League and AFL
… muscle glycogen availability for both endurance and high-intensity intermittent exercise performance has been recognised for several decades. The measurement of muscle glycogen in human skeletal muscle has traditionally been performed through the invasive muscle biopsy technique. However, recent …
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GROWING, BUILDING AND REPAING ELITE RUGBY PLAYERS: Nutritional and Energetic Considerations
… repeated multiple times during training and match play, thus requiring high amounts of lean mass. To cope with such demands the pre-season period is typically used to grow and build players’ to elicit improvements in body composition profiles, ready for the start of the season. …
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Gastrointestinal Function, Damage and Symptoms During Exercise and the Potential Therapeutic Role of Probiotic Supplementation
… events including; cyclists, triathletes and marathon runners, although there is a large estimated range of between 4–96% of participants affected (Costa et al., 2017a). Two potential causes of exercise-associated GI symptoms are exercise-induced increases in GI permeability and damage, …
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THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF AN INDUSTRY SPECIFIC NUTRITION-EDUCATION PLATFORM IN PROFESSIONAL HORSERACING
… jockey diet that facilitates health and performance, dangerous weight-making behaviours are widely maintained. Jockey nutrition education has been cited as lacking and in need of development. Through a mixed-methods paradigm, and use of behaviour change theory, specifically the …
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Effects of Tea on Peripheral and Cerebral Micro- and Macrovascular Function in Humans
… CVD encompasses pathologies of the vascular tree and heart, including, for example, peripheral artery disease, coronary heart disease and ischaemic stroke. Atherosclerosis is the primary pathological process leading to CVD and is characterised by a multifactorial pathophysiology that first …
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NUTRITIONAL HABITS OF ACADEMY PLAYERS AT A SINGLE ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB
Within youth soccer high training and match loads warrant appropriate nutritional attention, although research assessing the nutritional intake and habits of youth soccer players is scarce. This thesis aimed to investigate habits and explore experiences of dietary intake methods in an English …
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A study to evaluate the nutritional habits of year 6 children, before and after a nutrition-based intervention: The CHANGE! (Children's Health, Activity, and Nutrition: Get Educated!) Project.
Poor nutrition and impaired dietary intakes are associated with certain chronic disease states such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. There have been a number of school-based, nutrition-focused interventions which have been used to measure and determine healthy eating behaviours in …
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Investigations in to the physiological and metabolic demands of elite rugby players: understanding how best to fuel the athlete
… placed on players possessing high lean body-mass and low body-fat. After an 8-12 week pre-season focused on physiological adaptations, emphasis shifts towards optimizing competitive performance and recovery through periodising player’s diets and training. In Chapter 4 the physiological demands and …
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AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY IN LIVERPOOL OF PREGNANT WOMEN WITH A BMI ≥ 35kg/m2 REGARDING DIETARY INTAKE, LIFESTYLE AND LIVED EXPERIENCE
… is on the increase, compromising both maternal and foetal health. Previous intervention studies have been designed to limit the amount of gestational weight gain but in the absence of UK guidelines relating to optimum weight change in obese pregnancies and the negative experiences of obese women …
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The Role of n-3 Fatty Acids in Cardiometabolic Risk
… contains n-3 fatty acids as phospholipids and triglycerides, astaxanthin and related carotenoid pigments, and has been proposed as a more effective alternative than triglyceride oils. Some foods rich in n-3-LCPUFA, including prawns, also contain cholesterol; concern regarding possible …
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The effects of the CHANGE! intervention on children's physical activity and health
Low childhood physical activity levels, and high paediatric overweight and obesity levels, carry a considerable burden to health including cardiometabolic disease, low fitness, and reduced psychosocial well-being. Numerous school- based physical activity interventions have been conducted with …
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Prediction of Water Activity in Cured Meat using Microwave Spectroscopy
… weighing scales, which is a time-consuming and impractical technique. Thus, a novel method is required to simplify the process by implementing an online monitoring technique. In this work, a set of microwave sensors were modelled using High Frequency Structure Simulation Software and then …
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Applying evolutionary principles to the obesity problem and other issues in public health
… a complex condition that affects all age groups and socioeconomic strata and places significant burdens on health and social care systems in both developed and developing countries. Overeating and a lack of exercise, along with smoking and high alcohol use, are the most common causes of …
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Addressing childhood obesity in ethnic minority populations
… programme that focuses upon physical activity, nutrition and behaviour change in families (Watson et aI., 2011). However, monitoring data has suggested an unrepresentatively low proportion of ethnic minority families who are referred to GOALS choose to access the service. Therefore the aim of …
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