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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"public health nutrition"”.
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A New Food Diplomacy: Participatory Action Research Findings of a Food System Approach to Public Health Nutrition
… greater convergence can facilitate better public health nutrition and positive food system change. It starts by combining production and place of consumption in the form of calculating the Welsh and UK population’s fruit and vegetable requirement. It explains that the requirement was shared …
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Public health nutrition intervention to enhance healthy eating and lifestyle modification among Lebanese women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
… aim of the study was to assess the efficacy of public health nutrition intervention designed to enhance healthy eating and lifestyle modification among PCOS patients attended the obstetrics and gynecology clinic at the American University of Beirut Medical Centre (AUB-MC) in Beirut, Lebanon. A …
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Public health nutrition intervention to delay the progression of HIV to AIDS among people living with HIV (PLWHIV) in Abuja, Nigeria
… and its scourge has had a devastating impact on health, nutrition, food security and overall socioeconomic development in countries that have been greatly affected by the disease. The engagement of HIV/AIDS with under nutrition form a symbiotic relationship and one increases the prevalence and …
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Public health nutrition intervention to evaluate the nutritional impact of the Ghana School Feeding Programme in Lower Manya Krobo (LMK) district, and enhancing its effectiveness through a nutrition intervention
… interventions like many other donor dependent nutrition interventions in low-income countries have often been described to be ineffective or unsustainable because they are designed with donor specific nutritional interests, which often do not reflect the indigenous dietary preference and …
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Exploring the impact of lifestyle and physical fitness on childhood overweight and obesity prevention in schoolchildren: a quasi-experimental study assessing the effectiveness of a multimodal intervention in the province of Cádiz. The PREVIENE-CÁDIZ Study
Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern worldwide, with significant implications for children's health and well-being. This International Doctoral Thesis aims to study the efficacy of a comprehensive intervention encompassing individual, school, and community-based approaches aimed at …
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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
… Genetic causes, and poor foetal and infant nutrition, are also seen as contributory factors. Central to this thesis was the preposition that obesity and Type 2 diabetes are largely preventable and amenable to a wide range of public health prevention strategies. Too often a reductionist …
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Modelling malnutrition among under-five-year-old children in Ghana
Childhood malnutrition is a real-life and a chronic problem and one of the global major public health challenges, especially in developing countries like Ghana. Several attempts from governmental and non-governmental organizations to address the problem have fallen below expectation. It is …
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An exploration of the calcium metabolic system in pregnancy and public health programmes to improve early nutrition in maternal-infant cohorts
… and infancy represent periods of particular nutritional vulnerability, many gaps in the evidence base remain during these life-stages. The research in this thesis was conducted in two phases across three studies in pregnant women and infants. The aim of the first phase was to examine the …
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Exploring Progress, Barriers and Opportunities for the Branded FNV Marketing Campaign to Impact Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation
Unhealthy food and beverage products marketed through diverse media platforms contribute to poor diet quality, obesity, and chronic diseases in the United States (US). Limited empirical research is available on the effectiveness of integrated marketing communications (IMC) and branded media …
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Nutrition literacy: foundations and development of an instrument for assessment
Health literacy has emerged as an area of increasing research focus in the medical literature, yet it has received little attention in the nutrition literature. Registered dietitians (RDs) should be concerned about low health literacy considering its associations with decreased knowledge of disease …
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Increasing self-efficacy with diabetes cooking schools
Dining with Diabetes, a diabetes cooking school program offered through West Virginia University Extension Service, targets dietary self-management and is guided by Social Cognitive Theory. This study compared two convenience samples of persons with diabetes. One group attended the program, …
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Lutein, Zeaxanthin, and Omega-3-fatty acids: Sources, Intakes, Bioavailability, and Associated risk for Age-related Macular Degeneration
… lutein and zeaxanthin as beneficial to eye health. Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), one of the leading causes of blindness in Australia and globally, has been associated with inadequate dietary lutein (L) and zeaxanthin (Z) intakes. This study aimed to assess dietary L+Z intakes and …
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Nutrition Education and Community Advocacy at Marin Health and Human Services
… it holds a great deal of variation. An effective health intervention in one neighborhood will not work in another, more importantly, there may not be the same health issue from one neighborhood to the next. To address issues of access, education and prevention, Marin Health and Human Services …
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A childhood obesity prevention initiative: Learning from parents by identifying knowledge, attitudes and barriers related to childhood obesity
… energy expenditure cause obesity over time. Health problems caused by childhood obesity are affecting children and adults. Parents and caregivers are often responsible for providing meals and shaping lifestyles of children. Parents were recruited from childcare centers in Texas and asked to …
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A PILOT STUDY: EFFECTIVENESS OF BASIC COOKING SKILLS AND NUTRITION EDUCATION FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES AND CAREGIVERS
… developmental disabilities (ID/DD); however, few health promotion programs target this population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a nutrition and cooking education program by describing the participation within a sample of five adults with ID/DD and seven accompanying homecare staff. …
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Evaluating and informing reformulation strategies to achieve healthier Australian diets
Unhealthy diets are a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are the leading cause of death and disability in Australia and globally. The World Health Organization recommends a suite of policies to address diet-related NCDs, including governmental regulation of the food …
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Ultra-processed foods and cardiometabolic health
… food consumption (UPF) and cardiometabolic health at the individual and the population-level while adhering to methodological principles such as incorporating and presenting a multiverse of statistical results and interpreting statistical hypothesis testing in a non-dichotomous way. I …