Chinese children at a crossroads: influence of family socioeconomic factors on diet patterns.

abstract：:Despite strong evidence of the prevalence of food insecurity in adults and households with children in different areas of Iran, the prevalence of child-specific food insecurity in Iran and especially in Tabriz has not been evaluated. Therefore, the objective of the current study is to evaluate the prevalence of food i...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Alipour B,Abbasalizad Farhangi M,Asghari S,Amirkhizi F,Dahri M,Abedimanesh N,Farsad-Naimi A,Hojegani S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the influence of family solidarity, community structure, information access, social capital, and socioeconomic status on the extent of nutrition and health knowledge (NHK) among primary household meal planners. In turn, we pose the question: does this knowledge influence dietary decision making...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Moxley RL,Jicha KA,Thompson GH

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breakfast consumption is of utmost importance for adolescents to attain nutritional adequacy. The association of breakfast skipping with overall nutritional status has been supported with little causal evidences. Therefore, the present investigation was undertaken to examine this conjecture. A total of 500 adolescent ...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Jain D,Grover K,Choudhary M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the use of dashi stock as the most characteristic umami-yielding foodstuff in Japanese culinary practice. While umami is scientifically defined as a taste provided by umami substances (e.g., glutamate), the popular meanings attached to the term umami among Japanese is more complex. The article sh...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Osawa Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food preferences during pregnancy result from a complex set of biocultural interactions with important implications for maternal and child health. This article explores the social context of maternal food choice in marginal environments of East Africa. Biocultural data collected among Turkana and Datoga women living i...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Young AG,Pike IL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor nutrition in adolescent girls poses critical health risks on future pregnancy and birth outcomes especially in developing countries. Our purpose was to assess nutritional status and dietary intake of rural adolescent girls and determine pulse and food intake patterns associated with poor nutritional status. A cro...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Roba AC,Gabriel-Micheal K,Zello GA,Jaffe J,Whiting SJ,Henry CJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal placentophagy, although widespread among mammals, is conspicuously absent among humans cross-culturally. Recently, however, advocates for the practice have claimed it provides human postpartum benefits. Despite increasing awareness about placentophagy, no systematic research has investigated the motivations o...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Selander J,Cantor A,Young SM,Benyshek DC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore how diet diversity differs with agricultural seasons and between households within pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood systems, using variety of foods consumed as a less complex proxy indicator of food insecurity than benchmark indicators like anthropometry and serum nutrients. The study was in the centra...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Mayanja M,Rubaire-Akiiki C,Morton J,Young S,Greiner T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating eating disorders and orthorexia nervosa, especially in the young population, is an important step in taking protective precautions and identifying disease. This study was carried out to determine the relationship of eating disorders and orthorexia nervosa to gender, BMI, and field of study in a populatio...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Sanlier N,Yassibas E,Bilici S,Sahin G,Celik B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:India is a diversified country. Just as the geography, religion, and culture of India are diverse, so are Indians' food habits. Even so, regional heterogeneity in food consumption exists across states. But it may be hypothesized that regional heterogeneity in food consumption across states has been declining. This hyp...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Tripathi A,Srivastava S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined father and child sociodemographic characteristics in relation to fathers' feeding-related parenting strategies and whether their parenting strategies were associated with children's reported fruit and vegetable (FV), weekly fast-food, and daily sugar-sweetened beverage intake among 81 Latino father...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Parada H,Ayala GX,Horton LA,Ibarra L,Arredondo EM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the effects of information on consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for genetically modified food (GMF). We used Vickrey second price experimental auction method for elicitation of consumer WTP for GM potato chips and GM soya-chocolate bar. The sample used in this study was university students from D...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Kajale DB,Becker TC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine the effect of a 6-month in-school nutrition education intervention to improve pulse consumption on weight status of adolescent girls in Ethiopia. At the intervention school, 66 girls received bi-monthly lessons that included recipes and tastings. Girls (n = 66) at the control school had u...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Dansa R,Reta F,Mulualem D,Henry CJ,Whiting SJ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research explores the social distribution of food knowledge in Ribeirão Preto, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Through an analysis of the distribution of individual expertise in regard to the cultural model of food along the dimensions of healthfulness, practicality, and prestige, this research demonstr...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Newkirk CN,Oths KS,Dressler WW,Dos Santos JE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We highlighted gaps in nutritional data for wild game meat and wild caught fish that have a regulated harvesting season in New York State, and examined the possible role that wild game and fish play in current trends towards consumption of local, healthy meat sources. This project is part of larger study that examines...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Tidball MM,Tidball KG,Curtis P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional knowledge and nutritional value of indigenous foods of the Oraon tribal community in Jharkhand, India was explored. Focus group discussions were conducted with adult members to identify commonly consumed indigenous foods. Taxonomic classification and quantitative estimation of nutritive value were conducte...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Ghosh-Jerath S,Singh A,Kamboj P,Goldberg G,Magsumbol MS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drawing on data gathered in the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, this study examined internal and external locus of control, self-esteem, neuroticism, perceived health status, uniqueness, and somatic amplification as correlates of dietary supplement use. With sex, race, and age measures als...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Denham BE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship among socioeconomic status, social support, and food insecurity in a rural Kenyan island community. A cross-sectional random sample of 111 female heads of households representing 583 household members were surveyed in Mfangano Island, Kenya from August to...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Nagata JM,Fiorella KJ,Salmen CR,Hickey MD,Mattah B,Magerenge R,Milner EM,Weiser SD,Bukusi EA,Cohen CR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted in the Ankara Province of Turkey to determine the attitudes of adult consumers toward food consumption and purchasing activities. The data were collected by conducting face-to-face interviews with 700 adults working in ministries (government office) to fill in a questionnaire prepared especial...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Uçar A,Ozdoğan Y,Ozçelik AÖ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the availability, preference, and consumption of indigenous forest foods in Uluguru North (UNM) and West Usambara Mountains (WUM) of Tanzania. Data collection techniques involved focus group discussion, structured questionnaires, and botanical identification. Results revealed (1) there were 114 indigen...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Msuya TS,Kideghesho JR,Mosha TC

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores foods talked about and chosen in the education of Swedish Home Economics as a relationship between structural processes and agency. Three data sets from observations and focus group interviews with teachers and students were analyzed for food classifications. These were related to a culinary tria...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Höijer K,Hjälmeskog K,Fjellström C

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess whether household food insecurity is associated with delayed or early menarche among girls in the United States. Thirty-six dyadic household interviews were conducted with mothers and adolescent girls. The interviews included a socio-demographic survey, the USDA Six-Item Short Form ...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Burris M,Miller E,Romero-Daza N,Himmelgreen D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to evaluate seasonal patterns of household food insecurity, dietary diversity, and household characteristics on wasting and stunting among children in households followed for 1 year in the drought-prone areas of Sidama, Ethiopia. A cohort study design was employed. Data were collected on the p...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Belayneh M,Loha E,Lindtjørn B

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the perceived connections between culture and food practices among Latino pre-adolescents (n = 17) and their parents (n = 15) through semi-structured interviews. Results show that pre-adolescents have formed perceptions concerning the association between their eating behaviors and cultural backgrou...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Fuster M,Weindorf S,Mateo KF,Barata-Cavalcanti O,Leung MM

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of orthorexia nervosa in dietitians, as assessed by administering ORTO-15, Eating Attitudes Test-40 (EAT-40) and Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (MOCI). Our study included 117 dietitians (Ankara). Orto-15 test scores below 40 points was considered indic...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Asil E,Sürücüoğlu MS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of human placentophagy, the maternal consumption of the afterbirth, is puzzling given its ubiquity and probable adaptive value in other mammals. We propose that human fire use may have led to placentophagy avoidance in our species. In our environment of evolutionary adaptedness, gravid women would likely h...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Young SM,Benyshek DC,Lienard P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores food preparation behaviors, including types of food prepared, methods of preparation, and frequency of preparation of low-income urban African American youth ages 9-15 in Baltimore City (n = 289) and analyzes a potential association to diet quality as measured through Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Sattler M,Hopkins L,Anderson Steeves E,Cristello A,Mccloskey M,Gittelsohn J,Hurley K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses are the largest group of direct health providers and can serve as role models for their patients. In this cross sectional study we assessed the relationship among physical activity and barriers, shift duty, elevated BMI, and selected eating habits among 362 non-Saudi female nurses in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Resul...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Almajwal AM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food-based community organizations (FBCO) have positive impacts on community health, yet little is known about best practices that facilitate organization sustainability. To identify strategies among FBCOs used to facilitate member engagement/retention, reach future members/participants, and support organizational gro...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Poulos NS,Golaszewski NM,Laska MN,Pasch KE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine dietary practices and meal patterns among Malaysian overweight and obese school children at baseline. This study was part of a school-based obesity intervention study, My Body is Fit and Fabulous at School (MyBFF@school). It involved 1045 primary and 1041 secondary overweight and obese sc...

journal_title：Ecology of food and nutrition

authors： Selamat R,Raib J,Abdul Aziz NA,Zulkafly N,Ismail AN,W Mohamad WNA,Nasruddin NIN,Jalaludin MY,Md Zain F,Ishak Z,Yahya A,Mokhtar AH

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00