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Tags: Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases

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    Subjectively and objectively assessed social and physical environmental corre...

    Background Overweight and low levels of physical activity (PA) in preschoolers are major public health concerns. However, to date only few studies have investigated subjective...
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    Eating behavior and body composition across childhood: a prospective cohort s...

    Background Although many cross-sectional studies reported that children with overweight or obesity show more food approaching and less food avoidant eating behaviors, there is a...
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    Association between whole grain intake and breast cancer risk: a systematic r...

    Background Epidemiological studies have found that high whole grain intake may be associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer. However, the evidence has not been consistent....
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    Self-reported domain-specific and accelerometer-based physical activity and s...

    Background The interpretation of previous studies on the association of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with psychological health is limited by the use of mostly...
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    Physical chronic conditions, multimorbidity and sedentary behavior amongst mi...

    Background Sedentary behavior (SB) is, irrespective of a person’s physical activity levels, associated with a wide range of deleterious outcomes such as diabetes, stroke and...
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    Indicators of the relative availability of healthy versus unhealthy foods in ...

    Background In-store availability of healthy and unhealthy foods may influence consumer purchases. Methods used to measure food availability, however, vary widely. A simple,...
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    Fatty fish intake and attention performance in 14–15 year old adolescents: FI...

    Background Fatty fish is the dominant dietary source of n-3 LCPUFAs but it also contains other micronutrients considered important for brain development and function. To our...
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    Weekday snacking prevalence, frequency, and energy contribution have increase...

    Background There are limited data on the evolution of eating habits, including snacking, in Australia. This study aimed to understand snacking trends among Australian children...
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    Do hedonic- versus nutrition-based attitudes toward food predict food choices...

    Background Implicit and explicit attitudes are potential precursors of food choices and combine affective and cognitive components that can vary in their relative dominance....
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    Western and Modern Mexican dietary patterns are directly associated with inci...

    Background Research has found that diet and dietary patterns are associated with blood pressure and hypertension. Limited research in this area has been conducted in a Mexican...
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    A global systematic scoping review of studies analysing indicators, developme...

    Background National policy approaches to physical activity (PA) promotion and sedentary behaviour (SB) reduction are needed to address rising rates of non-communicable diseases....
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    Associations within school-based same-sex friendship networks of children's p...

    Background Physical activity in children is associated with better physical and mental health but many children do not meet physical activity guidelines. Friendship groups are...
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    A multilevel, multicomponent childhood obesity prevention group-randomized co...

    Background Consumption of foods and beverages rich in sugar remains high across all races and ages in the United States. Interventions to address childhood obesity and decrease...
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    A leukocyte activation test identifies food items which induce release of DNA...

    Background Leukocyte activation (LA) testing identifies food items that induce a patient specific cellular response in the immune system, and has recently been shown in a...
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    Relative validity of a web-based food frequency questionnaire for Danish adol...

    Background: With increased focus on dietary intake among youth and risk of diseases later in life, it is of importance, prior to assessing diet-disease relationships, to examine...
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    Picky eating in Swedish preschoolers of different weight status: application ...

    Background Characteristics of picky eaters of different weight status have not been sufficiently investigated. We used two newly developed screening cut-offs for picky eating in...
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    Priming food intake with weight control cues: systematic review with a meta-a...

    Background A growing number of studies suggest that exposure to cues which are associated with weight control can prime or prompt controlled food intake in tempting food...
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    An activity-friendly environment from the adolescent perspective: a concept m...

    Background In today’s society, few adolescents meet physical activity guidelines and effects of physical activity promoting programmes are disappointing. In studies exploring...
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    Targeted retail coupons influence category-level food purchases over 2-years

    Background Targeted coupons strongly influence purchasing behavior and may represent an innovative approach for improving dietary behaviors. Methods The retail analytics firm,...
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    Six-month adherence to Statin use and subsequent risk of major adverse cardio...

    Background The evidence of adherence to statin decreasing risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) is still lack among patients discharged with acute coronary...