scholarly journals Eating Habits of Children and Adolescents with Epilepsy in Latvia

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 350-356
Author(s):  
Zane Vīksna ◽  
Renāte Ligere
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Protein A ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Milk Products ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Epileptic Children ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Fried Potatoes

Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate the eating habits of epileptic children and adolescents. Forty one patients (12 girls and 14 boys aged 0-10 years, and 10 girls and 5 boys aged 11-18 years) were enrolled in the study. A survey on consumption rate of different dietary products was conducted. The diet groups considered were carbohydrates, fat, protein, fibre and liquid. We found that 35-58% of patients aged 0-10 years used soda drinks, juices and popcorn regularly. The proportion was more than two times in adolescents. Consumption of sweets in both age groups was 83-100%. Half of children aged 0-10 years said that they ate chips and fried potatoes regularly and 80-100% of adolescents consumed these products at least once a week. Half of the boys and almost all younger girls consumed various milk products daily; adolescent epileptic boys consumed milk products two times more than girls. Among older girls, 40% did not drink milk. The youngest girls consumed meat and fish 1.5 to 3.5 times more than boys, while the number of boys consuming these products increased with age. It was estimated that 75-100% of patients ate fruits and vegetables daily. Only two children and two adolescents were found to drink lots of water. In conclusion, children and adolescents with epilepsy preferred meals rich in carbohydrates and fat, rather than protein; a high number of the evaluated patients drank soda drinks and juices several times a week; only a few had intake of water daily; and all patients ate fruits and vegetables daily, thus compensating unhealthy eating habits.

scholarly journals Changes in Eating Habits among Displaced and Non-Displaced University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5369
Author(s):  
Rita Bárbara ◽  
Cíntia Ferreira-Pêgo
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Coffee Consumption ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Sugary Drinks ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Fish Ingestion ◽  
Displaced Students

Nowadays the younger generations are moving their food habits from the traditional diet to a Western diet, which is low in fruits and vegetables and high in fat and sugary drinks. University students are a particularly vulnerable population once, with the entrance to university, they are subjected to new influences and responsibilities; in particular, those who live far from their parents’ houses are more predisposed to unhealthy eating habits. To assess the influence that admission to university has had on the frequency of intake of certain foods and meals as well as their adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), self-administered questionnaires were applied. The sample included 97 Portuguese students, with an average age of 21 years, a normal weight, according to body mass index, and an average MedDiet adherence. Most of the individuals did not smoke and the majority did not drink coffee. It was also observed that displaced students consume fast food more frequently compared to the period before they start university. Fish ingestion decreased and coffee consumption increased, in the same group, after starting their university studies.

Sedentary behavior in children and adolescents: an update of the systematic review of the Brazil’s Report Card

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Samara Silva ◽  
Giseli Minatto ◽  
Alexsandra da Silva Bandeira ◽  
Priscila Cristina dos Santos ◽  
Ana Caroline Ferreira Campos de Sousa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Report Card ◽  
Sitting Time ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Tv Viewing ◽  
Cell Phone Use ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Brazilian Children

Abstract This review updated data on sedentary behavior in Brazilian children and adolescents for the Brazil’s Report Card 4.0. The searching was carried out in eight databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, LILACS, SPORTDiscus, BIREME, Scielo, and Google Scholar), based on the the following criteria: original research; samples including Brazilian children and adolescents; to be a observational survey with the prevalence of at least one component of sedentary behavior. In this updated review were included 118 studies (corresponding to 159 papers), being 71 studies (104 papers) previously reviewed in the Report Card 3.0 and 47 studies (55 papers) found in update from 2018 to 2019. Screen time (34.7%) and TV viewing (28.2%) remains the most investigated components, however, two studies investigated cell phone use, and there was an increase in other types of sedentary behavior such as sitting time (from 9% to 25.6%). We found only four studies involving pre-scholars, but four of them covered almost all age groups. Self-reported questionnaire was the instrument more used; however, increased the studies using accelerometers (from 2 to 8 studies). The cut-off point more frequent was 2 hours/day (47.5%), but the use of other measures doubled. Almost 70% of the studies reported that less than 50% (general range: 9.4% to 97.7%) of individuals had < 2 hours/day of sedentary behavior. The updated review found few studies with prescholars and children; using validated instruments; using accelerometers, with standardization of cutoff points, and prevalences very close to what was observed in the previous review.

scholarly journals Promotion of Children Health with Giving Supplement of Rainbow Nutrition: A Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-92
Author(s):  
Sagar Alwadkar ◽  
Pratibha Wankhede ◽  
Mayur Wanjari
Keyword(s):  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Daily Diet

Introduction: "Eat the Rainbow" is an educational approach intended to encourage children to incorporate fruits and vegetables in their daily diet so that they can receive all the foods they need for their health. According to UNICEF, school children are the future generation of tomorrow, the age group from 6 to 12 years is considered the school-age children. They grow steadily but gradually and generally eat four to five times a day, which include snacks. Maintaining their health, development, and growth during this age group is extremely important. These age groups of children face rapid mental and physical development and therefore proper nutrition is very crucial at this point in life. In children, the eating habits developed at birth usually persist into adulthood. Eating habits are influenced by food choices. During this time many dietary habits, likes, and dislikes are established. Parents, friends and especially television media affect their food choices and eating habits.

Food Experiences and Dietary Patterns of International Students at a Canadian University

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Bhanu Pilli ◽  
Joyce Slater
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits

Purpose: Postsecondary students who move to a new country to continue their education experience a drastic shift in food landscape, often resulting in unhealthy dietary adaptations. Methods: This mixed-method study explored the eating experiences and dietary patterns of 30 international students attending a Canadian university. Data were collected through focus groups that were analyzed thematically and dietary records analyzed for compliance with Canada’s Food Guide for Healthy Living (2007). Results: Results showed that many participants want to maintain home country food traditions, yet their new independent living status and novel food environments led to changes in dietary habits. Limited food skills, busy schedules, reduced access to familiar foods, and fast-food environments contributed to unhealthy eating patterns. These perceptions were reflected in the high consumption of “other”, less nutritious foods and low servings of fruits and vegetables, milk products and alternatives, and grain products. Conclusions: These findings show that international university students face dual challenges of transitioning into independent living without sufficient food skills and family supports, and exposure to unfamiliar and unhealthy food environments. Resources need to be developed for newly enrolled international students that emphasize food awareness, food skills, and healthy eating habits.

scholarly journals Obesity and the Mediterranean Diet: A Review of Evidence of the Role and Sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santa D’Innocenzo ◽  
Carlotta Biagi ◽  
Marcello Lanari
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Diet ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Regulatory Instruments ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Dietary Plan

Several different socio-economic factors have caused a large portion of the population to adopt unhealthy eating habits that can undermine healthcare systems, unless current trends are inverted towards more sustainable lifestyle models. Even though a dietary plan inspired by the principles of the Mediterranean Diet is associated with numerous health benefits and has been demonstrated to exert a preventive effect towards numerous pathologies, including obesity, its use is decreasing and it is now being supplanted by different nutritional models that are often generated by cultural and social changes. Directing governments’ political actions towards spreading adherence to the Mediterranean Diet’s principles as much as possible among the population could help to tackle the obesity epidemic, especially in childhood. This document intends to reiterate the importance of acting in certain age groups to stop the spread of obesity and proceeds with a critical review of the regulatory instruments used so far, bearing in mind the importance of the scientific evidence that led to the consideration of the Mediterranean Diet as not just a food model, but also as the most appropriate regime for disease prevention, a sort of complete lifestyle plan for the pursuit of healthcare sustainability.

scholarly journals Obesity in children – A review

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-96
Author(s):  
F Hamid ◽  
R Islam ◽  
PC Ray
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Adult Onset ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity ◽  
Treatment Of Obesity

Childhood obesity is now among the most widespread medical problems affecting children and adolescents living in both developed and developing countries. Approximately 21-24% of children and adolescents are overweight, and another 16-18% is obese. The prevalence of obesity is increasing in all pediatric age groups, in both sexes, and in various ethnic and racial groups. Many factors, including genetics, environment, metabolism, lifestyle, and eating habits, are believed to play a role in the development of obesity. However, more than 90% of cases are idiopathic; less than 10% are associated with hormonal or genetic causes. Obesity has a profound effect on a patient's life. Childhood obesity predisposes to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, liver and renal disease, and reproductive dysfunction. This condition also increases the risk of adult-onset obesity, cardiovascular disease and can create emotional and social problems. Therefore, the prevention and treatment of obesity have emerged as a challenge to the pediatric practitioner. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bmj.v42i3.19004 Bangladesh Med J. 2013 Sept; 42 (3): 92-96

Interaction effects of socioeconomic position in the association between eating location and diet quality in Portuguese children and adolescents: results from the National Food, Nutrition and Physical activity survey 2015-2016

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Pedro Pimenta ◽  
Carla Lopes ◽  
Daniela Correia ◽  
Duarte Torres ◽  
Sara Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Diet Quality ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Significant Interaction Effect ◽  
Eating Pattern ◽  
Socioeconomic Environment ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
24 Hour Recall

Abstract This study aims to evaluate the interaction effect of socioeconomic environment (SEE) in the relationship between the eating location (EL) and diet quality, in children and adolescents. Data included children and adolescents (3-17y) from a National Dietary Survey Sample (IAN-AF 2015/2016, n=987). Dietary intake was obtained by 2-day food diaries (children) or 2-24-hour-recall (adolescents). Participants were classified into four groups of EL: “Home”, “Other homes”, “School” and “Restaurants”. Diet quality was measured as a higher adherence to a healthy eating pattern. A previous developed socioeconomic classification was used, and participants were grouped as belonging to a low socioeconomic environment (LSE) or middle-high socioeconomic environment (MHSE). Linear regression models were used to evaluate the association between EL and diet quality, stratified by the SEE. One-quarter of participants was classified in the “Home” group, 14% in “Other homes”, 17% in “Restaurants” and 45% in “School”. A statistically significant interaction effect was found (p<0.01) for the SEE in the association between eating location and diet quality. After adjustment for potential confounders, in LSE, children and adolescents belonging to “Other homes” (β̂=−2.07; 95%CI:−3.70;−0.44) and “Restaurants” (β̂=−3.31; 95%CI:−5.08;−1.54) had lower scores in the diet quality score, comparing to “Home”. In MHSE, comparing to “Home”, “Restaurants” showed lower diet quality (β̂=−1.56; 95%CI:−2.65;−0.48), while the “School” had better diet quality (β̂=0.90; 95%CI:0.16;1.64). The SEE influences the association between EL and diet quality and, belonging to more disadvantaged SEE, might represent a higher risk of unhealthy eating habits when eating out-of-home compared to when eating at home.

Planning to reach for a rotating rod

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claes von Hofsten ◽  
Katarina Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Reach To Grasp ◽  
Almost All

Abstract. Hand adjustments of 6- and 10-month-old infants and adults were studied as they reach to grasp a rotating rod. It was found that the subjects in all three age groups adjusted the hand prospectively to the rotating rod during the approach of it. They also adjusted the reaches to the rotating rod in such a way that almost all of the grasps were overhand ones as predicted by the endpoint comfort hypothesis. Finally, it was found that the rotation of the hand was made up of movement units as translational movements are, and that the approach units were relatively independent of the rotational ones.

scholarly journals Development of central auditory processes in Polish children and adolescents at the age from 7 to 16 years

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Lewandowska ◽  
Rafał Milner ◽  
Małgorzata Ganc ◽  
Elżbieta Włodarczyk ◽  
Joanna Dołżycka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Students ◽  
Frequency Pattern ◽  
Speech In Noise ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Right Ear Advantage ◽  
The Right ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Auditory Processes

AbstractThere are discrepancies in the literature regarding the course of central auditory processes (CAP) maturation in typically developing children and adolescents. The purpose of the study was to provide an overview of age – related improvement in CAP in Polish primary and secondary school students aged 7–16 years. 180 children/adolescents, subdivided into 9 age categories, and 20 adults (aged 18–24 years) performed the Dichotic Digit Test (DDT), Duration Pattern Test (DPT), Frequency Pattern Test (FPT), Gap Detection Test (GDT) and adaptive Speech-in-Noise (aSpN). The 12-year-olds was retested after w week. We found the age effects only for the DDT, DPT and FPT. In the right ear DDT the 7-year-olds performed more poorly than all groups ≥12. In the left ear DDT both 7- and 8-year-olds achieved less correct responses compared with the 13-, 14-, 15-year-olds and with the adults. The right ear advantage was greater in the 7-year-olds than in the 15-year-olds and adult group. At the age of 7 there was lower DPT and FPT scores than in all participants ≥13 whereas the 8-year-olds obtained less correct responses in the FPT than all age categories ≥12. Almost all groups (except for the 7-year-olds) performed better in the DPT than FPT. The test-retest reliability for all tests was satisfactory. The study demonstrated that different CAP have their own patterns of improvement with age and some of them are specific for the Polish population. The psychoacoustic battery may be useful in screening for CAP disorders in Poland.

scholarly journals Religion: Interrelationships and Opinions in Children and Adolescents. Interaction between Age and Beliefs

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Rafael López Cordero ◽  
Francisca Ruiz Garzón ◽  
Lourdes Medina Martínez ◽  
María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Religious Issue ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

The current trend of secularization seems to be leading to a gradual withdrawal of religion from public spaces. However, in an increasingly internationalized world, it is becoming more and more important to study the roles of religion and religiosity and their potential in relation to dialogue and social conflicts and tensions. Education is a vital field within which to address this religious issue and create an educational dialogue in order to promote coexistence. By following a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study, based on a quasi-experimental methodology with a social–analytical character, our aim is to assess the existing connections between religion, interrelation and opinion in Spanish children and adolescents. Special attention is paid to the interaction between age and beliefs. We carried out our study with the use of a questionnaire distributed to eleven secondary schools, with students aged between 11 and 16 years old, in three regions of southern Spain (Andalusia, Ceuta, and Melilla) characterized by high religious diversity and multiculturalism. The multivariate analysis carried out in this study identifies the effects of variance on the influence of age and religion, highlighting the interaction between the two. It is observed that the youngest students are those who express their opinions about religion the least, while those belonging to younger age groups and majority religions are those who express a greater religious coexistence, with Muslims externalizing their religious condition the most.

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