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The gap between behavioral risk status and willingness to change behavior among healthcare professionals
2018
Aims: This study explored behavioral health risk factors among healthcare professionals and investigated the at-risk persons’ satisfaction with their health habits and ongoing change attempts. Methods: The study was based on a cross-sectional web-based survey directed at the nurses and physicians ( N = 1233) in Finnish healthcare. Obesity, low physical activity, smoking, and risky alcohol drinking were used as behavioral health risk factors. Results: In all, 70% of the participants had at least one behavioral risk factor, and a significant number of at-risk persons were satisfied with their health habits and had no ongoing change process. Good self-rated health and good self-rated work abil…
La educación alimentaria de los niños
2020
A lo largo de los años, se ha producido un aumento progresivo del número de personas con sobrepeso y obesas de todas las edades y realidades sociales en Europa y en todo el mundo, lo que hace de la obesidad uno de los problemas de salud pública más acuciantes. La obesidad es un problema que no perdona ni siquiera a los niños más pequeños. Los últimos datos publicados muestran que los niños de los países del sur de Europa son los que tienen mayores problemas de peso (entre el 18% y el 21%); en Italia uno de cada cinco niños es obeso. Esos datos dieron lugar a una investigación en Ribera, un país de Sicilia (Italia), destinada a promover la mejora de la nutrición infantil mediantelasensibiliz…
Exploring use of activity monitors for patients with obesity during weight-loss treatment - a qualitative study
2021
Background Obesity is a major health concern in western countries. In Norway, patients with obesity can attend weight-loss programmes, which focus on changes in dietary and physical activity habits. Use of self-monitoring is advocated when changing dietary and physical activity habits for adults with obesity. This study aimed to explore the experiences of patients with obesity who used activity monitors while attending a weight-loss programme. Methods Patients with body mass index (BMI) > 35 kg/m2 with weight related comorbidities or a BMI > 40 kg/m2 referred to an intermittent weight-loss programme were recruited into this study. They were introduced to one of three different activity moni…
Food Habits of the Javelin Sand Boa Eryx jaculus (Linnaeus 1758; Serpentes, Erycidae) in Sicily, Italy
2021
The Javelin Sand Boa, Eryx jaculus, is reported to be a predator of mammals, lizards and their eggs, and occasionally of birds and invertebrates, but data on its diet are scarce and fragmentary. Here we describe some aspects of the feeding behavior of E. jaculus on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. A total of 132 individual snakes were examined. Prey remains were found in 43% of them, both in their feces (82.5%) and gut contents (17.5%). The number of snakes observed and their feeding rate decreased in August, probably as a result of the relatively higher temperatures. Feeding rate increases were observed in adult females in September, perhaps to enhance body reserves before hibernation. …
Alimentación y salud en la Valencia medieval. Teorías y prácticas
2013
The aim of this article is to provide an initial survey about the relationship between food habits and health in a Mediterranean city during the Late Middle Ages, by comparing medical treatises, gastronomic recipes and the archival sources that tell us about the actual expenses in food. Through this comparison, and by using accounting records of aristocratic houses, merchant enterprises, convents and hospitals, we can observe the dietary guidelines that were applied, and their concordance with the galenic principles of University medicine. Moreover, we attempt to assess what were the key factors in the evolution of these theories’ guidelines, and how they were probably rather a way to appro…
Psychological and sociological aspects in feeding of the sports
2012
Con el presente artículo queremos describir mediante una revisión bibliográfica los aspectos que caracterizan los hábitos alimentarios en los deportistas y su relación con la optimización del rendimiento y el mantenimiento del estado de salud del deportista. Los factores que influyen en la educación alimentaria del deportista son varios: hábitos alimentarios de la infancia y adolescencia, suplementación en el deporte, trastornos del comportamiento alimentario y deportistas de alto rendimiento deportivo. Se valora principalmente la ingesta de nutrientes y alimentaria de estos, pero se necesitan conocer sus prácticas alimentarias durante entrenamiento-competición. Cobra importancia las recome…
DEBATMITAL 2.0: 2ª Edición de los debates sobre mitos en alimentación
2020
[ES] En la segunda edición del DEBATMITAL, se ha vuelto a utilizar el debate como herramienta docente para abordar el tema de los Mitos en la Alimentación, en la asignatura optativa del Grado en Medicina de la Universitat de Valencia, “Alimentación y Dietética”. Como novedad respecto a la edición pasada, este curso se ha debatido sobre temas de actualidad acerca de la alimentación, sobre los que existe controversia real en la comunidad científica. Los alumnos han valorado la actividad aún más positivamente este curso: la vuelven a preferir respecto a la lección magistal y además creen que les ayuda a adquirir varias competencias propias de su grado. En base a esta experiencia, se consolida …
Intestinal Trematode Infections
2014
Intestinal trematodes are among the most common types of parasitic worms. About 76 species belonging to 14 families have been recorded infecting humans. Infection commonly occurs when humans eat raw or undercooked foods that contain the infective metacercariae. These parasites are diverse in regard to their morphology, geographical distribution and life cycle, which make it difficult to study the parasitic diseases that they cause. Many of these intestinal trematodes have been considered as endemic parasites in the past. However, the geographical limits and the population at risk are currently expanding and changing in relation to factors such as growing international markets, improved tran…
Ethnocentrism Effects on Consumers’ Behavior during COVID-19 Pandemic
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has upset everyone’s normal daily activities, generating psychiatric disorders and changing consumers’ preferences. Among others, the agri-food sector has experienced strong changes and, during the lockdown period, Italian consumers modified their purchasing habits in response to the fear and uncertainty generated by the spread of the virus. In order to find out the main consequences of the shock suffered during the period and to understand which factors have affected purchasing choices, an online survey was conducted on 286 Italian consumers. The results show that ethnocentrism has been the factor that most has influenced consumers’ behavior during the lockdown period…
Retórica periodística y controversias biopolíticas: El caso de las noticias sobre la polémica de las ‘hamburguesas gigantes’ (Esp…
2011
espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es analizar las estrategias retoricas de ‘nominacion’ o ‘referencia’ y de ‘predicacion’ (Reisigl & Wodak, 2001) como marcas linguisticas de la ‘actitud’ del redactor (Billig, 1991, 1996), utilizadas para describir a los dos principales actores sociales en una muestra de 29 noticias, publicadas en periodicos espanoles, sobre la polemica biopolitica de las ‘hamburguesas gigantes’ en 2006, que enfrento al Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo espanol y a la empresa Burger King sobre la licitud de intervencion estatal en la regulacion de los habitos alimentarios. Se analizan las formas de nominacion empleadas para nombrar a los agentes enfrentados. La estrategia pr…