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Minimum Wages and Healthy Diet [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
A healthy diet is often unaffordable for low‐income individuals, so income‐lifting policies may play an important role in not only alleviating poverty but also in improving nutrition. We investigate if higher minimum wages can contribute to an improved diet by increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables.
Kathryn L. Clark, R. Vincent Pohl, Ryan C. Thomas   +2 more
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Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to a Healthy Diet among Cancer Survivors: A Qualitative Exploration Using the TDF and COM-B

Dietetics, 2023
Cancer survivors consider nutrition to be highly important and are motivated to seek information about lifestyle changes, including nutrition, to improve their long-term health. Despite this, suboptimal dietary intake is still reported.
Laura Keaver, Pauline Douglas, Niamh O’Callaghan   +2 more
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Quinoa treated by an optimized method of microwave heating and their effect on antioxidant activity and phenolic compounds after in vitro gastrointestinal digestion

CyTA - Journal of Food, 2023
Heating by microwave irradiation could be an alternative for cooking quinoa and improving its content of phenolic compounds, which have health-promoting properties.
Maribel Valenzuela González, José Luis Cárdenas López, Armando Burgos Hernández, Norma Julieta Salazar López, Manuel Viuda Martos, Alan Amado Ruiz Hernández, Rosario Maribel Robles Sánchez   +6 more
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Healthy Eating Education Programme

, 2013
This Programme provides healthy nutritious food for residents and ex-residents of the East Belfast Missions homeless shelter. It also provides health and diet sessions and cookery demonstrations on how to plan and prepare healthy food on a low budget ...
Healthy Food For All
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Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani, Rachel K. Peterson, Avani D. Rao, Laurie J. McKenzie, Ahmed Magdy Elmotayam, Leslie Chang, Michael Roth, Susan L. McGovern   +7 more
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“We Cannot Talk as a Family”: Complexities of Survivorship Communication Among Hispanic/Latino Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer, Parents, and Clinicians

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu, Nicole Fernández‐Viña, Briana C. Martin‐Villa, Daniela Ramirez, Rebecca M. Lewinsohn, Mary Smith, Heidi Boynton, Lidia Schapira, Stephanie M. Smith   +8 more
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The Development of Public Policies to Address Non-communicable Diseases in the Caribbean Country of Barbados: The Importance of Problem Framing and Policy Entrepreneurs [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
Background Government policy measures have a key role to play in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The Caribbean, a middle-income region, has the highest per capita burden of NCDs in the Americas.
Nigel Unwin, T. Alafia Samuels, Trevor Hassell, Ross C. Brownson, Cornelia Guell   +4 more
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Social implementation of healthy diets [PDF]

Nutrition Reviews, 2020
Abstract Many issues regarding the social implementation of healthy diets remain to be solved. The structure of these issues and the route to achieve social implementation are not well organized. Working Group 3 of the Healthy Diet Research Committee of International Life Sciences Institute, Japan, surveyed some precedent cases aiming to
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Potassium intake is associated with nutritional quality and actual diet cost: a study at formulating a low sodium high potassium (LSHP) healthy diet [PDF]

, 2022
Increasing potassium and reducing sodium intake have been identified as a priority intervention to reduce non-communicable diseases. A low sodium high potassium (LSHP) healthy diet can be a predictor of overall dietary quality and is associated with ...
Annas Buanasita, -, Dominikus Raditya Atmaka, -, Stefania Widya Setyaningtyas, -, Merryana Adriani, -, Muhammad Miftahussurur, -, Farapti, -, Purwo Sri Rejeki, -, Yoshio Yamaoka, -, Annas Buanasita, Muhammad Miftahussurur, Merryana Adriani, Yoshio Yamaoka, Stefania W. Setyaningtyas, Purwo S. Rejeki, Farapti Farapti, Dominikus R. Atmaka   +15 more
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Feeding, Fear, and Acceptance: Caregivers’ Experiences of Nutritional Support During Childhood Cancer Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To explore caregivers' experiences and perceptions of the nutritional challenges faced by children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment, including oral intake and the use of nutritional support. Methods This was a qualitative study based on focus groups with parents and caregivers at a Brazilian pediatric oncology hospital ...
Danyelle Apparecida Balsamão Marques, Mariana dos Santos Murra, Welinton Hirai, Ana Laura Balduino do Nascimento, Karla Emilia de Sá Rodrigues, Wilson Elias de Oliveira Junior   +5 more
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