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Childhood Obesity: Assessing A Case Study, Une Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

The following project assesses a case study for a young adolescent girl. She was referred to her health care provider due to excess weight. Her BMI is above the 96^th percentile resulting in obesity, which caused concern to her family. Obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure run in her family so she is at increased risk of developing a non-communicable disease when she gets older if she does not gain the proper nutritional needs and education. The purpose of this project is to assess a 3-day meal plan that the young adolescent typically consumes then develop interventions and goals …

The Fight Against Overweight And Obesity Among Adolescents, Jordan Reichel

All Student-Created Educational Resources

The purpose of this handout is to use evidence-based research to educate the adolescents population about the growing problem of overweight and obesity among youth in this age group. This handout describes the criteria for being considered overweight or obese during adolescence. Possible risk factors for adolescent overweight and obesity are identified. The handout discusses the burden of disease and the potential consequences associated with being overweight or obese as an adolescent. Behavior modification strategies for preventing or treating overweight and obesity in adolescent’s are also described.

Symptoms And Treatment Perceptions Of Patients With Dairy Hypersensitivities, Brittany Taylor-Whitmer

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This is a conference abstract for the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE). It intends to summarize the proposed research designed in an IRB proposal regarding dairy hypersensitivities. It is intended for the FNCE review board.

Eat Healthy, Lose Weight, Exercise, Change Your Lifestyle… And Have Fun While Doing It!, Yasmine Abuzeid

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout depicts four fun ways to help manage obesity, tips on eating healthy, losing weight, exercising and changing lifestyle. All information is based on evidence-based research on these topics.

Setting Your Health Up For Success- A Guide For The New Young Professional, Rebecca Iwata

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout contains helpful tips for young professionals that have recently graduated from college. It explains how to get started with meal planning, scheduling exercise into the week, and how stocking your fridge can help increase the likelihood of making healthy choices.

Healthy Eating: Tips For Parents On A Budget, Une Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout acts as resources for parents by providing information on proper nutrition and attaining a healthy diet while on a budget.

Dietary Supplement Roadmap, Debbie Safra

All Student-Created Educational Resources

Dietary supplements are meant to aid in providing additional vitamins, minerals, fiber, amino acids, herbs and botanicals to ones’ diet that may be deficient. These supplements are available in various forms and advertise to promote various health claims. However, often there is little research to support these health claims. Supplement use date back as far as 1920 when cod liver oil was introduced as a food nutrient. The first known multivitamin/multimineral /Phytonutrient supplement called Nutrilite was introduced in the United States in 1934.¹ With the growth of dietary supplement manufacturing the possibility of misbranding, and false product claims required …

Prevent Heart Disease With A Whole Food Plant-Based Lifestyle, Allen Appell

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This pamphlet informs the audience about the importance of adopting a Whole Food Plant-Based lifestyle for optimum heart health. It discusses common concerns about plant-based diets such as the source of protein, how plant-based food provides ample antioxidants and fiber, and that heart disease can be reversed. Recommendations are offered for specific types of food to consume, where to source recipes and nutrition information.

What Is Childhood Obesity?, Caitlyn Garmer

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout defines what childhood obesity is, the causes behind it, the risk factors for childhood obesity, and what parents can do to help children who are obese. Included in the handout is a diagram on how to prevent childhood obesity and additional resources to aide a child who might be obese.

Best Health Tips For Teenage Girls, Une Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

The handout provides basic nutrition tips on how to implement small changes towards a healthier lifestyle.

Ukrainian Cuisine, Une Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout provides an overview of Ukrainian food, including staple foods and popular dishes, holiday meals, typical eating patterns and current beliefs and practices.

A Teen’S Guide To Healthy Eating, Une Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout explains 5 ways to live a healthier life simply by getting physical activity, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, drinking water, never skipping meals and providing a helping hand in the kitchen.

Key Assessment Part 2 Educational Handout, Karl Granskog

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This is an educational handout on childhood obesity. It delineates the increase and common complications in childhood and adolescent obesity. It informs the reader of the linkage between childhood and adolescent obesity and: hypertension/heart remodeling, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and prediabetes/diabetes. It informs the reader of these undesired co-morbidities and the increased unfavorable cardiovascular outcomes in the present and in adulthood. It provides information on actions the reader can take to address childhood and adolescent obesity in children.

Healthy Holidays, Dominique Gummelt

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Vegan Healthy Defaults Pamphlet, Une Applied Nutrition Program

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout informs the audience about quick and easy vegan options for busy individuals, so that the healthy choice is their easiest choice.

How To Raise Healthy Eaters, Marina Grant

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This pamphlet provides the information about the importance of heathy eating and about diet-related diseases. It is intended for parents and caregivers of younger children. The pamphlet informs them about different parenting styles and delivers some basic recommendations about optimal diet. It will also help parents and caregivers to form healthy eating habits for their children. The pamphlet provides healthy snack ideas and detailed tips that parents and caregivers could use in everyday lives in order to introduce healthy changes and raise healthy eating children.

Comparison Of Maternal Beliefs About Causes Of Autism Spectrum Disorder And Association With Utilization Of Services And Treatments, Virginia Chaidez, Erik Fernandez Y Garcia, Lulu W. Wang, Kathleen Angkustsiri, Paula Krakowiak, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Robin L. Hansen

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Background: This study aimed to describe parental perceptions of the causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in an ethnically diverse sample and explore whether these perceptions relate to treatment choices.

Methods: The sample consisted of White (n=224), Hispanic (n=85) and Asian (n=21) mothers of a child with ASD. A mixed methods approach was used in this secondary analysis focusing on parental perceptions about the causes of ASD and the relationship of these to utilization of services and treatment.

Results: Environmental and genetic factors were most often believed to be the cause or one of the causes of ASD by mothers …

The Effect Of Nr4a3 On Functional Beta Cell Mass, Jeffery S. Tessem

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The academic objectives of this Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG) were to 1) train undergraduate students in the scientific process to prepare them in careers as physicians and scientists, and 2) to determine if the in vitro phenotypes observed in Nr4a3 deficient beta cell lines are translatable to the Nr4a3 KO mouse. . We were successful in accomplishing these objectives, as evidenced by the training of four undergraduate students, presentation of research and local and national meetings, and initial preparation of a manuscript reporting our findings. While we did have difficulty breeding these mice, this study gives us the basis of …

Development, Validation, And Testing Of A Self-Determination Theory Instrument Called The Motivation To Prepare Healthy Foods Questionnaire, Ariana Delong Bailey

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The objectives of these studies were to validate and confirm the structure of a previously developed questionnaire that measures the psychosocial constructs defined by the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and then test this questionnaire in a nutrition education setting. The instrument, titled the Motivation to Prepare Healthy Foods Questionnaire (MPHFQ), included items that measured intrinsic motivation, perceived competence, relatedness, autonomy, and autonomy support. These studies evaluated the questionnaire’s validity and ability to measure changes in the SDT construct scores.

The MPHFQ is a previously developed and reliable instrument intended to measure adults’ intrinsic motivation and perceived competence to prepare healthy foods, …

Effect Of Larval Starvation On Lipid Content Of Drosophila Melanogaster Over 15 Days, Fabian Leija, Allen Gibbs

LSAMP Poster Presentations

Starvation-resistant Drosophila melanogaster, common fruit flies, deriving from 121 generations of starvation selection, have resulted in genetically, behaviorally, and physiologically different individuals compared to non-resistant counterparts. Starvation-resistant Drosophila are more obese, containing twice as much lipids as control flies.This is a result of starvation-resistant fly larva feeding for 5 days and then entering the pupa stage while non-resistant flies only feed for 4 days.

In this experiment, we hope to answer the question of whether the starvation-resistant flies are genetically predisposed to be substantially more obese than wild populations or if it is a result of this alternate behavior …

Justice Served Fresh: Associations Between Food Insecurity, Community Gardening, And Property Value, Micajah Daniels, Courtney Coughenour Ph.D

McNair Poster Presentations

Numerous stakeholders in Nevada have used a variety of efforts to combat the growth of food insecurity facing Nevadans. The purpose of this research project is to understand the association between food insecurity, community gardens, and property value. Following the wealth of scholarship on these topics and data collected from community garden agencies in Southern Nevada, the research questions for this project include: (1) Where are community gardens located in SNV? (2) What efforts community gardens agencies are doing to address food insecurity (most interested in their efforts using community gardens)? (3) What are the perceptions of supports and barriers …

Improving Health Through Diet And Exercise In Children, Elaine Rush, Tara Coppinger

Publications

We know that nutritious foods and quality physical activity are two of the fundamental needs for normal growth and development of children. Food based dietary guidelines and physical activity recommendations have universal evidence base but the teaching of fundamental movement skills is limited without support. Given the importance of prevention of childhood obesity the distal drivers also need to be examined including poverty. Interventions trialled in carefully controlled conditions while shown to have efficacy are not effective in the real world. There is a need for more research and rigorous evaluation of interventions in combinations of settings and with innovative …

Is Mafb Essential To Β-Cell Growth And Proliferation?, Aaron Leifer, Jeffery Tessem

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Project Purpose: Our goal is to determine if MafB is necessary for β Cell proliferation and glucose stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS). Project Importance: Approximately 29.1 million people are affected by type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the United States, according to 2014 National Diabetes Statistic Report. In addition, these 29.1 spent or lost 245 billion dollars combined. A cure for diabetes would result in not only a better life style but would also save billions of dollars. Project Profile Body: Both forms of diabetes are ultimately caused by decreased functional β-cell mass. β-cell transplantation is a possible treatment for …

Micronutrient Deficiency Independently Predicts Time To Event In Patients With Heart Failure, Terry A. Lennie, Christina Andreae, Mary Kay Rayens, Eun Kyeung Song, Sandra B. Dunbar, Susan J. Pressler, Seongkum Heo, Jinshil Kim, Debra K. Moser

Nursing Faculty Publications

Background—Dietary micronutrient deficiencies have been shown to predict event‐free survival in other countries but have not been examined in patients with heart failure living in the United States. The purpose of this study was to determine whether number of dietary micronutrient deficiencies in patients with heart failure was associated with shorter event‐free survival, defined as a combined end point of all‐cause hospitalization and death.

Methods and Results—Four‐day food diaries were collected from 246 patients with heart failure (age: 61.5±12 years; 67% male; 73% white; 45% New York Heart Association [NYHA] class III/IV) and analyzed using Nutrition Data Systems …

A Community Based Participatory Approach To Training Young Adults To Design And Implement A Social Marketing Framed Lifestyle Intervention On Their College Campus, Melissa D. Olfert, Makenzie L. Barr, Kristin Riggsbee, Kendra K. Kattelmann, Krista Leischner, Anne E. Mathews, Melissa Vilaro, Sarah E. Colby

Health and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach may increase the likelihood of relevance and acceptability of the designed intervention, especially on a college campus. Furthermore, recruiting and training college students to design a social marketing framed healthy lifestyle intervention for their peers will allow the intervention to be tailored to the needs of the campus. Objectives: To describe the process of online-course training college students to develop a campus-based, social marketing health promotion intervention. Methods: Four universities recruited current college students (18+ y.o.) to develop a social marketing and environmental intervention (SMEI), which was completed during a 16-week, online/in-person …

Improving The Nutrition And Screen Time Environment Through Self-Assessment In Family Childcare Homes In Nebraska, Dipti A. Dev, Natalie Williams, Iheoma Iruka, Aileen Garcia, Yage Guo, Irina Patwardhan, Katrina Cummings, Zainab Rida, Emily Hulse, Ami Sedani

Counseling and Human Development Faculty Publications

Objective: To determine if family childcare homes (FCCH) in Nebraska meet best practices for nutrition and screen time, and if focusing on nutrition and screen time policies and practices improves the FCCH environment. Design: A pre–post evaluation was conducted using the Go Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Childcare (Go NAP SACC). Setting: FCCH in Nebraska, USA. Subjects: FCCH enrolled in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP; n 208) participated in a pre–post evaluation using Go NAP SACC. Results: At baseline, all FCCH met the minimum childcare standards for fifty-four of fifty-six practices in nutrition and screen time. …

Comparative Analysis Of Body Composition And Reference Values Of Visceral Adipose Tissues In Various American Collegiate Sports, Eshan M. Dandekar

Master's Theses

Background: Currently, body composition (BC) assessment is usually performed to diagnose disease states and accurately estimate certain types of tissues. In athletes, performing BC assessments helps gauge training and nutrition programs to see if they are adequately meeting the athlete’s needs to improve performance. Annual Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scans before the start of an athlete’s season can help identify an athlete’s preparedness or health before training begins.

Objective: To assess the preseason BC of four collegiate sports: Men’s basketball, men’s baseball, women’s volleyball, and women’s soccer, for Fat Mass (FM), bone mineral density BMD), Fat-Free Mass …

The Most Neglected Fitness Factor, Dominique Gummelt

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Factors Influencing Immunisation Schedule Adherence And Completion At The Regional Level In The Philippines, Paolo Miguel Manalang Vicerra

Kesmas

Penyebab utama kematian bayi sebagian besar dapat dicegah dan terdapat alasan baik dari sisi suplai maupun permintaan layanan kesehatan hal itu dapat terus berlangsung. Penelitian ini bertujuan memastikan faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi perilaku layanan kesehatan preventif imunisasi bayi di Filipina yang tepat waktu karena tingkat kelengkapan, atau kepatuhan, telah stabil dalam beberapa dekade terakhir. Metode yang digunakan adalah pembuatan model statistik di tingkat subnasional. Sampel berisi bayi yang lahir sebelum Survei Demografi dan Kesehatan Nasional Filipina tahun 2013 untuk menentukan kepatuhan yang tepat terhadap jadwal imunisasi yang dimandatkan oleh pemerintah. Hal ini melibatkan penggabungan 17 wilayah administratif negara ke tiga wilayah …

Husband’S Support For Their Wives In Antenatal Care Visit, Awalia Hanifah, Hadi Pratomo, Giang Hoang

Kesmas

Di wilayah Puskesmas Cimanggis, Kota Depok, cakupan kunjungan antenatal pertama (K1) dan kunjungan ke-4 (K4) sebesar 99,4% (2013) dan 91% (2014). Dukungan suami ibu hamil merupakan salah satu faktor yang berperan penting dalam kunjungan antenatal pada ibu hamil. Penelitian ini bertujuan menilai faktor predisposisi, pemungkin dan penguat dari dukungan suami terhadap ANC istrinya dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan desain Rapid Assessment Procedure. Lima suami dan istrinya yang sedang hamil dipilih sebagai informan serta dua bidan puskesmas sebagai informan kunci. Analisis data menggunakan matriks data kualitatif dan teknik analisis tematik. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor predisposisi, pemungkin dan penguat dari suami …