Eating Habits of Adolescents in Poland and in Other Countries

Wasilewska, Małgorzata; Bergier, Józef

doi:10.5114/hpc.2015.57701

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“…Furthermore, a similar association of frequent skipping breakfast with higher markers of general and central adiposity (by 63%–89%) and lower thinness prevalence (by 48%–55%) was shown. In regard to skipping breakfast, our study is compatible with many others reporting that breakfast skippers are more likely to be centrally obese or overweight (by 60%–90%) than regular breakfast consumers [11,15,20,28,35,51,55]. This may be explained by two mechanisms which have caused an energy imbalance and a tendency for excessive accumulation of fat tissue.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…In general, our findings are in line with studies previously reported. In adolescents across the world, a significant association has been found between skipping those meals and older adolescents’ age [30,48,49], urban residence [7], lower nutrition knowledge [51,52,53], lower level of education [48,50], lower family affluence [31,54], lower physical activity level [47,48,49], longer time spent sitting and/or longer screen time [21,22], and also having a television in one’s bedroom [21]. Summing up, the current findings indicate that special attention should be paid to promoting shortening screen time and increasing physical activity and teenagers’ nutrition knowledge, which are relatively easily modifiable correlates.…”

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Skipping Breakfast and a Meal at School: Its Correlates in Adiposity Context. Report from the ABC of Healthy Eating Study of Polish Teenagers

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Little is known on skipping breakfast and a meal at school, especially considered together. The study identified nutrition knowledge-related, lifestyle (including diet quality, physical activity, and screen time) and socioeconomic correlates of skipping breakfast and a meal at school, considered together or alone and assessed the association of skipping these meals with adiposity markers in Polish teenagers. The sample consisted of 1566 fourth and fifth grade elementary school students (11–13 years). The study was designed as a cross-sectional study. Data related to the consumption of selected food items and meals, physical activity, screen time, sociodemographic factors, and nutrition knowledge (all self-reported) were collected (in 2015–2016) with a short form of a food frequency questionnaire. Respondents reported the usual consumption of breakfast (number of days/week) and a meal or any food eaten at school (number of school days/week) labelled as ‘a meal at school’. The measurements of body weight, height, and waist circumference were taken. BMI-for-age ≥25 kg/m2 was considered as a marker of overweight/obesity (general adiposity), while waist-to-height ratio ≥0.5 as a marker of central obesity (central adiposity). A multivariate logistic regression was applied to verify the association between variables. A total of 17.4% of teenagers frequently skipped breakfast (4–7 days/week), 12.9% frequently skipped a meal at school (3–5 school days/week), while 43.6% skipped both of these meals a few times a week. Predictors of skipping breakfast and/or a meal at school were female gender, age over 12 years, urban residence, lower family affluence, lower nutrition knowledge, higher screen time, and lower physical activity. In comparison to “never-skippers,” “frequent breakfast skippers” were more likely to be overweight/obese (odds ratio, OR 1.89; 95% confidence interval, 95%CI 1.38, 2.58) and centrally obese (OR 1.63; 95%CI 1.09, 2.44), while skippers a few times a week of both of these meals were more likely to be overweight/obese (OR 1.37; 95%CI 1.06, 1.78). Concluding, we estimated that a large percentage of Polish teenagers (approx. 44%) usually skipped both breakfast and a meal at school a few times a week. Similar predictors of skipping breakfast and predictors of skipping a meal at school were identified. Special attention should be paid to promoting shortening screen time and increasing physical activity and teenagers’ nutrition knowledge which are relatively easily modifiable correlates. The study shows that skipping both of these meals a few times a week was associated with general adiposity and also strengthens previous evidence showing the association of frequent skipping breakfast with general and central adiposity.

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“…Furthermore, physical activity was measured by widely acknowledged in studies International Physical Activity Questionnaire [29] and the results are more favourable among boys, which is a confirmation of the previous national [13,14,15,16] and foreign [17,18,23,24] research among the school youth.…”

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“…The works of Wasilewska, Bergier [17] are worth mentioning because of using the questionnaire among school youth in other countries [18,19,20,21,22,23,24]. Among researches on current nutritional habits and physical activities it is essential to show their differentiation by gender.…”

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Nutritional Habits and Physical Activity of the Youth of Latvia Considering Gender Differences

Ignatjeva

Bergier

2016

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“…Herbs can be used in the form of dried, whole or ground/shredded plant parts, their blends, essential oils, herbal extracts, or microcapsules. Because of their characteristic aromatic and preservative properties, they are used as natural agents for extending the shelf life of food and as spices [1,2]. Herbs and herbal preparations are used in therapies assisting conventional medicine and are also components of food products belonging to the group of functional foods.…”

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Influence of UV-C radiation on the microbiological purity in selected species of herbs

Kozak-Kalita¹,

Sobczak²,

Zawiślak³

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Authors' contribution Wkład autorów: A. Study design/planning zaplanowanie badań B. Data collection/entry zebranie danych C. Data analysis/statistics dane-analiza i statystyki D. Data interpretation interpretacja danych E. Preparation of manuscript przygotowanie artykułu F. literature analysis/search wyszukiwanie i analiza literatury G. Funds collection zebranie funduszy Summary Background. Herbs are used in both the food and pharmaceutical industry. The quality of products received from herbal raw materials depends primarily on the microbiological purity of herbs. The presence of germs in food products contributes to developing alimentary infections and to the contamination of food with mycotoxins. Decontamination with ultraviolet UV-C rays is a proven way to enhance the microbiological purity of food products as radiation directly affects the structure of the nucleic acid of living organisms and destroys them without selective biocidal activity. The aim of the study was to determine the microbiological purity of selected species of herbs and assess the possibility of using UV-C radiation to increase it. Material and methods. The scope of work included the separation of three dimensional fractions of dried herbs such as thyme, medical cistus and stinging nettle, and then subjecting them to UV-C light and determining the total number of germs in the herbs with respect to the control sample, which consisted of untreated herbs. Results. The tested herbs were characterised by diversified microbiological purity, depending on the species and a type of size fraction. Sterilisation of herbs with UV-C radiations allowed for increasing their microbiological purity as compared to the control sample, in the case of the fraction with the largest particle size by about 37%-thyme, 73%-cistus and 30%-nettle. Conclusions. The use of UV-C radiation allowed for considerable reduction of the number of germs found in the examined herbs.

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Eating Habits of Adolescents in Poland and in Other Countries

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Skipping Breakfast and a Meal at School: Its Correlates in Adiposity Context. Report from the ABC of Healthy Eating Study of Polish Teenagers

Skipping Breakfast and a Meal at School: Its Correlates in Adiposity Context. Report from the ABC of Healthy Eating Study of Polish Teenagers

Nutritional Habits and Physical Activity of the Youth of Latvia Considering Gender Differences

Influence of UV-C radiation on the microbiological purity in selected species of herbs

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