Our Health Is in Our Hands

Abstract

A multifaceted SMC that coincides with prevention programs can effectively raise attention to health issues and activities in a high-risk population at a relatively low cost.

Protective Effects of Licochalcone A Ameliorates Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Via Promotion of the Sirt-1/AMPK Pathway in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet

“…In recent years, many studies found that some plant extract or pure compounds could reduce body weight and improve NAFLD [1,8,31,32]. Rutin could improve NAFLD by suppressing hepatic lipid levels and oxidative injury in mice [33], and curcumin could ameliorate the progression of NASH and liver damage and in HFD mice by regulating the HMGB1-NF-κB pathway [34].…”

What should governments be doing to prevent diabetes throughout the life course?

“…Such interventions should be initiated early in pregnancy and continue throughout the pregnancy, as major short-and long-term health consequences for both the mother and the child are likely. • Develop and implement national diabetes plans as well as regional strategies promoting local partnerships with communities and stakeholders [38] • Governments should support the implementation of interdisciplinary care teams, with special regard to the involvement of pharmacists [39] • Improve the transparency of product ingredients using mandatory simple and intuitive nutrition or menu labelling [40] • Set up government food benefit programmes to incentivise the purchase of fruit and vegetables [41] • Support the certification of digital devices and apps to improve access to evidencebased health information [42] • Use narrative and visual messages to improve diabetes awareness [43] • Support interpretative nutrition labelling, like traffic lights, to decrease SSB sales [41] • Strengthen the framing of diabetes as a problem to be tackled on the societal level [44] • Raise taxes on unhealthy products (and consider the liability for adverse health effects of food and beverage products) and reinvest the money in local infrastructure (outdoor gyms and playgrounds) [45] Pregnant women and young families • Screen high-risk groups (elevated risk due to family history, increased BMI) for early detection of GDM [46] as a precondition for lifestyle change • Give advice regarding healthy eating and set activity targets during pregnancy [47,48] • Give advice regarding the benefits of breastfeeding [49] • Employ multimedia communication strategies to increase the widespread knowledge of diabetes risk during pregnancy [50,51] Children and adolescents…”

“…To enhance diabetes awareness both in the general population and in at-risk groups (e.g. individuals with impaired glucose tolerance or those with low literacy), governments should employ communication strategies based on targeting, the use of multiple media channels [42] and the involvement of an individual's support network, such as family and friends, as well as physicians [92][93][94][95]. Government strategies aiming to decrease the prevalence of risk factors for GDM should employ a broad spectrum of media channels to increase awareness rather than relying solely on the effectiveness of prepregnancy care [50,51].…”

The impact of a multilevel childhood obesity prevention intervention on healthful food acquisition, preparation, and fruit and vegetable consumption on African-American adult caregivers

“…Similar to our findings, The Food Hero study - a social media campaign targeted at SNAP-eligible families with children - found increased positive beliefs about FV among participants. (50) Although previous studies have tested social media approaches for behavioral interventions (51; 52; 53; 54) , to our knowledge, BHCK was the first study to combine these strategies into a multilevel multicomponent community-based nutrition intervention. The use of social media to provide a platform for actionable information and social support for families with children has been recommended in the obesity prevention literature (54; 55; 56) and is being further tested in ongoing community-based trials.…”