Relationship between Regular Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Underweight and Overweight Status in Taiwanese Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

Liang, Chyi; Lee, Po-Fu; Yeh, Ping-Chun

doi:10.3390/ijerph20010284

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“…Physical activity in this study provided a significant relationship with nutritional status. It is no different from a study conducted in Taiwan, which also revealed that regular physical activity (TPA) is effective in reducing the risk of being underweight or overweight (p<0.05) [48].…”

Section: Factors Affecting Nutritional Balancecontrasting

confidence: 81%

Nutrition transition era: how does nutritional balance of West Sumatra fishermen’s families perform?

Yuliana,

Fatimah,

Tasrif

et al. 2023

IJPHS

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The purpose of this study is to observe the nutritional balance of fisherman's families in the Mandeh area of West Sumatra, Indonesia, in terms of food diversity, a clean and healthy lifestyle, physical activity, and nutritional status during the nutritional transition period. The sample size was 119 fishermen's families from the Mandeh area who were chosen randomly. An interview method that included a questionnaire and anthropometric measurements was used as the data collection technique. The interaction trend of nutritional status with food diversity, a clean and healthy lifestyle, and physical activity was seen by Chi-square analysis. The results found a significant relationship between physical activity and the nutritional status of fishermen's families, with a p-value of 0.020. Meanwhile, there was no correlation between food diversity, a clean and healthy lifestyle, and nutritional status (p>0.05). Additionally, nutritional problems, particularly obesity and malnutrition cases in fishermen's families in the Mandeh area of West Sumatera during the nutritional transition period, require attention; for instance, increasing prevention strategies to maintain nutritional balance.

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Section: Factors Affecting Nutritional Balancecontrasting

confidence: 81%

Nutrition transition era: how does nutritional balance of West Sumatra fishermen’s families perform?

Yuliana,

Fatimah,

Tasrif

et al. 2023

IJPHS

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“…The definition of overweight in Taiwan is ≥24 [ 59 , 60 ], that different from the classic WHO definition [ 61 ]. The difference in over-weight definition may due to differences in perceptions and assessments of the health risks of different BMI values in different countries.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Higher Abundance of Actinomyces spp. in the Gut Is Associated with Spontaneous Preterm Birth

Tsai

Chan

et al. 2023

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Preterm birth is a major challenge in pregnancy worldwide. Prematurity is the leading cause of death in infants and may result in severe complications. Nearly half of preterm births are spontaneous, but do not have recognizable causes. This study investigated whether the maternal gut microbiome and associated functional pathways might play a key role in spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB). Two hundred eleven women carrying singleton pregnancies were enrolled in this mother-child cohort study. Fecal samples were freshly collected at 24–28 weeks of gestation before delivery, and the 16S ribosomal RNA gene was sequenced. Microbial diversity and composition, core microbiome, and associated functional pathways were then statistically analyzed. Demographic characteristics were collected using records from the Medical Birth Registry and questionnaires. The result showed that the gut microbiome of mothers with over-weight (BMI ≥ 24) before pregnancy have lower alpha diversity than those with normal BMI before pregnancy. A higher abundance of Actinomyces spp. was filtered out from the Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe), Spearman correlation, and random forest model, and was inversely correlated with gestational age in sPTB. The multivariate regression model showed that the odds ratio of premature delivery was 3.274 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.349; p = 0.010] in the group with over-weight before pregnancy with a cutoff Hit% > 0.022 for Actinomyces spp. The enrichment of Actinomyces spp. was negatively correlated with glycan biosynthesis and metabolism in sPTB by prediction from the Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States (PICRUSt) platform. Maternal gut microbiota showing a lower alpha diversity, increased abundance of Actinomyces spp., and dysregulated glycan metabolism may be associated with sPTB risk.

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“…For example, it is very frequent that more women than men participate in these surveys [ 82 , 90 , 91 ], because women are usually more willing to respond to questionnaire surveys. Nevertheless, there are also some studies in which the majority of participants are men [ 92 , 93 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Food Literacy Scale: Validation through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a Sample of Portuguese University Students

et al. 2022

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Eating behaviors and healthy food choices are associated with food literacy, and they have a huge impact on one’s health status. For that reason, to increase food literacy is a way to effectively help individuals make appropriate choices that help maintain health and diminish the incidence of non-communicable diseases. The objective of this work was to test and validate a scale to assess food literacy. The validation was conducted on a sample of 924 Portuguese university students. The scale was composed of 50 items, which were submitted to exploratory and confirmatory factors analysis. The final validated scale corresponded to a second-order model with a global factor called “Food literacy”, which retained 26 items distributed by three factors: F1—literacy about the nutritional composition of foods (10 items), F2—literacy about labelling and food choices (7 items), and F3—literacy about healthy eating practices (9 items). The internal consistency of the scale is very high, with an alpha higher than 0.9, and the Pierson correlations between the three factors and the global are also higher than 0.9. In conclusion, the present scale has been validated and can therefore be utilized to measure food literacy.

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Relationship between Regular Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Underweight and Overweight Status in Taiwanese Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Nutrition transition era: how does nutritional balance of West Sumatra fishermen’s families perform?

Nutrition transition era: how does nutritional balance of West Sumatra fishermen’s families perform?

A Higher Abundance of Actinomyces spp. in the Gut Is Associated with Spontaneous Preterm Birth

Food Literacy Scale: Validation through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a Sample of Portuguese University Students

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