Targeting cultural changes supportive of the healthiest lifestyle patterns. A biosocial evidence-base for prevention of obesity

Booth, David; Booth, Phil

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.12.003

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“…As described in a companion paper in this special issue of Hormones and Behavior , many species show seasonal changes in food intake and energy utilization that are regulated by thyroid hormone availability (Ebling, 2014). In addition, social-cognitive factors can facilitate or inhibit food intake independent of satiety- or hunger-inducing signals (Cohen, 2008; Zheng and Berthoud, 2007) and these may account for some of the variance in rates of obesity in human populations (Berthoud, 2012; Booth and Booth, 2011). These factors likely operate in nonhuman primates as well, as a recent survey of North American research facilities with captive, socially housed, free-feeding monkeys revealed that obesity is present in a portion of each colony, suggesting social and/or genetic factors increase vulnerability to developing an obese phenotype (Bauer et al, 2011; Bauer et al, 2012).…”

Section: Regulation Of Food Intakementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the control of ingestive behavior in primates

Wilson

Moore

Ethun

et al. 2014

Hormones and Behavior

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Ingestive behavior in free-ranging populations of nonhuman primates is influenced by resource availability and social group organization and provides valuable insight on the evolution of ecologically adaptive behaviors and physiological systems. As captive populations were established, questions regarding proximate mechanisms that regulate food intake in these animals could be more easily be addressed. The availability of these captive populations has lead to the use of selected species to understand appetite control or metabolic physiology in humans. Recognizing the difficulty of quantitating food intake in free ranging groups, the use of captive, singly-housed animals provided a distinct advantage though, at the same time, produced a different social ecology from the animals’ natural habitat. However, with the recent application of novel technologies to quantitate caloric intake and energy expenditure in free feeding, socially-housed monkeys permits prospective studies that can accurately define how food intake changes in response to any number of interventions in the context of a social environment. This review provides an overview of studies examining food intake using captive nonhuman primates organized into three areas: a) neurochemical regulation of food intake in nonhuman primates; b) whether exposure to specific diets during key developmental periods program differences in diet preferences or changes the expression of feeding related neuropeptides; and c) how psychosocial factors influence appetite regulation. Because feeding patterns are driven by more than just satiety and orexigenic signals, appreciating how the social context influences pattern of feeding in nonhuman primates may be quite informative for understanding the biological complexity of feeding in humans.

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Section: Regulation Of Food Intakementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the control of ingestive behavior in primates

Wilson

Moore

Ethun

et al. 2014

Hormones and Behavior

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“…This study outlines a possible approach for defining and recognizing specific social-environmental aspects of population nutritional culture that are now recognized to have an important role in supporting health-promoting patterns of behaviour [45]. Our results are not meant to be definitive in nature, but exploratory due to sample size limitations.…”

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Acute effects of coffee on QT interval in healthy subjects

Buscemi

Mattina

Tranchina

et al. 2011

Nutr J

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The coronary endothelial function is recognized to have an important role in the physiology of the diastolic ventricular relaxation, a phase of the heart cycle that influences the electrocardiographic QT interval. Endothelial function is investigated in vivo by flow mediated dilation (FMD) in the brachial artery and has proven to be a strong predictor of both coronary endothelial function and cardiovascular events. It has been reported that coffee acutely induces FMD changes. In particular, the brachial artery FMD seems to decrease after caffeinated coffee (CC) and to increase after decaffeinated coffee (DC) ingestion. Since the cardiovascular effects of coffee are still a debated matter, this study aimed at investigating with a randomized, double-blind crossover design, if the QT interval of adult healthy subjects (19 males and 21 females) changes in the hour following CC or DC ingestion. Both systolic and diastolic blood pressure were higher in the hour following the ingestion of CC; the heart rate significantly increased 30 minutes after CC ingestion. A significant increase of the QT duration was observed one hour after DC ingestion (398.9 ± 3.8 vs 405.3 ± 3.7 msec; P < 0.05), not after CC. The QT interval corrected for heart rate did not significantly change following CC or DC ingestion. In conclusion, despite CC and DC previously demonstrated to influence the FMD they do not seem to induce a significant unfavourable acute change of the left ventricular repolarization. Further investigations are required to elucidate the effects of coffee in subjects with cardiovascular diseases. FindingsMany controversies exist about the cardiovascular effects of coffee in man. We recently demonstrated [1] that endothelial function in healthy subjects, measured using flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery, is significantly lower in the hour following the ingestion of 25 ml of espresso coffee. On the contrary, there was a dose-dependent significant increase in FMD when one (25 ml) or two (50 ml) cups of decaffeinated coffee were ingested [1,2]. We attributed these differences to the opposite effects of caffeine and anti-oxidant substances contained in coffee mixtures. The coronary endothelial function is recognized to have an important role in the physiology of the diastolic ventricular relaxation, therefore, it cannot be excluded that the effects of coffee on the FMD in the brachial artery are of some relevance also for both the coronary bed and the diastolic function. The electrocardiographic QT interval explores the repolarization that occurs during the left ventricular diastolic phase; furthermore, the QT corrected for heart rate (QTc) has been correlated with both atherosclerotic disease and cardiovascular mortality. It has been reported that caffeine ingestion unfavourably affects the QT interval during sleeping in adult healthy subjects [3], however, another study did not evidence any significant influence of caffeine ingestion on the QT interval [4]. Since no study has directly investigated the e...

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“…Culture is as ideas, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and customs of racial, ethnic, religious, or social [9]. Habits are formed by culture, it can affect the nutritional status and causes malnutrition [13]. Culture affects a person in deciding what to eat, how to process, how to prepare, and how to implement, as well as to whom and what conditions the food is consumed.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Analysis of Factors Related to Feeding Pattern on Child with Undernutrition and Malnutrition Based on Transcultural Nursing Theory

Isnantri¹,

Kristiawati²,

Pradanie³

2017

Proceedings of the 8th International Nursing Conference on Education, Practice and Research Development in Nursing (INC 2017)

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Abstract-Theproblem of children suffering from undernutrition and malnutrition are still found in Surabaya, especially at Puskesmas Sawah Pulo. It is caused by the unproper feeding pattern given by their mother. Transcultural nursing theory focuses on factors affecting the culture associated with feeding pattern. The purpose of this study is to analyze factors associated with feeding patterns in undernutrition and malnutrition referring to transcultural nursing theory. The design of study used cross sectional method. There were 33 respondents who were chosen by simple random sampling in this study. The variables in this study were the education, economic, cultural value and lifestyle, social and family support, technology, and feeding pattern. The data were collected by questionnaires and structured interview then it was tested by using the Spearman rho rank test with α = 0.05. The results showed that there was a relationship between feeding pattern with the economy (p= 0.000; r = 0.727), cultural value and lifestyle (p= 0.001; r = 0.548), and technology (p= 0.006; r = 0.466). However, there was no relationship between feeding pattern and knowledge (p= 0.551), social support and family (p= 0.071). In conclusion, the economic, social and cultural value, and technological factors affected feeding pattern. Hopefully, health workers can improve preventive and promotive efforts by providing health education to mothers and families, so that the number of undernutrition and malnutrition can be reduced.

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Targeting cultural changes supportive of the healthiest lifestyle patterns. A biosocial evidence-base for prevention of obesity

Cited by 24 publications

References 53 publications

Understanding the control of ingestive behavior in primates

Understanding the control of ingestive behavior in primates

Acute effects of coffee on QT interval in healthy subjects

The Analysis of Factors Related to Feeding Pattern on Child with Undernutrition and Malnutrition Based on Transcultural Nursing Theory

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