Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Overweight and obesity are being emerged as one of the most prevalent nutritional problems among children in developed and developing countries. To decrease the rate of them there is need to know more about effective factors.Objective: This study aimed to determine association between energy and nutrients intake with overweight / obesity in male and female school children of Tehran.Methods: A sample of 761 school stud...

Nutritional education and improvement of nutritional knowledge is an effective intervention that improves School children health. With consideration to few accurate and successful nutritional teaching programs directed at our schoolchildren in this research we evaluated the status of nutrition education system in primary school children and mothers’ point of view. The study was a qualitative study as a Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The research team consisted of a coordin...