Endocrine Abstracts

Adolescence is specific periods with physical, physiological, behavioral and social changes. Dietary intakes and food habits are important factors in determining those well-balanced changes during this period of life).336 high school girls (168 urban and 168 rural) in 14–18 years old were randomly selected to determine their daily dietary patterns, in comparing the differences between rural and urban adolescent girls.Data were...

Introduction: Obesity and its related diseases like high blood pressure are the main reason of coronary heart diseases that are the second main cause of mortality in I.R of IRAN. The significant rise of obesity in the last decade resulted in corresponding increase in the prevalence of hypertension.Objective: To detect obesity and hypertension, and the relationship between them among Semnanian people, Iran, 2007Methods: In this cros...

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...