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This study investigated the effect of switching normal diet to vegetarian diet rich in vegetables and fruits for school foodservice and home meal on the nutritional status, bowel habit improvement and stress reduction of teachers and adolescents. A total of 40 research subjects (26 students, 14 teachers) from one middle school voluntarily participa...
Citations
... Within the food or eating habits and behaviours category a range of construct terms were identified across the 23 included papers (Additional file 7). The most common were eating habits, including frequency of meals or snacks consumed daily (n = 4) [60,61,71,121] or meal skipping practices (n = 2) [66,122]. Six papers used or Table 4 Thematically created personal and professional FN construct groups included an adapted version of the Personal Health Index [43] which has six single item questions around teacher health perceptions, level of satisfaction with their eating habits and regularity of consuming recommended fruit and vegetable serves [2,37,43,46,99,123]. ...
... Physical activity and/or exercise, including self-regulation of these was the most common covariate or construct included across 43 of the included papers, followed by smoking and/or smoking status and tobacco use (n = 23), alcohol intake (n = 11), and sleep (n = 5). With mental health and wellbeing measured in 11 [60, 68, 90-92, 122, 135-139] of the 105 papers, including perceived stress [122] and perceived occupational stress [68]. Three papers utilised a personal health assessment to report work related aspects of job performance, along with life satisfaction, and related mental health outcomes such as depression, stress, and loneliness [90][91][92]. ...
... The major finding is that the constructs used in research to date are highly variable and lack consistency in construct terminology. Dietary habits were one construct appearing in two included papers [60,65], with another four including dietary habits examining eating habits [135,136], eating behaviours [122] or hygienic behaviours [126], yet these were placed in three different construct groups during thematic analysis based on content variations within the papers. The three construct groups dietary habits appeared in were dietary assessment [65], food or eating habits and behaviours [122,126,135,136], and culinary [60]. ...
Background
Teachers form a large and essential workforce globally. Their wellbeing impacts personal health-related outcomes with flow on effects for the health, and wellbeing of their students. However, food and nutrition (FN) interventions that include teachers, typically neglect the impact of personal FN factors on a teachers’ ability to achieve optimal nutrition-related health and wellbeing, and successfully fulfil their professional FN roles as health promoters, gate keepers, educators’, and role models. The aim of this review was to scope FN constructs that have been studied internationally regarding teacher FN-related health and wellbeing.
Methods
Six databases were searched, and papers extracted in June/July 2021. Eligibility criteria guided by the population, concept, context mnemonic included studies published after 2000, in English language, with an aspect of personal FN-related health and wellbeing, among in-service (practising) and pre-service (training), primary, and secondary teachers. Screening studies for inclusion was completed by two independent researchers with data extraction piloted with the same reviewers and completed by lead author, along with complete descriptive and thematic analysis.
Results
Ten thousand six hundred seventy-seven unique articles were identified with 368 eligible for full text review and 105 included in final extraction and analysis. Sixty-nine descriptive studies were included, followed by 35 intervention studies, with the main data collection method used to assess both personal and professional FN constructs being questionnaires (n = 99 papers), with nutrition knowledge and dietary assessment among the most commonly assessed.
Conclusion
FN constructs are used within interventions and studies that include teachers, with diversity in constructs included and how these terms are defined. The evidence from this scoping review can be used to inform data collection and evaluation in future epidemiological and interventional research that addresses teacher FN-related health and wellbeing.
... respondents with low Hb levels and 6 (28.6%) respondents with normal Hb levels. Based on the upper arm circumference, reproductive women who are classified as malnourished in the [15][16][17][18][19] year age group were as many as 5 (1.4%), while in the 20-35 year age group were only Nutritional status according to BMI in the working group of 40 respondents. There were 11 (84.6%) ...
... Low Hb or anemia results in a decrease in learning ability, a decrease in physical activity or physical labor, and a decrease in body resistance to fatigue. So that this can affect work [15][16]. ...
... One of the factors causing nutritional problems is eating habits. If someone is accustomed to following the vegetarian diet for years, eating improperly without knowing the need for various nutrients, it will have an impact on nutritional status and the lack of fulfillment of these nutrient requirements [15][16]. ...
Vegetarian diet has become a popular diet among people. However, the diet is known to cause the lack of some nutrients such as protein, iron, and B12, which has the implication on one's nutritional status. When the body's metabolism is high as in times of growth, menstruation, pregnancy and lactation, and women of reproductive age group with vegetarian diets are vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies. The study is aimed to identifying nutritional status women of reproductive age group with vegetarian diets in Badung Regency. The method used in this study is descriptive quantitative, with cross sectional approach. Nutritional status based on Body Mass Index (BMI), Upper Arm Circumference (UAC), and Hemoglobin (Hb) level. Data analysis in the form of frequency distribution table and narrated. The result of measuring the nutritional status obtained is most women of reproductive age group with vegetarian diets have good nutritional status. From these results it is necessary to note the intake of foods and types of food consumed for nutritional needs are met. Foods derived from iron and vitamin C that facilitate the absorption of iron.
... Sample sizes ranged from 14 adult participants (29) to a cohort study with 10,419 participants (23). Two of the reviewed studies examined a middle-aged cohort comprising women only (30,31), 7 studies were mixed with regards to gender, and 1 study did not report the distribution (23). ...
... In addition, 2 studies involved UK-based community samples (23,24). The remaining studies were undertaken in Canada (28), the United States (32), and Korea (29). Although 2 studies were population-based (24,28), some specific population groups were investigated, including teachers (29), university employees with a BMI ≥ 25 (32), university students (26,27,33), residents living in deprived English communities (23), and middle-aged women (30,31). ...
... The remaining studies were undertaken in Canada (28), the United States (32), and Korea (29). Although 2 studies were population-based (24,28), some specific population groups were investigated, including teachers (29), university employees with a BMI ≥ 25 (32), university students (26,27,33), residents living in deprived English communities (23), and middle-aged women (30,31). ...
Background:
To alleviate the immense health and economic burden of mental illness, modifiable targets to promote psychological health are required. Emerging evidence suggests that both fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption may play an important role. However, the precise contribution of vegetable consumption, which may represent a more potent target than the consumption of fruit, has received little attention.
Objectives:
This review aimed to synthesize and evaluate research investigating the effects of vegetable consumption on mental health and psychological well-being in nonclinical, healthy adult populations. We aimed to provide insight into the causal relation between vegetable consumption and these outcomes.
Methods:
Only studies with prospective or experimental data were included. The survey of the literature was last implemented on 1 February, 2019.
Results:
Ten eligible studies were identified, with a total sample size of n = 33,645, that measured vegetable intake separately from fruit, or combined this with fruit intake. Where studies explored the independent effects of fruit and vegetable consumption on psychological health (n = 3), 2 reported a preferential effect of vegetables (compared with fruit) on psychological well-being, whereas 1 reported a superior effect of fruit intake on odds reduction of symptoms of depression. More broadly, there was evidence that consuming the recommended amount of F&V (and exceeding this) was associated with increased psychological well-being. However, the effects of F&V consumption on mental health symptoms were inconsistent.
Conclusions:
Increased F&V consumption has a positive effect on psychological well-being and there appears to be a preferential effect of vegetables (compared with fruit) from the limited data examined. The effect of F&V intake on mental health is less clear and, at present, there are no clear data to support a preferential effect of vegetable intake on mental health outcomes. Hence, additional research is warranted to investigate the influence of vegetables, compared with fruit, on psychological health in order to inform nutrition-based interventions. This review was registered at www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero as CRD42017072880.
... Given the lack of scientific evidence supporting specific dietary advice for patients with IBS, they tend to adopt new diets, guided by various way of life (empirical, philosophical, etc), and spread via the media [29,33]. These changes include exclusion diets like VD. Adopting a VD pattern could induce some effects on the digestion process [34][35][36], and even on digestive diseases: Crowe and colleagues have shown that consuming a VD and a high intake of dietary fibre were both associated with a lower risk of admission to hospital or death from diverticular disease [37]. Moreover, the beneficial effects of a VD on inflammatory bowel diseases (and in particular the prevention of relapses) are increasingly considered [38,39]. ...
Background
There is growing interest in using diet counselling in the management of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Among new emerging diets, vegetarian diets (VD) seem to be experiencing an important popularity, partly because of their alleged health benefits. A recent study performed among a rural Indian population showed that predominant VD could be associated with IBS.
Objective
This cross-sectional study aimed at assessing the association between the VD and IBS, among a large French cohort, the NutriNet-santé study.
Methods
Subjects participating in the NutriNet-Santé cohort study completed a questionnaire based on Rome III criteria (N = 41,682). Anthropometrics, socio-demographical and lifestyle data, including VD, were collected prior to the completion of Rome III questionnaire via self-administered questionnaires. Association between VD and IBS and its subtypes was investigated through multivariate logistic regression.
Results
The included subjects were mainly women (78.0%) and the mean age was 49.8±14.3 years. Among these individuals, 2,264 (5.4%) presented an IBS, and 805 (1.9%) reported a VD. Overall, VD was not associated with IBS or subtypes. A stable VD (i.e. self-declared at least three times) was associated with IBS (aOR 2.60 95%CI [1.37–4.91]), IBS mixed (aOR 2.97 95%CI [1.20–7.36]) and IBS diarrhoea (aOR 2.77 95%CI [1.01–7.59]).
Conclusions
This study suggests that a long term VD could be associated with IBS. Nevertheless, further studies are needed to confirm these results, and investigate the multiple aspects of the vegetarian diet, possibly related to the IBS.
Functional constipation (FC) in women may differ from FC in men in prevalence, symptoms, and pathophysiology. The prevalence of FC is about twice as high in women as in men. Women with FC have more infrequent bowel movements, hard stools, unsuccessful attempts at evacuation, and used anal digitation to evacuate stool than men. The frequency of abdominal pain or bloating is also higher in women with constipation than in men. In pathophysiology, differences have been reported, particularly in relation to sex hormones and brain activity. Women with slow transit constipation were shown to have abnormalities in the serotonin signaling system, suggesting that the condition is related to the overexpression of progesterone receptors rather than the direct effect of progesterone. Female patients with constipation also had lower insula-lateral orbital frontal cortex connectivity than male patients, as well as an inverse correlation between the resting-state functional connectivity of the insula-lateral orbital frontal cortex and anxiety. These findings suggest that the lack of ability to control visceral sensations and negative emotions in women compared to men may be related to the higher prevalence of constipation in females. In addition, gender differences have been reported in the characteristics of pelvic floor dysfunction in patients with FC.KeywordsFunctional constipationGenderSex hormone
