Nutritional culture and the level of health awareness among students of the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences by Maha Sahib Abd, Fatima Faak Juma

“…According to the educational stage variable and the economic level, and in light of this study, I recommend paying attention to spreading health and nutritional culture among the segments of society through modern means and satellite channels, as well as urging the introduction of health and nutritional awareness within the school curricula and refraining from consuming ready food and soft drinks and replacing them with fresh food and fruits, especially in Nowadays, the trend has become to eat fast foods, especially among university students.…”
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The health system barriers to a healthy diet in Iran. by Mohammad Amerzadeh, Amirhossein Takian, Hamed Pouraram, Ali Akbari Sari, Afshin Ostovar

“…Supreme Council of Health and Food Security (SCHFS); the MoHME's inadequate stewardship of public health, the short life of the deputy of social affairs within the MoHME and its possible impact on the National Health Assembly; inefficient traffic lights labelling for foods; lack of adequate policies and guidelines for monitoring restaurants and fast foods and insufficient incentive policies for the food industry.…”
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Food consumption frequency and perceived stress and depressive symptoms among students in three European countries by Maxwell Annette E, El Ansari Walid, Mikolajczyk Rafael T

“…In females, perceived stress was associated with more frequent consumption of sweets/fast foods and less frequent consumption of fruits/vegetables. …”
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FTO is expressed in neurones throughout the brain and its expression is unaltered by fasting. by McTaggart, J, Lee, S, Iberl, M, Church, C, Cox, R, Ashcroft, F

“…Thus, it is unlikely that the hunger and increased post-fasting food intake caused by such food deprivation is driven by alterations in Fto/FTO expression. …”

Cardiovascular risk behavior among students of a Medical College in Delhi by N Rustagi, D K Taneja, P Mishra, G K Ingle

“…Consumption of carbonated soft drinks either once or more on daily basis was present in 23.7% students and 32.0% reported frequent consumption of fast foods in past week. Consumption of alcohol was present in 28.8% students but only small proportion of students (7%) was current tobacco users. …”
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Perception, environmental determinants, and health complications of excess weight in India: a mixed methods approach by Somdutta Barua, Nandita Saikia

“…Participants suggested raising awareness, promoting and making access to healthy food and wellness programs more accessible, and regulating fast foods and sugary beverages at institutional, community and social/public policy levels to prevent obesity. …”
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Wholesome ayurvedic diet and lifestyle for Sthaulya (Obesity): A review article by Kiran Krishniya, Bharatkumar Chhaganbhai Padhar, Ram Kishor Joshi, Sunita Rawat

“…Objective: Sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy dietary habit such as excessive intake of fast foods, cold-drinks, liquors, smoking, irregularity of diet intake are the major causative factors for many lifestyle diseases such as obesity, which disturbs physical, mental as well as social health of an individual. …”
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The relationship between food frequency and menstrual distress in high school females by Soheila Mohamadirizi, Masoumeh Kordi

“…In addition, the mean (SD) values for sweet–fatty foods, salty–fatty foods, fast foods, and caffeine were 3.6, 3.3, 1.3, and 10.2 per week, respectively. …”
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Modifiable lifestyle factors and ovarian cancer incidence in women by Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman, Karolina Chmaj-Wierzchowska, Beata Pięta, Iwona Bojar

“…It is recommended that the consumption of popular fast foods be eliminated.…”
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Correlates of depression among school going adolescents in the urban area of Patna in eastern India by Dharmvir R Bharati, Seema Kumari, Nidhi Prasad, Sanjay K Choudhary, Sanjay Kumar, Ranabir Pal

“…Adolescent depression was significantly associated in our study with female gender, late adolescence, higher classes (9th–11th), vegetarian diet, soft drink consumption, fast foods, screen time, domestic harassment, academic dissatisfaction, parental discord as well as mental illness. …”
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Validity and reliability of a Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) assessing food groups consumption and nutrients intake in Costa Rican adolescents by Rafael Monge-Rojas, Ricardo Alvarado-Barrantes, Rulamán Vargas-Quesada, Anne Chinnock

“…The cross-classification was good for 24 of 26 nutrients and for 12 of the 21 food groups, and the weighted kappa showed an acceptable discriminant ability of the FFQ to categorize individuals into broad nutrient intake (except for protein and cholesterol) and food groups categories (dairy products, white rice, beans, vegetables, fruits and fruit juice, sugary drinks, breakfast cereal, candies and sweets, snacks, fast foods, fat, and ice cream). Conclusions: The FFQ designed for Costa Rican adolescents was unable to assess absolute dietary intakes; however, it is a reasonable tool to categorize adolescents into broad ranges of dietary intakes and could be used to evaluate dietary patterns in epidemiological studies of diet-disease associations. …”
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Survey the effects of dietary sodium nitrite on the histological changes of the aortic artery in the adult male rats by Saeaid Khatamsaz, Fatemeh Juibar

“…Background: Because of high consumption of nitrite in processed (fast) foods and high level of nitrite in water, soil and ecosystem, nitrite can endanger humans health. …”
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DEMAND AND MARKET CONCENTRATION FOR BRANDED SAUSAGE ROLLS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA by Adejoke Modinat Adedeji, Fatai Abiola Sowunmi

“…Branded sausage is one of the fast foods, and the demand for it in Nigeria is increasing substantially due to growing household affluence and its availability and affordability. …”
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Association of Meat Intake with Overweight and Obesity among School-aged Children and Adolescents by Sun Mi Shin

“…After adjusting for confounding variables, including age; consumption of instant noodles, soft drinks and fast foods, dairy products, and fruits and vegetables; and skipping breakfast, the odds ratios of overweight and obesity in the no meat intake/week group were 1.41 times higher (95% confidence interval, 1.04–1.85) than those in the daily meat intake/week group. …”
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A study of eating habits among female nursing students in the university of Babylon/Iraq by Salma KJ, Wafaa AA, Zainab A

“…Conclusion The study recommends that family can encourage their daughters to choose the healthiest food collections and schools, universities will assist in minimizing the consumption of fast foods and others.…”
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Yoga practice and choices of foods, physical activity, and leisure: A convenience sampling survey from India by Shirley Telles, Sachin Kumar Sharma, Kumar Gandharva, Kumari Prasoon, Acharya Balkrishna

“…Results: (1) Yoga practitioner respondents ate fruits and vegetables regularly (62.1%), did not consume animal source products (69.2%), alcohol (98.0%), or tobacco (98.4%), had a regular physical activity other than yoga (77.5%) and leisure activities (92.2%). (2) More than 150 min/week of yoga practice and experience of yoga exceeding 60 months was (a) significantly associated with (i) regular consumption of fruits and vegetables, (ii) lower consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, animal source foods, tobacco, and alcohol (P < 0.05, Chi-square test) and (b) not associated with physical activity or leisure activities (P > 0.05, Chi-square test). (3) Yoga practitioners excluded sugar-sweetened beverages, animal-source foods and fast foods from their diet, whereas they added fruits, vegetables, and plant-based juices to their diet, with earlier first and last meals for the day. …”
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Family influences on children's physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption by Crawford David, Salmon Jo, Timperio Anna, Pearson Natalie, Biddle Stuart JH

“…Boys whose parents reported high financial support for snacks/fast foods had higher odds of having 'high PA/low FV' (OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.1–3.7).…”
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Prevalence of Obesity among Teenagers of Rawalpindi/Islamabad by Saima Shaheen, Kanwal Zafar, Asra Khalid

“…Conclusion: Based on the findings, the current study suggests that increase in intake of fast foods could have a greater influence on the prevalence of overweight or obesity among teenagers but more physical activity incorporated into daily life and active lifestyle of teenagers; majority of teenagers have „normal‟ BMI. …”
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Dietary Choices and Habits during COVID-19 Lockdown: Experience from Poland by Aleksandra Sidor, Piotr Rzymski

“…Increased BMI was associated with less frequent consumption of vegetables, fruit, and legumes during quarantine, and higher adherence to meat, dairy, and fast-foods. An increase in alcohol consumption was seen in 14.6%, with a higher tendency to drink more found among alcohol addicts. …”
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Dreams of the rarebit fiend: Food and diet as instigators of bizarre and disturbing dreams by Tore eNielsen, Russell A. Powell

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