66 – Health effects of lifestyle interventions in obese children and adolescents study (HELIOS) randomised controlled trial
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Method: We asked those children (males and females aged between 10 and 15 years) 'what we mean by Mediterranean diet?'.Then we proposed a scenario: 'you are the director of a film stage in which a family, mother and father with their sons are eating at home; they live in fifties at the seaside and the father is a fisherman; now you put them around the table of their kitchen and write what we have to put in to realize this scene; if possible, explain also what kind of foods there were in pantry and in refrigerator'.Results: Seventy-nine children: nobody answered in a correct way to the question regarding Md.Only twenty-eight (about 35 %) put on the kitchen's table something according to Md: fish, bread, season vegetables, fruit and in some cases a simple dish of spaghetti with tomato sauce, water and red wine and olive oil.The others really only tried to put on that table all kinds of possible foods they know.Conclusions: Only few children recognize Md: they do not know either blue fish and its properties or vegetables and fruits.They do not think about simple bread and olives or pressed cheese at all.We recognize there is great need of education with practical examples, trying to teach nutritional properties of food in a more complete way to young people.
Source: Public Health Nutrition
Authors: Makkes, S., Halberstadt, J., Renders, C. M., Bosmans, J. E., Seidell, J. C., van der Baan-Slootweg, O. H.
Institution: Regione Piemonte
Language: English
Topic: Nutritional Studies and Diet
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2911338511