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Physicians and health promotion
(Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2005-12-05)
Seeking the Recipe for Success in Distance Education: Lessons from a Nutrition Course
(2006)
There is much debate as to how best to exploit the potential of the internet when designing distance education (DE) courses; the "formula for success" is still to be determined. In this Darwinian struggle for "market share" ...
Population Nutrition, Health Promotion, and Government Policy
(Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ, 2006)
Development and validation of a knowledge test for health professionals regarding lifestyle modification
(Nutrition, 2003)
Objective: We wanted to develop and validate a test that assesses the knowledge and practices of health professionals (HPs) with regard to the role of nutrition, physical activity, and smoking cessation (lifestyle modification) ...
Food items consumed by students attending schools in different socio-economic areas in Cape Town, South Africa
(Nutrition, 2006)
Objective: We investigated the food consumption patterns of adolescent students at schools. Our findings are intended to reveal the overall nutritional quality of foods eaten by students at school, including foods brought ...
Selling Health in a Bottle: How Consumers are being Ripped Off
(Edmonton Journal, 2007-03-05)
Medical research: a bettor's guide
(American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2002)
Water: a neglected nutrient in the young child? A South African perspective
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2007)
Water is considered an essential nutrient because the body cannot produce enough water itself, by metabolism of food, to fulfil its need.When the quantity or quality of water is inadequate, health problems result, most ...
Antioxidants and disease: more questions than answers
(Nutrition Research, 2000)
Reactive oxygen species are widely believed to be involved in the etiology of many
diseases as indicated by the signs of oxidative stress seen in those diseases.
Conversely, antioxidants are believed to be protective. ...
Nutrition and disease: challenges of research design
(Nutrition, 2002)
This review discusses research methodology in the relation between diet and disease. Medical research
can be divided into two types: complex research (the detailed study of disease mechanisms using such
methods as ...