54 documents found, page 1 of 6

Desenvolvimento de um novo instrumento online de avaliação do consumo alimentar...

Introduction: Twenty-four-hour dietary recall is the method of choice for assessing food intake among school-age children. Because they require highly trained interviewers, recalls are expensive and impractical for large-scale nutrition research. A new method for assessing dietary intake in children is being developed: the Portuguese self-administered computerized 24-hour dietary recall (PAC24). Objectives: To ...

Development of a new computer program to assess dietary intake in portuguese sc...

Introduction: Twenty-four-hour dietary recall is the method of choice for assessing food intake among school-age children. Because they require highly trained interviewers, recalls are expensive and impractical for large-scale nutrition research. A new method for assessing dietary intake in children is being developed: the Portuguese self-administered computerized 24-hour dietary recall (PAC24). Objectives: To ...

Necessidades energéticas em crianças

As crianças em idade escolar (6-10 anos) encontram-se em crescimento contínuo, sendo essencial a adopção de um padrão alimentar equilibrado e adequado às suas necessidades que deve compreender uma distribuição, em termos de aporte energético e nutricional, de acordo com os princípios de uma alimentação saudável – completa, variada e equilibrada. As necessidades de energia da criança dependem das necessidades im...

Childhood obesity and overweight prevalence trends in Portugal – COSI 2008 and ...

INTRODUCTION: Previous data indicated that the estimated prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity was above 30%, being Portugal one of the European countries with the highest prevalence. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to monitor trends in childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal, based on the first and second data collection (2008 and 2010) from the National Nutritional Surveillance System -...

Development of a new computer program to assess food consumption in Portuguese ...

Introduction: Food and nutrition are important determinants of non-communicable diseases such as childhood obesity. Understanding how to prevent this major public health problem remains a research question and the design of potentially effective interventions is hampered by the general lack of good-quality data. There is no validated method available to assess food and nutrition intake in school age Portuguese ...

Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: COSI Portugal 2010

A obesidade infantil apresenta-se como um dos mais sérios problemas de saúde pública, quer no espaço Europeu, quer no resto do mundo. A taxa de crescimento desta doença tem-se mantido constante, acrescentando 400000 crianças por ano, aos já existentes 40-50 milhões de crianças com excesso de peso. A Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), no seguimento da aprovação da Carta Europeia de Luta Contra a Obesidade, lanç...

Efeito de um projeto de base comunitária e familiar nos conhecimentos sobre ali...

Introdução: A obesidade infantil apresenta cada vez maiores prevalências em todo o mundo. Alguns projetos, de base comunitária, têm apresentado resultados positivos na prevenção desta problemática. A carência em conhecimentos sobre alimentação e nutrição e as atitudes alimentares parecem aumentar o risco para o desenvolvimento da obesidade infantil. Objectivo: Avaliar o efeito de um projeto de base comunitária ...

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Portuguese children (6-8 years old) ...

Introduction: Previous studies places Portugal among the five countries with the highest prevalence of childhood obesity in Europe. This paper describes the prevalence of thinness, overweight and obesity in Portuguese children of 6-8 years of age, based on the first data collection from COSI Portugal, which took place during the 2007/2008 school year. Methods: Semi-longitudinal design with repeated cross-sectio...

Características socioeconómicas e obesidade infantil no âmbito do projeto comun...

Hábitos de pequeno-almoço em crianças portuguesas dos 6 aos 8 anos

Introduction: Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day. Given the association of childhood obesity with less frequent breakfast consumption and since Portuguese studies on this subject are still scarce, the present study assesses breakfast consumption among Portuguese school age children and its association with obese and overweight children. Methods: The analysis was undertaken on data from t...