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Food behavior, social aspects, and nutritional status in romania
Tarcea, M.; Matran, I. M.; Martin-Hadmas, R.; Fazakas, Z.; Guiné, Raquel P. F.Introduction. Health status is directly linked with nutritional status, life style and food behaviour. There are 4 Health Indicators: Health Conscience, Health Information Orientation, Health-Oriented Beliefs, and Healthy Activities. People who are health conscious have a positive attitude towards preventive measures such as healthy eating. Health information refers to the extent to which an individual is willi...
Cluster analysis to the factors related to information about food fi bers: A mul...
Guiné, Raquel; Correia, Paula; Leal, M.; Rumbak, I.; Baric, I.; Komes, D.; Satalic, Z.; Saric, M.; Tarcea, M.; Fazakas, Z.; jovanoska, D.; Vanevski, D.The adequate intake of dietary fibres is essential to human health. Hence, this work intended to evaluate the level knowledge of about food fibres and investigate what factors might be associated with it. It was undertaken a descriptive cross-sectional study on a sample composed of 6,010 participants from ten different countries. The survey was based on a questionnaire of self-response, approved and complying w...
Information, Perceptions and Motivations for Healthy Eating on a Group of Europ...
Guiné, Raquel; Correia, Paula; Ferreira, Manuela; Duarte, João; Cardoso, Ana Paula; Bartkiene, E.; Lele, v.; Starkute, v.; Juodeikiene, G.This is an original research work that is a part of the EATMOT project, which aims to study the eating motivations of different nature in a set of countries all over the world. In this work will be presented some results of the project, regarding three major areas: perceptions about healthy eating, sources of information about healthy diet and healthy motivations for food choice. This is a longitudinal observat...
Comparison of the ingestion of fibre rich foods in different countries
Florença, Sofia G.; Leal, M.; Rumbak, I.; Baric, I.; Komes, D.; Satalic, D.; Saric, M.; Tarcea, M.; Fazakas, Z.; Szucks, V.; Harangozo, J.; Klava, D.Introduction: The ingestion of fruits, vegetables and cereals, especially whole grain, is associated with a healthy lifestyle and has been recognized as having multiple health benefits, associated, among others, to the ingestion of adequate amounts of dietary fibre. Objective: The aim of this work was to evaluate some eating habits related to fibre rich foods in six different countries: Argentina, Croatia, Hung...
Level of information about dietary fibre: a study involving 10 Countries
Guiné, Raquel; Leal, Marcela; Rumbak, I.; Baric, I.; Komes, D.; Satalic, Z.; Saric, M.; Tarcea, M.; Fazakas, Z.; Jovanoska, D.; Vanevski, D.; Yalcin, E.Introduction: Dietary fibre (DF) is recognized as healthy for long, so that health claims are allowed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) due to its proved benefits, extended but not only confined to many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Objective: This work intended to analyse the level of information about DF in 10 countries, situated in Europe, Africa and South America. Methods: A descriptive...
Factor and cluster analysis to knowledge about dietary fibre
Guiné, Raquel; Correia, Paula; Klava, D.; Straumite, E.; Szűcs, V.; Harangozó, J.; Tarcea, M.; Fazakas, Z.; Rumbak, I.; Barić, I. C.; Komes, D.The present study was aimed at investigating what are the people’s levels of information about dietary fibre (DF) and how they relate to some fators that result from the people’s perceptions associated with the knowledge about DF. The study consisted of a descriptive cross-sectional survey undertaken on a sample of over 6 thousand participants, original from 10 countries. Statistical techniques like factor anal...
Knowledge and attitudes towards dietary fibers - romania vs other european coun...
Tarcea, M.; Fazakas, Z.; Ruta, F.; Rus, V.; Guiné, RaquelAim: The aim of our study was to evaluate the Romanian’s knowledge and attitudes regarding dietary fibers compared with other European countries. Materials and methods: We made a cross-sectional survey (part of multinational project from CI&DETS Research Centre, Instituto Politecnico Viseu, Portugal, with reference PROJ/CI&DETS/2014/0001) based on a questionnaire applied in 2015, over 670 Romanian consumers, fo...
Knowledge about dietary fibres (KADF): development and validation of an evaluat...
Guiné, Raquel; Duarte, J.; Ferreira, M.; Correia, P.; Leal, M.; Rumbak, I.; Barić, I.C.; Komes, D.; Satalić, Z.; Sarić, M.M.; Tarcea, M.; Fazakas, Z.Objectives: Because there is scientific evidence that an appropriate intake of dietary fibre should be part of a healthy diet, given its importance in promoting health, the present study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to evaluate the knowledge of the general population about dietary fibres. Study design: The present study was a cross sectional study. Methods: The methodological study of psychometri...
Romanian Knowledge and Attitudes regarding Dietary Fibers
Tarcea, M.; Fazakas, Z.; Ruta, F.; Rus, V.; Zugravu, C.; Guiné, RaquelPresently, the scientists recognize the health benefits of food fibers in the menu and also plant food sources are at high interest both for general population and food companies. The food companies are responsible for a clear nutrition labelling that will assist consumers to make informed and healthy choices and health providers has to inform the population about the benefits of fibers.The aim of our study was...
Consumers knowledge about dietary fibre : Results of a survey questionnaire in ...
Szűcs, V.; Fazakas, Z.; Tarcea, M.; Guiné, RaquelDietary fi bres (DFs) are essential components of the balanced diet. Even though the adequate level of their consumption can be ensured from several natural (e.g. fruit, vegetables, legumes) and ‘artifi cial’ sources (e.g. functional foods), the consumed levels are below the recommendations. To analyse the Hungarian and Romanian consumers’ knowledge level, their perceptions of the health benefi ts associated with ...