Recipe use impacts eating habits, yet there is limited research investigating the nutritional quality of recipes. Supermarket recipe magazines command large readerships, with over 4 million readers ...for each of the two major Australian supermarket publications. Assessing the nutrient content of featured recipes is therefore of public health interest. The nutrient content of 312 main-meal recipes from Coles® Magazine and Woolworths Fresh® were analyzed and compared against a traffic-light system for classifying nutrients of concern in chronic disease. Nutrient content was compared across recipe type (standard, advertorial and celebrity) and between recipes with and without health or nutrient claims. Overall compliance with the traffic-light criteria was low, with less than half of recipes meeting the target. Advertorial recipes had a higher energy (p = 0.001), saturated fat (p = 0.045) and sodium (p ≤ 0.001) content per serve, and per 100 g for sodium (p ≤ 0.001) compared to standard and celebrity recipes. Recipes with claims had greater compliance to the nutrient criteria (p < 0.001) compared to those without. These findings support previous research highlighting the poor nutritional quality of published recipes from a variety of sources.
Community treatment orders: towards a new research agenda Brophy, Lisa; Edan, Vrinda; Gooding, Piers ...
Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists,
06/2018, Letnik:
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Objectives:
The aim of this study was to report on a half-day multi-stakeholder symposium on community treatment orders (CTOs) hosted by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute (MSEI), which identified ...research gaps and opportunities, and produced an agreed agenda for future CTO research.
Methods:
The MSEI convened a symposium for 22 experts in CTO research to discuss research priorities in this field in Australasia. An independent moderator elicited views and recommendations and produced a report detailing possible research projects.
Results:
Research on CTOs is contentious and there is a need to gather and examine information regarding both their use and utility. Due to the complexities involved, it was agreed that research should be undertaken in partnership with persons with had lived experience of mental health problems, clinicians, policymakers and other interdisciplinary stakeholders. Five key areas for future investigation were identified.
Conclusions:
The issues and recommendations arising from the symposium should shape the scope, nature and conduct of future research directions in the field.
Excess weight is a major risk factor for chronic diseases. In Australia, over 60% of adults are overweight or obese. The overconsumption of energy-dense nutrient-poor (EDNP) foods and low physical ...activity (PA) levels are key factors contributing to population obesity. New cost-effective approaches to improve population diet and PA behaviors are needed.
This 1-year randomized controlled trial (6-month intervention and 6-month follow-up) aims to investigate whether a tailored intervention using mobile technology can improve diet and PA behaviors leading to weight loss in adults (aged 18-65 years) who are overweight or obese and recruited through a social marketing campaign (LiveLighter).
All eligible participants will provide data on demographics and lifestyle behaviors online at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. Using two-stage randomization, participants will be allocated into one of three conditions (n=200 per group): tailored feedback delivered via email at seven time points, informed by objective dietary (mobile food record app) and activity (wearable activity monitor) assessment; active control receiving no tailored feedback, but undergoing the same objective assessments as tailored feedback; and online control receiving no tailored feedback or objective assessments. Primary outcome measures at 6 and 12 months are changes in body mass, EDNP food and beverage consumption, and daily moderate-to-vigorous PA (measured via accelerometry). Secondary outcomes include change in fruit and vegetable consumption, daily sedentary behaviors, and cost effectiveness.
Enrolment commenced in August 2017. Primary outcomes at 12 months will be available for analysis from September 2019.
Tailored email feedback provided to individuals may deliver a cost-effective strategy to overcome existing barriers to improving diet and PA. If found to be successful and cost effective, upscaling this intervention for inclusion in larger-scale interventions is highly feasible.
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12617000554369; https://www.anzctr.org.au /Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=371325&isReview=true.
DERR1-10.2196/12782.
Slash and burn agriculture is the dominant form of agriculture in the tropics. However, increasing population growth has led to the intensification of this form of agriculture. The potential impacts ...of this on faunal diversity, however, have never been studied. This thesis aimed to fully understand how slash and burn agriculture affects ant communities and the underlying processes determining their assembly in Madagascar. This research shows that at the regional scale, geographical distance was the most important factor influencing ant communities in habitats associated with slash and burn agriculture. Additionally, environmental filtering was also shown to affect community composition, as across sites there was a significant correlation between morphological traits and environmental variables. Slash and burn agriculture was also shown to lead to declines in the ant species richness and increases in abundance and richness of introduced ant species. Correlations between the richness and abundance of introduced species and native species in this thesis, however, suggest that this was not causative. Additionally, slash and burn agriculture also led to a reduction in function diversity, functional evenness, as well as reduced ranges of body size, leg length and mandible size. This suggests that the diverse range of functional roles provided by ants was also affected by this form of agriculture. Finally, this thesis examines the benefits of natural regeneration and active reforestation for ant communities. Results show that natural regeneration was more effective at restoring functional diversity, whereas natural regeneration was more effective at restoring species diversity back to levels found in closed canopy forest. Neither, however were capable of restoring the community composition found in closed canopy forest. Given the need for restoring and conserving functional ecosystems, this thesis suggests that active reforestation should be adopted in areas of most importance, i.e. areas which could increase connectivity between remnant forest patches.
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