Machine learning accurately predicts food exchange list and the exchangeable portion.

Introduction: Food Exchange Lists (FELs) are a user-friendly tool developed to help individuals aid healthy eating habits and follow a specific diet plan. Given the rapidly increasing number of new products or access to new foods, one of the biggest challenges for FELs is being outdated. Supervised machine learning algorithms could be a tool that facilitates this process and allows for updated FELs-the present study aimed to generate an algorithm to predict food classification and calculate the equivalent portion.

The consumption of antioxidants protects against cognitive and physical disabilities in aged with obesity.

Introduction: antioxidants play an important role in the antioxidant defense system. Obesity and the aging process increase oxidative stress. The disruption of the oxidant-antioxidant balance towards oxidant condition could be related to cognitive and physical disabilities.

Community Health Workers-Promotores de Salud in Mexico: History and Potential for Building Effective Community Actions.

This article takes a historical perspective combining 3 illustrative examples of the origins of the community health worker (CHW) model in Mexico, as a community-based participatory strategy. Three examples were identified from the sparse literature about CHWs in Mexico emphasizing their key roles and functions in various community settings. The CHW models illustrate what is known of training-development and planning, implementation, and evaluation of the CHWs model in different settings addressing cardiovascular disease and risk factors.

Association between Apolipoprotein E Variants and Obesity-Related Traits in Mexican School Children.

Background/aim: Genetic variation in apolipoprotein E (ApoE) has a key role in lipid metabolism. However, its contribution to the amount and distribution of body fat is under investigation. The aim of this study was to analyze the association between genetic variation in ApoE and obesity-related traits in Mexican school children.

Improving heart healthy lifestyles among participants in a Salud para su Corazón promotores model: the Mexican pilot study, 2009-2012.

Introduction: In Mexico, cardiovascular disease and its risk factors are growing problems and major public health concerns. The objective of this study was to implement cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention activities of the Salud para su Corazón model in a high-risk, impoverished, urban community in Mexico City.

Methods: We used a pretest-posttest (baseline to 12-week follow-up) design without a control group.

Clinimetric testing in mexican elders: associations with age, gender, and place of residence.

Aim: To evaluate the ability of five clinimetric instruments to discriminate between subjects >60 years of age living at home versus those living in a residency.

Methods: Trained nutritionists applied five instruments (cognition/depression/functionality/nutrition/appetite) to 285 subjects with majorities of women (64%), aged <80 years (61%), and home residents (54%).

Results: Multivariable regression models were generated for each instrument using age, gender, and residency as independent variables.

[Complementary feeding].

According to PAHO and WHO, supplementary feeding is the process that begins when human milk is insufficient to meet the nutritional needs of an infant and requires other foods and liquids. The decision to begin complementary feeding depends on socio-economic, physiological, nutritional and psychological factors. The maturation of the neuromuscular, gastrointestinal and renal system influences the chances of success of supplementary feeding.

[Nutrition and diabetes in the elderly].

The aging process conveys multiple changes in the organism, as well as changes in individual's surroundings. Such modifications make the appearance of this sufferance, diagnose, and treatment to be complex and different in the rest of the population. The last makes necessary the coordinated work of the multidisciplinary team, in which the diabetic senior, caretaker, or relative most be actively participants.

Health professionals' and dietetics practitioners' perceived effectiveness of fruit and vegetable parenting practices across six countries.

Fruit and vegetable intake may reduce the risk of some chronic diseases. However, many children consume less-than-recommended amounts of fruit and vegetables. Because health professionals and dietetics practitioners often work with parents to increase children's fruit and vegetable intake, assessing their opinions about the effectiveness of parenting practices is an important step in understanding how to promote fruit and vegetable intake among preschool-aged children.