Adherence to Mediterranean diet in Moroccan school-age adolescents: sociodemographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle determinants.

Background: Despite its benefits, the Mediterranean diet (MD) is abandoned or not adopted by the younger generations in most Mediterranean countries.

Objective: The aim here was to examine some factors determining adherence to MD in Moroccan school-age adolescents.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a school setting among 386 students (148 boys and 238 girls), aged 14 to 18 years, randomly selected and from different socioeconomic strata.

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet in two Moroccan populations living at different distances from the Mediterranean Sea.

Background: There is growing strong scientific evidence over the past few decades that the Mediterranean diet (MD) has protective effects on cardiometabolic health.

Objective: This study aimed to assess MD adherence and its association with sociodemographic and lifestyle factors among women living in two Moroccan provinces, El Jadida and Tetouan, located at different distances from the Mediterranean Sea.

Material And Methods: It is a cross-sectional study involved 355 subjects of which 55.

Meal intake in an adult Moroccan population: determinants and implications for weight status.

Background: In recent decades, the Moroccan population has changed its dietary practices, particularly those related to meal-taking. It is about irregular meal schedules, reduced frequency and shorter time of meal taking times, as well as a decrease in family meal-taking. All these factors are likely to influence its nutritional status.

Opinion on weight management in the age of new technologies.

In a Moroccan context characterized by the resurgence of metabolic diseases and over nutrition, an emergence of digital media in the daily life of individuals, has led to the expansion of the use of digital diets for therapeutic or aesthetic purposes. This work raises the question of the effectiveness of unguided nutritional approaches and the associated consequences, with potential effects on the health of individuals.

Comparison of OSL and TL dosimetry systems against IEC and ICRP standards.

Personal and environmental radiation monitoring services are widely used through luminescent techniques. In this paper, we practiced performance testing on thermoluminescent and optically stimulated luminescent dosimeters by assessing their homogeneity, linearity, energy, and angular dependence tests. The IEC and ICRP requirements were used to compare the performance response of dosimeters.

Assessment of diet quality in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Background: Micronutrient malnutrition is a serious public health problem in most developing countries, including Morocco, due to poor and therefore lower quality diets that lack dietary diversity.

Objective: The present study aimed to assess dietary diversity and variety and their relationship with micronutrient adequacy in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried among 240 children and adolescents with T1D.

Assessment of nutritional status, dietary intake and adherence to dietary recommendations in type 1 diabetic children and adolescents.

Background: Currently, T1D is one of the most common chronic diseases in children and adolescents. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates that more than 1.1 million children and adolescents are living with (T1D).

Corrigendum to "Food Expenditure and Food Consumption before and during Ramadan in Moroccan Households".

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Nutritional status of sub-Saharans residing in the city of El Jadida - Morocco: weight in relation to socio-economic status.

Background: Onset of overweight and obesity has been previously reported as a result of population migration to western countries.

Objective: To determine the nutritional status, weight status and their association with socioeconomic status in sub-Saharan settled in El Jadida city in a Mediterranean country Morocco.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive study was carried out in 2018 on 256 sub-Saharans migrants living in the city of El Jadida in Morocco.

Prevalence of gestational diabetes and associated risk factors in the population of Safi Province in Morocco.

Introduction: the association of diabetes with pregnancy is a frequent gestational situation that constitutes a real public health problem with prevalence and risk factors varying according to the population type. The present study aims to determine the prevalence of gestational diabetes (GD) and associated risk factors (socio-demographic characteristics, medical and obstetric history) in pregnant women from the Moroccan province of Safi.

Methods: this cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was conducted during the period from October 2018 to February 2019, on 208 pregnant women, attending the antenatal consultation services of four health centers equally distributed between urban and rural areas of Safi Province in Morocco.

Food Expenditure and Food Consumption before and during Ramadan in Moroccan Households.

Fasting in the month of Ramadan is a religious, cultural, and social ritual for Muslims. The benefits it is supposed to provide to people who practice it are often impaired by unhealthy lifestyles including diet. The present research aimed to study risky eating behaviors and the variation in food expenditure of the Moroccan population during Ramadan.