Effects of lifestyle intervention on dietary intake, physical activity level, and gestational weight gain in pregnant women with different pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index in a randomized control trial.

Background: The objectives of this study were to assess the efficacy of lifestyle intervention on gestational weight gain in pregnant women with normal and above normal body mass index (BMI) in a randomized controlled trial.

Methods: A total of 116 pregnant women (<20 weeks of pregnancy) without diabetes were enrolled and 113 pregnant women completed the program. Participants were randomized into intervention and control groups.

Barriers and coping strategies of women with gestational diabetes to follow dietary advice.

Objective: To understand barriers and coping strategies of women with gestational diabetes (GDM) to follow dietary advice.

Design: Qualitative study.

Participants: Thirty women with GDM from the Winnipeg area participated.

Stress and anxiety in women with gestational diabetes during dietary management.

Purpose: To explore the stress and anxiety experiences during dietary management in women with gestational diabetes (GDM).

Methods: Thirty women with GDM from the Winnipeg area participated in the mixed methods study. Each participant completed a Food Choice Map semistructured interview, a Perceived Stress Scale, a Pregnancy Anxiety Scale, a State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait questionnaire, and a demographic questionnaire.

Food choice decision-making by women with gestational diabetes.

Objective: To enhance the dietary education presented to women with gestational diabetes (GDM) by exploring the reasons and experiences that women with GDM reported in making their food-choice decisions after receipt of dietary education from a healthcare professional.

Methods: Food Choice Map (FCM) semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 women with GDM living in the Winnipeg area during their pregnancies. Verbatim transcripts were generated from the interviews.

Low vegetable intake is associated with allergic asthma and moderate-to-severe airway hyperresponsiveness.

Background: In recent decades, children's diet quality has changed and asthma prevalence has increased, although it remains unclear if these events are associated.

Objective: To examine children's total and component diet quality and asthma and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), a proxy for asthma severity.

Methods: Food frequency questionnaires adapted from the Nurses' Health Study and supplemented with foods whose nutrients which have garnered interest of late in relation to asthma were administered.

"Asthma isn't an excuse, it's just a condition": youths' perceptions of physical activity and screen time.

Objective: During puberty, physical activity patterns begin to decline, while sedentary time increases. These changes may be confounded by asthma. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into youths' perceptions of screen time and physical activity by asthma status.

'Trying to make it all come together': structuration and employed mothers' experience of family food provisioning in Canada.

This research examined the aetiology of employed mothers' food choice and food provisioning decisions using a qualitative, grounded theory methodology. Semi-structured interviews using the Food Choice Map were conducted with eleven middle-income employed mothers of elementary school-age children. Results demonstrated that the women exhibited conflicting identities with respect to food choice and provisioning.

The growing Canadian energy gap: more the can than the couch?

Objective: The present study describes the trajectory of the energy gap (energy imbalance) in the Canadian population from 1976 to 2003, its temporal relationship to adult obesity, and estimates the relative contribution of energy availability and expenditure to the energy gap. It also assesses which foods contributed the most to changes in available energy over the study period.

Design: Annual estimates of the energy gap were derived by subtracting population-adjusted per capita daily estimated energy requirements (derived from Dietary Reference Intakes) from per capita daily estimated energy available (obtained from food balance sheets).

Folate status of young Canadian women after folic acid fortification of grain products.

Women of childbearing age are advised to consume folic acid-containing supplements. Whether this remains necessary after folic acid fortification of the food supply in North America has yet to be determined. The objectives of this study were to assess folate intakes and the contribution of folic acid to the diets of women of childbearing age in the post-folic acid fortification era.

Validation of a food choice map with a 3-day food record and serum values to assess folate and vitamin B-12 intake in college-aged women.

Background: Estimates of dietary folate and vitamin B-12 intakes are currently of considerable interest, but a valid assessment method that is faster than those currently available would better suit everyday health promotion activities.

Objective: To validate a new assessment technique for estimating folate and vitamin B-12 intakes, known as the Food Choice Map (FCM), using serum folate and vitamin B-12 concentrations in a group of 95 women aged 18 to 25 years.

Design: The FCM tool was used in a cross-sectional study design to estimate the usual folate and vitamin B-12 intakes of each participant.

Documenting the reasons people have for choosing their food.

Understanding the reasons that people have for choosing their food, and why these choices vary, may affect the dietary advice and assumptions about the nutrient adequacy of future food intake. One group of respondents living in Jakarta, Indonesia completed two interviews with the same combined food frequency and qualitative technique, called Food Choice Map (FCM) over a one-month period. Another group of Indonesian respondents from a town in Java completed an FCM interview and a 24-hour recall interview.

Complementary feeding patterns in Pondok Labu, South Jakarta, Indonesia.

This paper explores the sociocultural aspects in the reasons mothers gave for terminating exclusive breastfeeding. These sociocultural aspects were anticipated to influence the variance between actual breastfeeding practice and the current recommendations for exclusive breastfeeding. The complementary feeding patterns and the reasons for introducing complementary foods were assessed using a dietary recall called the Food Choice Map, in a sample of 40 mothers living in a sub-district of South Jakarta.