Protein food avoidance behaviour among cancer patients - perspectives of nutrient intake and diet quality.

Background And Objectives: Previous study reported that high proportion of Chinese cancer patients practise food avoidance behaviour for fear of cancer recurrence. The present study aims at documenting the degree of food avoidance behaviours and its association with nutrient intake and diet quality among Chinese cancer patients.

Methods And Study Design: Cross-sectional face-to-face interviews were conducted with 245 patients suffering from nasopharyngeal and colorectal cancer to investigate their food avoidance behaviour.

Change in eating habits and physical activities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional study via random telephone survey.

Background: Hong Kong is a densely populated city with a low incidence and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The city imposed different levels of social distancing including, the closure of sports venues and restrictions on eateries. This inevitably affects the eating behaviour and physical activities of the population.

Comparing nutrient intake and body weight status amongst adolescent substance users, institutionalised abstainers and never users.

Background: Improved nutrition intake in drug rehabilitation programmes enhances quality sobriety and prevents relapses. However, little is known about the nutritional status of substance users and institutionalised abstainers. Previous nutritional studies have mainly focused on methamphetamine, whereas ketamine has not been investigated despite its popularity amongst adolescents.

Food-Related Health Emergency-Disaster Risk Reduction in Rural Ethnic Minority Communities: A Pilot Study of Knowledge, Awareness and Practice of Food Labelling and Salt-intake Reduction in a Kunge Community in China.

Food safety and unhealthy dietary pattern are important global health problems. Understanding food-related health needs and providing corresponding support are important to health risk reduction. A needs assessment, education intervention for food labelling, and another intervention for salt-intake reduction were conducted in a rural Kunge community in Yunnan, China in 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively.

Is "Perceived Water Insecurity" Associated with Disaster Risk Perception, Preparedness Attitudes, and Coping Ability in Rural China? (A Health-EDRM Pilot Study).

Water security is essential for maintaining health and well-being, and for reducing a population's vulnerability in a disaster. Among resource-poor villagers in China, water-related disasters and climate change may increasingly affect people's water security. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between perceived water security and disaster risk perception in a rural ethnic minority community.