scholarly journals Dietary Habits and Choices of 4-to 6-Year-Olds: Do Children Have a Preference for Sweet Taste?

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 774
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Kostecka ◽  
Joanna Kostecka-Jarecka ◽  
Mariola Kowal ◽  
Izabella Jackowska
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Sweet Taste ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Taste Changes ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
Neutral Face ◽  
And Gender

Children develop food preferences by coming into direct contact with various food products through the senses of taste, touch, sight and smell. The aim of this study was to analyze the food preferences of children aged 4 to 6 years and to determine whether age and gender influence children’s food preferences and whether the preference for sweet taste changes with age. The study involved a paper questionnaire containing images of 115 different food products and dishes. The respondents expressed their preferences by choosing the appropriate emoji (happy, sad or neutral face). The study was conducted between 2018 and 2020, and it involved 684 children from 10 kindergartens. Girls chose a significantly higher number of foods and dishes they liked than boys (p = 0.002), and 4-year-olds gave a higher number of “neutral” responses than 5- and 6-year-olds (p = 0.001). Dietary diversity increased with age, and younger children were familiar with fewer foods than 6-year-olds (p = 0.002). Children had a clear preference for sweet taste, regardless of age and gender. Young children (4-year-olds) were more likely to accept healthy foods despite the fact that they were familiar with fewer products and dishes.

scholarly journals Oral lesions in patients with psychiatric disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 138 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 564-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Jovanovic ◽  
Ivanka Gajic ◽  
Bojan Mandic ◽  
Jelena Mandic ◽  
Vlada Radivojevic
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Facial Pain ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Medical Documentation ◽  
Oral Lesions ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Taste Changes ◽  
Swallowing Difficulties ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Healthy Persons

Introduction. Oral diseases in psychiatric patients are usually a result of bad oral hygiene and psychopharmaceutical side-effects. Objective. The aim of this study was to detect oral lesions in patients hospitalized in psychiatric institutions with the confirmed diagnosis of psychiatric illness and mood disorder with psychotic characteristics, as well as to discover the factors that can influence these oral lesions. Methods. Cross-section study consisted of 186 hospitalized patients with psychiatric disorders in the experimental group, out of whom 87 were males and 99 females. Patients were aged from 18 to 59 years, mean age 46.0?8.0 years. The control group consisted of 186 healthy persons matched for age and gender. Data on oral lesions were obtained within history and clinical examination of the oral cavity. Other medical data were collected from medical documentation. Statistical analysis was performed by Student?s t-test, chi-square test and logistic regression. Results. Dry mouth was registered in 78.5% of patients. The difference in tongue and lip lesions, burning and stinging symptoms, bruxism, facial pain, low saliva rates, halitosis, taste changes and swallowing difficulties between the patients and healthy persons was highly statistically significant (p<0.001). Age and gender, as well as the factors of main disease, influence burning and stinging, bruxism, low saliva rates, swallowing difficulties, taste changes and facial pain of the psychiatric patients. Conclusion. Results imply that psychiatric patients are more frequently involved with oral lesions than healthy persons. It is necessary to organize specific preventive and educational oral health programmes with these patients, as well as with doctors who treat the basic illness.

Age and gender influence on foveal avascular zone in healthy eyes

2019 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 107856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Gómez-Ulla ◽  
Paula Cutrin ◽  
Paz Santos ◽  
Maribel Fernandez ◽  
Maximino Abraldes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foveal Avascular Zone ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
Avascular Zone ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Healthy Eyes

Hypothyroidism among females and differences in their dietary patterns and urinary iodine concentrations compared to normal subjects

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nidhi Budhalakoti ◽  
Kalpana Kulshrestha
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Urinary Iodine ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Iodine Concentration ◽  
Urinary Iodine Concentration ◽  
Endocrine Disorders ◽  
Dietary Intakes ◽  
Significant Difference

Thyroid disorders are among the most common endocrine disorders in India. Hypothyroidism is a very common condition. The condition is more common in women than in men, and its incidence increases with age. For the present study 150 females of 21 to 50 years of age were selected via random sampling from Pantnagar area of Udham Singh Nagar District, Uttarakhand and were interviewed using a predesigned proforma. The subjects mainly belonged to middle and upper income groups. Among 150 subjects, 30 were found to be suffering from hypothyroidism of which six were the newly diagnosed cases who had not started medications. Subjects were assessed for their dietary intakes and differences in the food habits based on food avoidance, food preferences, dietary habits and dietary diversity scores. Based on the analysis of the dietary intakes of normal (n=120) and hypothyroid (n=30) subjects not much difference was found, as was also evident from the dietary diversity scores (where non-significant difference was observed) except for in case of some dietary habits which showed significant differences. The mean dietary diversity scores of hypothyroid and normal subjects were 5.8±0.88 and 6.0±0.90 respectively. Urine samples were also collected for the measurement of urinary iodine concentration of only 30 subjects which included six of the newly detected hypothyroid cases not on medication and the remaining 24 normal subjects. Only 2 hypothyroid subjects and 3 normal subjects were found to be suffering from mild iodine deficiency with values of urinary iodine ranging from 76.5 to 94.6µg/l. Median urine iodine excretion in the present study was 172 µg/l (mean 186.5±58.4 µg/l) indicating iodine sufficiency.

Depression, the Val66Met polymorphism, age, and gender influence the serum BDNF level

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1118-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betina Elfving ◽  
Henriette N. Buttenschøn ◽  
Leslie Foldager ◽  
Pia H.P. Poulsen ◽  
Johan H. Andersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bdnf Level ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Val66met Polymorphism ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Serum Bdnf

scholarly journals How Age and Gender Influence Proximal Humerus Fracture Management in Patients over Fifty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akshar H. Patel ◽  
J. Heath Wilder ◽  
Sione A. Ofa ◽  
Olivia C. Lee ◽  
Michael C. Iloanya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Proximal Humerus Fracture ◽  
Proximal Humerus ◽  
Humerus Fracture ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
Fracture Management ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals A Corpus-based Study of the Use of Pause Fillers Among British English Speakers

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 09-16
Author(s):  
Dr. Hamad Abdullah H Aldawsari
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
British English ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
And Gender ◽  
National Corpus

Many people use pause fillers such as um, erm, and er in order to signal to the other person that they have not finished speaking yet. This paper aims to investigate pause fillers and their relationship with the two sociolinguistic variables of age and gender. The data-driven analysis is based on the British National Corpus (BNC). The results show that the sociolinguistic variables of age and gender influence the use of pause fillers among British English speakers, which is proposed to be linked to the advancement of age and an improved fluency among female speakers.

scholarly journals Age and gender influence on HIDRAdisk outcomes in adalimumab‐treated hidradenitis suppurativa patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (S6) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
G. Fabbrocini ◽  
C. Marasca ◽  
M. Megna ◽  
K. Peris ◽  
P. Amerio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hidradenitis Suppurativa ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Gestational age and gender influence on executive control and its related neural structures in preterm-born children at 6 years of age

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Urben ◽  
Laurence Van Hanswijck De Jonge ◽  
Koviljka Barisnikov ◽  
Roxane Pizzo ◽  
Maryline Monnier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gestational Age ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender Influence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Preterm Born
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