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Family meals and body weight in US adultsJeffery Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Room 303 MVR Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Public Health Nutr 14:1555-62. 2011..We examined the prevalence and predictors of adult family meals and body weight outcomes...
Marital status changes and body weight changes: a US longitudinal analysisJeffery Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, MVR Hall, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:1543-55. 2003..These findings suggest that changes in social roles, such as entering or leaving marriage, influence physical characteristics such as body weight...
Gender, ethnicity, marital status, and body weight in the United StatesJeffery Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:2223-31. 2009....
Sample extensiveness in qualitative nutrition education researchJ Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
J Nutr Educ 33:184-92. 2001..Extensiveness represents the amount of information gathered in qualitative research. This study examined sample extensiveness in qualitative nutrition education research...
Appetite for integration: interdisciplinary careers for interdisciplinary areasJeffery Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 38:71-2; discussion 87-8. 2002
Constructing food choice decisionsJeffery Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Ann Behav Med 38:S37-46. 2009..Food choice decisions are frequent, multifaceted, situational, dynamic, and complex and lead to food behaviors where people acquire, prepare, serve, give away, store, eat, and clean up. Many disciplines and fields examine decision making...
Commensal eating patterns: a community studyJeffery Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 41:181-90. 2003..Peoples' social worlds appear to be focused on the nuclear family, and family members are also the people they usually eat with...
Managing values in personal food systemsM Connors
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Appetite 36:189-200. 2001..Understanding the personal food systems people use to help them make food choices can be useful for developing theories about eating behavior and communicating health messages related to food and eating...
Acculturation and health in Korean AmericansS K Lee
Nutrition and Food Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 10010, USA
Soc Sci Med 51:159-73. 2000..Future health research and practice can benefit by acknowledging the complexity of acculturation and its multidimensional effects on health...
Dating people with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: attitudes and beliefs of university studentsJ Sobal
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Women Health 27:73-88. 1998..Most students believed dating people with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa would not be a positive experience, and men stigmatized people with eating disorders differently than did women...
Managing healthy eating: definitions, classifications, and strategiesL W Falk
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Health Educ Behav 28:425-39. 2001..Exposing the implicit and multiplistic nature of healthy eating conceptions provides information useful to health educators promoting behavior changes...
Dating and eating. How university students select eating settingsDana Amiraian
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 52:226-9. 2009..These findings suggest that scripts may guide eating decisions and behaviors, particularly among women, and that eating scripts may become more flexible as relationships develop...
How adults construct evening meals. Scripts for food choiceChristine E Blake
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 51:654-62. 2008..Future investigations should examine these scripts with different participants, in different settings, and for different eating contexts...
Weight and weddings: women's weight ideals and weight management behaviors for their wedding dayLori A Neighbors
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 50:550-4. 2008..Prior to weddings, interventions promoting a healthy, sustainable lifestyle may be useful to discourage extreme weight loss behaviors and emphasize healthy long-term weight management...
Prevalence and magnitude of body weight and shape dissatisfaction among university studentsLori A Neighbors
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, 351A Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
Eat Behav 8:429-39. 2007..However, results may suggest a shift in body size ideals in an era of prevalent obesity, with overweight males and females expressing less BD and few normal weight individuals, particularly females, idealizing a very thin body...
Gender and marital status clarify associations between food insecurity and body weightKarla L Hanson
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Nutr 137:1460-5. 2007..These findings indicate that food insecurity relates differently to body weight for men and women, and that partnering plays a strong part in this relationship for women...
Eating routines. Embedded, value based, modifiable, and reflectiveMargaret M Jastran
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 52:127-36. 2009..These findings provide conceptual insights for food choice researchers and present a perspective from which practitioners who work with individuals seeking to adopt healthful eating practices might usefully approach their tasks...
Dimensions of everyday eating and drinking episodesCarole A Bisogni
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 48:218-31. 2007..Labels provided insights into the dimensions of the episodes. Results suggest approaches for researchers and practitioners who seek to understand how people manage everyday eating at a time when traditional meal patterns are changing...
Who we are and how we eat: a qualitative study of identities in food choiceCarole A Bisogni
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA cab
J Nutr Educ Behav 34:128-39. 2002..The study sought to develop a theoretical understanding of identities related to eating...
Sandwiching it in: spillover of work onto food choices and family roles in low- and moderate-income urban householdsCarol M Devine
Division of Nutritional Sciences, 377 Martha van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, 14853 4401, Ithaca, NY, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:617-30. 2003....
Dating and eating. Beliefs about dating foods among university studentsDana E Amiraian
Division of Nutritional Sciences, MVR Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 53:226-32. 2009..Dating food choices are important for current health and as potential precursors for long-term eating relationships like marriage...
Qualitative sample extensiveness in health education researchRachel M Safman
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Health Educ Behav 31:9-21. 2004..Document analysis extensiveness varied considerably on a variety of indicators. Future qualitative research would benefit from more complete consideration and fuller reporting of sample extensiveness...
Food choices among newly married couples: convergence, conflict, individualism, and projectsCaron F Bove
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, 315 MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 40:25-41. 2003..Overall, food choice negotiations involving both convergence and conflict were important components of marital adjustments that may have later health consequences...
Chocolate cravings in American and Spanish individuals: biological and cultural influencesJamie L Osman
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 47:290-301. 2006....
Dietary Westernisation: conceptualisation and measurement in MauritiusU Uusitalo
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Public Health Nutr 8:608-19. 2005..The aims of the study were to provide information that will contribute to conceptualising what is called "dietary Westernisation", and to provide an example of measuring it on an individual level...
Religion and body weightK H Kim
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithica, NY 14853, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:469-77. 2003..Relationships between religion and body weight were examined in a US national sample...
Classifying foods in contexts: how adults categorize foods for different eating settingsC E Blake
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Appetite 49:500-10. 2007..Attention to personal-experience and context-based category types may help improve understanding of relationships between knowledge and food choice behaviors...
Socio-economic, dietary, activity, nutrition and body weight transitions in South KoreaSoo Kyung Lee
Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 26 Nichol Avenue, Davison Hall, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 2882, USA
Public Health Nutr 6:665-74. 2003..This model of transitions was examined empirically using South Korea as an example of a nation that has undergone considerable changes...
Parity and body weight in the United States: differences by race and size of place of residenceSoo Kyung Lee
Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 2882, USA
Obes Res 13:1263-9. 2005....
Beliefs about whole-grain foods by food and nutrition professionals, health club members, and special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children participants/State fair attendeesLen Marquart
University of Minnesota, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 106:1856-60. 2006..Assessing beliefs about whole grains offers insights to nutrition professionals for encouraging healthful food consumption...
Religion, social support, fat intake and physical activityKaren Hye cheon Kim
Department of Health Education and Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 232B Rosenau Hall, CB 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7440, USA
Public Health Nutr 7:773-81. 2004..This study examined religion and social support in relationship to fat intake and physical activity...
