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Food and mood: A nutritional and mood assessment of a 30-day vegan space diet

Olabi, Ammar A.; Levitsky, David A.; Hunter, Jean B.; Spies, Rupert; Rovers, Adriana P.; Abdouni, Lina (Elsevier Ltd, 2015)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of eating a total vegan space diet, ad libitum, on nutrient intake, weight and mood in a group of 16 non-vegetarians. The 10-day diet was repeated three times within the ...
Food and nutrient intake of school-aged children in Lebanon and their adherence to dietary guidelines and recommendations

Nasreddine, Lara M.; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Chokor, Fatima Al Zahraa; Naja, Farah A.; O’Neill, Lynda M.; Jomaa, Lamis H. (BioMed Central Ltd, 2022)

Background: Lebanon, an Eastern Mediterranean country, is witnessing a remarkable nutrition transition, and the diets of school-aged children may be amongst those most affected. However, limited studies have examined the ...
Food consumption patterns and nutrient intakes of children and adolescents in the eastern mediterranean region: A call for policy action

Al-Jawadleh, Ayoub; Taktouk, Mandy; Nasreddine, Lara M. (MDPI AG, 2020)

The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) has witnessed significant social and economic changes that may have influenced the diet of children and adolescents, and increased the risk for obesity and malnutrition in this age ...
Food consumption patterns and nutrient intakes of infants and young children amidst the nutrition transition: the case of Lebanon

Jomaa, Lamis H.; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Chokor, Fatima Al Zahraa; Naja, Farah A.; O’Neill, Lynda M.; Nasreddine, Lara M. (BioMed Central Ltd, 2022)

Background: This is the first study on dietary intakes of infants and young children in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, a region that is currently witnessing the nutrition transition. It aims at characterizing food ...
Food insecurity among Iraqi refugees living in Lebanon, 10 years after the invasion of Iraq: Data from a household survey

Ghattas, Hala; Sassine, Annie Belle J.; Seyfert, Karin; Nord, Mark; Sahyoun, Nadine R. (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Iraqi refugees in Lebanon are vulnerable to food insecurity because of their limited rights and fragile livelihoods. The objective of the present study was to assess household food insecurity among Iraqi refugees living ...
Food insecurity and mental health of college students in Lebanon: A cross-sectional study

Itani, Rita; Mattar, Lama E.; Kharroubi, Samer A.; Bosqui, Tania Josiane; Diab El-Harakeh, Marwa H.; Jomaa, Lamis H. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of food insecurity (FI) among college students and explore its association with indicators of mental and psychosocial health. Data were collected using a cross-sectional ...
Food insecurity is associated with compromised dietary intake and quality among Lebanese mothers: Findings from a national cross-sectional study

Jomaa, Lamis H.; Naja, Farah A.; Kharroubi, Samer A.; Diab El-Harakeh, Marwa H.; Hwalla, Nahla C. (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Objective: Examine the associations between household food insecurity (HFI) with sociodemographic, anthropometric and dietary intakes of mothers.Design: Cross-sectional survey (2014-2015). In addition to a sociodemographic ...
Food insecurity is associated with lower adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern among Lebanese adolescents: a cross-sectional national study

Naja, Farah A.; Itani, Leila; Kharroubi, Samer A.; Diab El-Harakeh, Marwa H.; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Jomaa, Lamis H. (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020)

Purpose: To derive dietary patterns (DPs) of Lebanese adolescents (10–18 years) and evaluate associations between identified DPs and household food insecurity (HFI). Methods: Data on adolescents (n = 693) were drawn from ...
Food insecurity is associated with suboptimal sleep quality, but not sleep duration, among low-income Head Start children of pre-school age

Na, Muzi; Eagleton, Sally G.; Jomaa, Lamis H.; Lawton, Kristen; Savage, Jennifer S. (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Objective: To examine the association between food insecurity and child sleep outcomes and to investigate whether parent psychosocial factors mediate such associations.Design: Cross-sectional study. Usual wake time and ...
Food insecurity pre-and post the covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis in lebanon: Prevalence and projections

Kharroubi, Samer A.; Naja, Farah A.; Diab El-Harakeh, Marwa H.; Jomaa, Lamis H. (MDPI, 2021)

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had serious repercussions on the global econ-omy, work force, and food systems. In Lebanon, the pandemic overlapped with an economic crisis, which threatened to exacerbate food ...
Food insecurity, low dietary diversity and poor mental health among Syrian refugee mothers living in vulnerable areas of Greater Beirut, Lebanon

Abou-Rizk, Joana; Jeremias, Theresa; Cocuz, Georgiana; Nasreddine, Lara M.; Jomaa, Lamis H.; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Frank, Jan; Scherbaum, Veronika (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Syrian refugees in Lebanon are facing vulnerabilities that are affecting their food insecurity (FI) levels. The objectives of this study were to measure dietary diversity, FI and mental health status of Syrian refugee ...
Food loss and food waste recovery as animal feed: a systematic review

Rajeh, Caroline; Saoud, Imad Patrick; Kharroubi, Samer A.; Nalbandian, Salpy; Abiad, Mohamad G. (Springer Japan, 2021)

While society struggles to meet increasing food demand and mitigate food security challenges, approximately one-third of the food produced globally is lost or wasted every year. Using food wastes as animal feed offers a ...
Food loss and food waste research in the Arab world: a systematic review

Abiad, Mohamad G.; Meho, Lokman I. (Springer Netherlands, 2018)

Food loss and food waste are recognized as two of the most challenging dilemmas facing the world today with serious repercussions on food security, the environment, and global as well as regional and national economies. ...
Food retail expansion patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa: Institutional and regional perspectives

Bahn, Rachel A.; Abebe, Gumataw Kifle (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2020)

Food retail transformation in developing countries continues to receive attention due to its implications for business expansion and food system development. We assess the dynamism of supermarketization in two relatively ...
Food Riots and Protest: Agrarian Modernizations and Structural Crises

Bush, Raymond C.; Martiniello, Giuliano (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)

Food riots in the developing world have (re)gained momentum coinciding with converging financial, food, and global energy crises of 2007–08. High staple food prices across the world, and increasingly un-regulated food ...
Food security under compound shocks: Can Lebanon produce its own Mediterranean food basket?

Daher, Bassel T.; Bachour, Roula; Yanni, Sandra F.; Koo-Oshima, Sasha; Mohtar, Rabi H. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022)

As Lebanon faces compound challenges, a looming food security crisis is rapidly approaching, much of which could be attributed to the lack of long-term planning for sustainability in its agricultural sector. The disconnect ...
Food Sources of Fiber and Micronutrients of Concern in Infants and Children in the United Arab Emirates: Findings from the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) and the Kids Nutrition and Health Survey (KNHS) 2020

Kassis, Amira N.; Chokor, Fatima Al Zahraa; Nasreddine, Lara M.; Hwalla, Nahla C.; O’Neill, Lynda M. (MDPI, 2022)

We estimated the usual intakes of fiber, iron, zinc, calcium, folate, vitamin D, and vitamin A and the top foods that contribute to them among children in the UAE. Dietary intake was assessed using 24 h recalls among 5 age ...
Fructose intake and its association with relative telomere length: an exploratory study among healthy Lebanese adults

Messerlian, Nairie; Khoueiry-Zgheib, Nathalie; Chokor, Fatima Al Zahraa; Nasrallah, Mona P.; Tamim, Hani Mohammed; Nasreddine, Lara M. (Frontiers Media SA, 2023)

Introduction: Shorter relative telomere length (RTL) has been associated with increased incidence of morbidity. Although still disputed, available evidence suggests that dietary factors, including sugar-sweetened beverages ...
Fructose threshold for inducing organ damage in a rat model of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Fakhoury-Sayegh, Nicole; Trak-Smayra, Viviane E.; Sayegh, Raymond B.; Haidar, Faten; Obeid, Omar Ahmad; Asmar, Sabine; Khazzaka, Aline (Elsevier Inc., 2019)

A fructose-enriched diet has been shown to be associated with an increase in fatty infiltration of liver, kidney, and pancreas. Our objective was to determine the concentration threshold at which a fructose-enriched diet ...
Functional characterization of a gibberellin F-box protein, PslSLY1, during plum fruit development

El-Sharkawy, Islam; Ismail, Ahmed A.; Darwish, Ahmed G.; El Kayal, Walid E.; Subramanian, Jayasankar; Sherif, Sherif M. (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Fruit development is orchestrated by a complex network of interactions between hormone signaling pathways. The phytohormone gibberellin (GA) is known to regulate a diverse range of developmental processes; however, the ...

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