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Accessing Nutritious Food: The Realities of Lone Senior Women in Urban Nova Scotia

Green, Rebecca (2008-03)

This is the first qualitative study in Canada specifically focused on food insecurity ...
Achieving Healthy Body Weights in the Teenage Years: Evidence-based Practice Guidelines for Community Nutrition Interventions

Rudd, Brenna (2007-10)

Background: Adolescent obesity has become a significant public health problem. Conservative estimates, based on self-reported data, indicate overweight and obesity rates among Canadian adolescents aged 12 to 17 soared from ...
Assessing household and maternal salt intake to model salt as a potential fortification vehicle for thiamine in Cambodia

Chan, Kathleen (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-08)
The Assessment of Food Management Behaviours that Influence the Diet Quality of Mother-led Families in Nova Scotia

Currie, Kristin (2010-04-14)

We have shown in previous research that food management strategies adopted by lowincome families may account for the difference in diet quality within households that have similar economic and structural characteristics. ...
Body esteem, eating attitudes, and adherence in adolescents with cystic fibrosis from Atlantic Canada.

Faulkner, Colleen (2009-04-21)

A study was conducted to investigate the influence of body esteem, nutritional status, ...
Body esteem, eating attitudes, and adherence in adolescents with cystic fibrosis from Atlantic Canada.

Faulkner, Colleen (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-09)

A study was conducted to investigate the influence of body esteem, nutritional status, nutritional intake, and eating attitudes on adherence to dietary therapy and enzymes in adolescents and young adults with cystic fibrosis. ...
Breastfeeding Mothers’ Experiences with Infant Feeding: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

Goulden, Ami (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2017)

Introduction: Responsive feeding is a reciprocal relationship between infant and caregiver whereby the baby’s feelings of hunger and satiety are recognized and responded to effectively. Responsive feeding and breastfeeding ...
Breastfeeding support in Nova Scotia: Exploring the gap between policy, health professionals’ work practices and the everyday experience of mothers facing food insecurity.

Waddington, Madeleine (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2016-10-06)

Background: Breastfeeding is an important contributor to household and community food security. However, lower breastfeeding rates among low-income families represent a health inequity with negative impacts on infant, ...
Bringing the Public into Public Nutrition: How Engagement with Community-Based Participatory Action Research Has Informed Public Health Nutritionists’ Practice in Nova Scotia

Pabani, Nadia (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2018)

Background: Food insecurity is associated with increased risk of disease and poor health and well-being. Nova Scotian households have consistently experienced some of the highest rates of food insecurity in the Canada with ...
Buying Local at Grocery Stores in Nova Scotia: Implications for Food Security and Healthy Eating

Noseworthy, Beverly (2013-05-10)

Background: Food security and fruit and vegetable consumption are two priority action areas of Healthy Eating Nova Scotia. Through many collaborative efforts this strategic plan aims to increase the availability of ...
A Case Study Evaluation of a Local Fruit and Vegetable Snack Pilot: Recommendations for Future Program Planning

Abrey, Anne Marie (2009-04-15)

Purpose: Using a case study process evaluation of the Eating Well, Learning Well: Fruit and Vegetable Snack Pilot’s program planning, strengths of this collaborative effort as well as a vision for future collaboration on ...
A Case Study Evaluation of Department of Finance Employees that Participated in a Health Risk Assessment: Identification of Positive Lifestyle Changes

Wood, Megan (2012-04-19)

Employers may benefit from investing in employee wellness through reductions in employee health care costs, improved productivity of healthy workers, and fewer missed days (Baicker et al., 2010). The workplace may therefore ...
Celiac Disease: The challenges of affording a gluten-free diet

Neil, Lesley E. (Mount Saint Vincent UniversityMount Saint Vincent University, 2012-12)

Treatment of celiac disease is a strict gluten-free diet for life. The gluten-free diet is a complex, socially restrictive and significantly more expensive diet than a regular wheat-based diet. There are both social and ...
Childhood obesity in the family environment: Family rules and the diet quality of New Brunswick school children

Young, Margaret Hilary (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2005-04)
Consumer use and interpretation of trans fat information on food labels

Ellis, Sonya (2009-04-21)

Trans fat information has recently been added to Nutrition Facts panels and packages are ...
A Critical Assessment of the Development Process for a HACCP Implementation Manual for a Healthcare Foodservice Operation - The Dartmouth General Hospital

Corbett, Lesley Erin (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-10)

The use of a food safety program in a healthcare foodservice operation is instrumental in safeguarding the health and welfare of patients, their families and staff from foodbome illness. The Hazard Analysis Critical Control ...
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Food Marketing to North American Youth through Social Media

Terrio, Carrie (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2015-09)

Obesity rates among North American youth are a public health concern (Roberts, Shields, de Groh, Aziz & Gilbert, 2012; Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2012). Previous research findings show strong statistical evidence that ...
Cultivating Food Security in Nova Scotia Public Schools: A Case Study of an Elementary School Garden Project

Carlsson, Liesel (2011-01-19)

Background: Community food security (CFS) exists when all community residents obtain a safe, personally acceptable, nutritious diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes healthy choices, community ...
Determination of Chinese Canadians' Quality of Life with Nutrition-related Facets

Kwok, Stephanie; Mann, Linda; Wong, Kwan; Blum, Ilya (2017)

Purpose: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Quality of Life (QOL) as satisfaction with physical health, psychological, social relationships and environment domains. The objective was to use the WHOQOL questionnaire, ...
Development of Evaluation Tools for Dietitians of Canada’s Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) Service

Hemming, Janet Maureen (2009-04-16)

Background: Evidence-based practice (EBP) uses the best available research evidence, in combination with clinical expertise and client values, to guide practice decisions (1). ...

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