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{"title":"Fast Food Consumption and Its Relation with Attention Span and Memory Retention in School Children","authors":"Mankiran Kaur","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2019/13.1.566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2019/13.1.566","url":null,"abstract":"To study the relationship of fast food consumption with attention span and memory retention, a total of 240 school children aged 13-15 years with frequent consumption of fast food were selected from three private and three government schools of Ludhiana city. The data on general information and demographic profile of the respondents and frequency of fast food consumption was collected. The subjects were asked to fill the questionnaire containing these details. D2 attention span test and memory retention test were conducted among the selected subjects in order to assess their cognitive development. The results revealed that there was frequent consumption of fast food among the school children, wherein comparison to the private school children, consumption of fast foods by government school children was slightly higher. Frequently consumed fast foods among both private and government school children were chips, biscuits, bread, cookies, golgappe (potato filled fried salty snack) and samosa (potato stuffed fried salty snack). A significant negative correlation was observed between the consumption of fast food and attention span and memory retention; while a significant positive correlation was observed between attention span and memory retention. Hence, it was concluded that private school children were having better attention span (p<0.05) and memory retention scores than government school children.","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48284315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obesity Status of Children from 4 to 7 Years of Age in the Commune of Arica: A Comparative Study according to Gender","authors":"L. B. Mateu","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/13.1.578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/13.1.578","url":null,"abstract":"Obesity remains to be a global health problem. Chile has been affected by the high prevalence of obesity in the infant population. Obesity is shown interchangeably at early ages, being necessary to investigate this behavior in age groups of 4 to 7 years. To this end, a general objective has been set: to evaluate the nutritional status, from the anthropometric point of view, of children from 4 to 7 years of age in the district of Arica, carrying out a non-experimental, quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive-comparative study. As a result, it was found that there weren’t statistically significant differences in the prevalence of obesity and overweight among girls and boys, although girls showed values of body mass index and percentage of fat mass discretely higher than boys and, the obesity increase was directly proportional to age. *Address for correspondence: Luis Antonio Barrio Mateu Ofragia 65, Las Palmas II, Arica, Chile Phone: +56951966235, E-mail: lbm170161@gmail.com INTRODUCTION Obesity continues to be a topic of scientific interest, especially because despite all the actions taken by different governments and countries, high levels of obesity continue to be recorded worldwide, both in adults and infants. The World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) highlights that the number of infants and young children (from 0 to 5 years) suffering from overweight or obesity increased from 32 million in 1990 to 41 million in 2016. Only in the African Region, the number of overweight or obese children increased from 4 to 9 million in the same period. In developing countries with emerging economies, the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in pre-school children exceeds thirty percent. In Chile, childhood obesity has also increased, which was reflected in the results of the System of Measurement of the Quality of Education (SIMCE) 2016. In the area of Physical Education, 9568 eighth grade primary education children in 309 establishments were evaluated, revealing a worrying physical state of Chilean schoolchildren. According to these results, forty-five percent of the students were overweight or obese, which implies an increase of four percentage points, compared to previous studies released by this same entity. The prevalence of obesity has been shown indiscriminately regarding sex. In a study conducted in the United States by Wang (2011), it is estimated that between 1988-1994 and 2007-2008, men had a faster increase in the prevalence of","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42796930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Families’ Views Regarding Down syndrome: On Different Perspective","authors":"P. Verma","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49026278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Load Shedding and Community Health Centres in South Africa: A Conceptual Scholarship","authors":"E. Ndaguba","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.556","url":null,"abstract":"Electricity supply in health centres is very imperative; a cut in electricity could lead to the degeneration of a patient’s health or result in the death of a patient or may compromise surgical procedures. The essence therefore of this study is to examine the effect of load shedding on community health centres in South Africa. A desktop method was used in gathering information, while it was analysed using a combination of content analysis, narrative analysis and themes analysis. It emphasizes that load shedding has caused a lot of damages ranging from the loss of 150 lives in hospital, to poor sanitation, and to interrupted water supply. In conclusion, the prevailing circumstance of load shedding have crippled the health sector and has resulted in pandemonium in the public health sector leading to social, economic and infrastructural quagmires and negative growth to South Africa.","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41638384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phytochemicals with Health Benefits – Contribution from Brown and White Finger Millet (Eleusine Coracana) Varieties","authors":"U. Antony","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.513","url":null,"abstract":"Bearing in mind that millet market is currently growing, comparison of phytochemicals in two finger millet varieties with different seed coat colours (brown and white) has been carried out. The phytochemicals content was higher in the brown variety when compared to the white variety. Gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GCMS) analysis revealed the presence of propanamide, 2-butenedioic acid (E)-, diethyl ester, 2-amino-1-(o-hydroxyphenyl) propane, oleic acid, propan-1-one, 2-amino-1-piperidin-1-yl-, hexanedioic acid, bis (2-ethylhexyl) ester, guanidine, N,N,N’,N’-tetramethyl-, limonene, phthalic acid, 2-cyclohexylethyl butyl ester, actinobolin, n-hexadecanoic acid, 9,12-octadecadienoic acid (Z,Z)-, cyanoacetyl urea, tetracosane, fluoxetine and arginine in the finger millet grains. Phytochemicals are known to have antioxidant activity, and analysis by DPPH assay showed 85.77 percent in the brown variety and 62.18 percent in the white variety. Further studies are needed to isolate active compounds of the extract and correlate structural function relationships in order to propose their exact mechanism of action in various disorders. *Address for correspondence: Dr. Usha Antony Centre for Food Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai 600 025, Tamilnadu, India Phone: +914422358379, Fax: +914422350299, E-mail: twinkle19872001@yahoo.co.in INTRODUCTION Since earlier times, natural products have been used for maintaining health, with more intensive studies for natural therapies especially in the last decade. Traditional medicine is used by almost eighty percent of the population (Eloff 1998). Currently, there is an increased interest among consumers regarding the role of food in maintaining and improving human well-being. Foods are also known to contain bioactive components with therapeutic effects. Plants extracts are sources of antihypertensive, hypoglycaemic, hypolipidaemic, anti-inflammatory and antibiotic compounds. Therefore, such foods need be investigated to better understand their properties and efficiency. Millets are important components of a healthy diet, and their daily consumption could prevent cardiovascular diseases and certain cancers (Bhupathiraju and Tucker 2011). These beneficial effects of millets have been attributed to non-essential food constituents, known as phytochemicals or bioactive compounds, which have a relevant bioactivity when they are frequently consumed as a part of a regular diet (Mudgal et al. 2010). Millets are ranked sixth in the world for cereal production, and they are the major food source for people living with economically disadvantaged status in Africa and Asia (Kumari et","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48245013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ultrasound Study in Patients with Degenerative Chondropathy, Previous and Post-Treatment With Stem Cell Implantation","authors":"Dayneri León Valladares","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44213216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medicinal Plants used During Traditional Postnatal Care Practices in Rajasthan, India","authors":"A. Dudi","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.568","url":null,"abstract":"Pali district of Rajasthan has powerful traditional practices in which plants play a key role. The present study endeavour to investigate and document the various medicinal plants used as traditional method of postnatal care of mother and children. A total of 120 rural women from randomly selected villages within the age group of 27 to 45 years were interviewed. The investigation revealed that 27 species of ethno medicinal plants were recorded belonging to 20 families used by the rural people of Pali district, Rajasthan for postnatal care practices. These medicinal plants were used as nutritious and medicinal preparations for postnatal care in the form of powder, decoction, laddu or haluwa etc. The mixture of different plant parts were also used for preparations. Most of the rural women (70 to 95%) used ethno medicinal preparation that is, dried ginger (Zingiber officinale) mixture, carom seed (Trachyspermum ammi), laddu, haluwa, edible gum (Allium sativum) laddu, harrira, fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) seed laddu just after delivery. Some of the popular formulations of carom, turmeric (Curcuma longa), nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), cloves (Syzygium aromaticum), garlic (Allium sativum) and asafoetida (Ferula assafoetida) were used by ninety percent rural women to give comfort to the baby from digestive disorders and cold and cough. These practices if unified with modern healthcare system could promote the health status of thousands of women and their neonate Ethno Med, 12(4): 212-220 (2018) DOI: 10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.568 © Kamla-Raj 2018","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45522301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviour and Beliefs of Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Undergraduate Students Regarding HIV and AIDS","authors":"I. Govender","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.573","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45127168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Single Group Before after Herbs Intervention Effect on the Blood Glucose Levels among Diabetic Patients”","authors":"S. S. Ghotra","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44031822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Efficient Information Packaging could Enhancing Ethnomedicine as Alternative Means to Improve Africa: Implication for Public Healthcare System","authors":"Patrick Ajibade","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2018/12.04.524","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46847879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}