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{"title":"Functional Foods: Bridging Health and Food","authors":"Dinçay AA","doi":"10.23880/fsnt-16000298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/fsnt-16000298","url":null,"abstract":"The primary task of a healthy diet is to meet metabolic needs and provide enough energy and nutrients for the body to work. However, consumers who have changed their production and consumption motifs in recent years. They have begun to take preventive measures against diseases as well as seek solutions to health problems with the aim of having a healthy and quality life. Functional food consumption also emerges as one of the measures taken by today’s more conscious consumers. Various food and food ingredients are known to have beneficial effects on our health, but they have begun to focus more on their biological regulatory roles through the macro- and micro-components they contain. We reviewed the factors that have driven the functional food development. Morever, lots of research is required to further understand the molecular benefits of food additives and ingredients that are used for food itself or for food enrichment. New strategies become imperative to improve the health and nutritional profile of functional foods and reducing the effects on the environment.","PeriodicalId":475649,"journal":{"name":"Food science & nutrition technology","volume":"344 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136266741","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":"The Effect of Behavior Change Communication via the Health Development Army on Pregnant Women’s Nutrition and Health Practices in Ambo District, Ethiopia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Community Trial","authors":"Gebremichael MA","doi":"10.23880/fsnt-16000291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23880/fsnt-16000291","url":null,"abstract":"Background: A woman’s nutrition and health at conception and during her pregnancy is crucial factors in defining both her own and her unborn child’s health and well-being at this crucial time in her life. Therefore, the objective of the study was to investigate the effect of Behavior Change and Communication (BCC) through the women development Army on optimal nutrition and health practices of pregnant women. Methods: From April 1, 2018 to October 30, 2019, a cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted in the Ambo district of Ethiopia. Three hundred eighty-five women in the 24 intervention clusters and 385 women in the 24 control clusters were recruited at the start of the study. In the intervention group, health development armies delivered the BCC’s main messages for three months, from July 2018 to September 2018, and end point data were collected from pregnant women (n = 744, 372 in the intervention group, and 372 in the control group) in October 2018. The control group received the standard care provided by the healthcare system during an ANC visit. The researchers used a binary generalized linear model analysis. A p value of <0.05 is used to indicate statistical significance. Statistical analyses were conducted on a per protocol basis. Result: The overall optimal nutrition and health practice were higher in the intervention group than in the control group (62.6% vs. 38.7%, P<0.001). The control group had a larger absolute risk of suboptimal nutrition and health practice (0.613 vs. 0.374, p<0.001) than the intervention group. Pregnant women in the intervention group had an absolute risk difference of 23.9% for suboptimal nutrition and health. Pregnant women who received intervention were 30.9% less likely to have suboptimal nutrition and health practice compared to pregnant women who were in the control group (ARR=0.691, 95% CI: 0.594-0.804). Conclusions: Behavior change communication (BCC) through the women’s development army is effective in improving optimal nutrition and health practices of pregnant women. Therefore, to improve the optimal nutrition and health practices of pregnant women, BCC through the health development army is recommended.","PeriodicalId":475649,"journal":{"name":"Food science & nutrition technology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135500959","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}