Browsing by Subject "ruokavalio"
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(2019)Aims. The purpose of this study was to get a small picture of elderly people who use social media to search information about food and nutrition. Framing of the research question was shaped from the desire to investigate present-day elderly as users of social media. The purpose was to get a picture of how elderly experiences social media as a source of food and nutritional information. The previous studies have shown that social media can have an impact on the food choices that people make. Methods. This is a qualitative study. The sample of this study consisted of five discretionary selected elderly that live in the capital region. Besides the same age range all members of the research group had learned to use social media after they had retired on a pension. Individual interviews were the data collection method of this study. The interviews were recorded and transcribed. In this study data-driven content analysis was used as a method of analysis. Results and conclusions. The research showed that social media can offer peer support and motivation considering food and nutritional information. The elderly takes advantage of social media in their everyday life when they are searching information about food and nutrition.
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(2018)The aim of the study was to find out what persons with low-incomes eat and how healthy their diet is. Anu Raijas wrote an article to a social policy journal, in which she wondered if all can afford to eat healthy and responsibly. Previous studies have shown that economic factors influence the choice of diet. Following to a healthy diet is more common among highly educated people, but other socio-economic groups are increasingly paying attention to the wholesomeness of food. In addition to the meager dietary content, I was interested in how they get the food in their homes and whether the amount was adequate. My study was carried out through analysing narratives. The data was collected in 2006 by Isola, Larivaara and Mikkonen as a writing competition "Everyday Experience in Poverty". My data was analysed through qualitative content analysis and a descriptive quantitative analysis. My research showed that diet for the poor can be insufficient, one-sided and at times there is shortage. Sometimes, the low-income people had no choice but to receive food aid, steal or to collect waste food from the dumpster. In addition, some of the respondents diversified their diets by picking berries and mushrooms, fishing or growing some of their vegetables themselves. Based on the data, the diet of low-income people did not look very healthy.
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(2018)Although there are many effective ways to treat major depressive disorder, its prevalence is not decreasing. Active research is needed to find more ways to treat and prevent depressive episodes. Observational studies have shown that unhealthy diet is associated with increased risk of depression. The aim of this review is to examine current evidence concerning dietary intervention as a treatment for depression. Furthermore, the effect of dietary intervention to depressive symptoms among people without clinical depression is examined. For time being, three randomized controlled trials of dietary treatment for depression have been made in Australia. In two of these studies diet intervention group had significantly greater decrease in depressive symptoms compared to control group. One study did not find difference between intervention and control groups. In this study, however, both of the groups improved their diet during the intervention period which can distract the interpretation of the result. In studies among people with non-clinical depressive symptoms dietary improvements had positive outcomes in two intervention studies. Lack of control group distracts the interpretation of results in these studies. Finnish intervention study did not find decrease in depressive symptoms after dietary intervention, but in this study the symptoms were quite mild in the beginning. Depressive symptoms have also been used as a secondary outcome in studies concerning dietary treatment of lifestyle diseases. Meta-analysis of these studies shows that about half of the studies found decreasing in depressive symptoms after intervention period. So far there is not much research done about the effectiveness of dietary intervention as a treatment for depression. However, the current evidence seems promising and no negative effects have been found. More research is needed to ensure if dietary intervention could be an effective treatment for depression either as a separate intervention or together with other treatment.
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