Browsing by Keywords "obesity"

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  • The role of aerobic exercise in the fighting of obesity.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Ntina, Maria; Saripanagiotou, Stella
    Thesis advisor: Pipili, Chrysoyla
    Publication Date: 28-02-2008

  • The role of legumes in health.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Galani, Angeliki
    Thesis advisor: Markaki, Anastasia; Papadaki, Angeliki
    Publication Date: 04-08-2014
    Purpose of this study is to present a detailed report about the role that legumes have in certain chronic diseases (cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, cancer), as well as to enquire which are of the ...

  • School bullying in childhood obesity.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Adamidis, Nikolaos; Koukakis, Michail
    Thesis advisor: Charonitaki, Aikaterini
    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Obesity and overweight are caused by either eating high energy and fat foods or lack of physical activity. Childhood ...

  • Infant eating habits and the factors that affect them: Study at Sitia's daycare center.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Kalogeraki, Eirini; Simaiaki, Emmanouela
    Thesis advisor: Sfakianaki, Eirini; Thalassinos, Nikolaos
    Publication Date: 2019-10-03
    The purpose of the research is to collect information about the children's eating habits in Sitia's childcare facility. The factors influencing their dietary choices will also be studied and their development indicators ...

  • The complications of obesity during pregnancy in the 8th and 9th months.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Health and Welfare Services (SEYP), Nursing Department
    Authors: Kornaraki, Chrisoula; Menegaki, Katerina
    Thesis advisor: Tsoumani, Natalia
    Publication Date: 05-10-2010

  • Hormone effects in appetit with emphasis in ghrelin.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Skarlea, Dimitra; Chrisou, Maria
    Thesis advisor: Galanis, Christos
    Publication Date: 18-02-2015
    The aim of the present study was the review of the available bibliographical data , in point of hormone effects in appetite , with emphasis in ghrelin. In humans , the mechanism of appetite is a strictly adjustable function ...

  • Risk factors and cardiovascular disease.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Health and Welfare Services (SEYP), Nursing Department
    Authors: Giannopoulou, Angeliki; Spanou, Zoi; Tzernia, Maria
    Thesis advisor: Tsoumani, Natalia
    Publication Date: 10-06-2009
    Objective of present study is the investigation of relation between cardiovascular diseases, indicators of obesity, diet, diabetes mellitius and cholisteraemia. The cardiovascular deseases constitute the main cause of ...

  • Obesity and conicity index.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Anastasaki, Stamatina; Karousou, Aikaterini-Kleopatra
    Thesis advisor: Papadaki, Aggeliki
    Publication Date: 26-06-2012
    Obesity is one of the most common diseases in developed and developing countries, where as malnutrition is considered the main nutritional problem and the percentage of overweight and obese people increases at an alarming ...

  • Obesity and heredity.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Zazati, Paraskevi; Mpitsani, Evangelia; Paraskeyopoulou, Ourania
    Thesis advisor: Kyfonidis, N.
    Publication Date: 17-10-2008
    It is anymore in general acceptable that the obesity constitutes important medicalsocial problem with dimensions of epidemic worldwide, influencing simultaneously developed, but paradoxically in the past few year and the ...

  • Prevention of cardiovascular risk in childhood.

    Η.Μ.U, School of Health Sciences (SHS), Nursing Dept.
    Authors: Eikosipentaki, Maria; Kourti, Christiana; Rizopoulou, Christina
    Thesis advisor: Zografakis-Sfakianakis, Michail
    Publication Date: 2021-07-22
    Cardiovascular disease is a major health problem and it is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Cardiovascular prevention from childhood is an active role in the healthy developing and later ...

  • Breakfast and body mass index.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Dialektakou, Kyranni
    Thesis advisor: Sfakianaki, Eirini
    Publication Date: 05-05-2008
    Many studies have found an association between breakfast skipping and either body mass index (BMI) or overweight/obesity among adolescents, but several studies have found no association. This study investigated the hypothesis ...

  • Protein diets and their health effects. How does their application relate to the treatment of obesity compared to the Cretan Mediterranean diet.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Kanaki, Aikaterini; Krommyda, Eleftheria
    Thesis advisor: Sfakianaki, Eirini
    Publication Date: 2018-02-22
    This work refers to protein diets and their health effects as well as it analyzes the correlation of their application to the treatment of obesity compared with the Cretan Mediterranean diet. First of all there is a reference ...

  • Comparison of nutrient intake between a Greek and a Scottish sample of 11-year-old children.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Karagiannidou, Anastasia; Laina, Efstathia
    Thesis advisor: Chatzi, Vasiliki
    Publication Date: 01-07-2013
    Introduction: Nutrition plays a very important role in physicaland mental development of children. Unhealthy dietary habits are related to family, environment as well as on predisposition, leading consequently to obesity, ...

  • Prader-Willi Syndrome: Correlation between nutrition and syndrome.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Vei, Vasiliki
    Thesis advisor: Fragkiadakis, Georgios
    Publication Date: 2017-02-20
    The current graduate research studies the Prader-Willi Syndrome, one of the most common pathological cases of clinical genetics worldwide. The syndrome is particularly interesting, since it is the main cause behind morbid ...

  • Nutritional supplements: uses, positive and negative effects on the human body.

    Η.Μ.U, School of Health Sciences (SHS), Nutrition and Dietetics Sciences Dept.
    Authors: Vigla, Marianna; Zervaki, Kyriaki; Liaskou, Ioanna Eleftheria
    Thesis advisor: Tsagkarakis, Konstantinos
    Publication Date: 2021-11-10
    The concept of adequate nutrition has been replaced in recent years by that of optimal nutrition, where through the optimization of normal functions health is promoted, minimizing the risk of developing degenerative diseases. ...

  • Correlation in nutritional knowledge and compliance in the mediterranean dietary standard to health professionals and healthy population.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Health and Welfare Services (SEYP), Nursing Department
    Authors: Vardaki, Ioanna-Aikaterini; Volyraki, Anatsasia; Ntalakou, Ioanna
    Thesis advisor: Kartsonaki, Maria
    Publication Date: 2017-06-29
    INTRODUCTION: The Mediterranean diet is a modern eating habits originally inspired by dietary habits from Greece, southern Italy, France and Spain in the 1940s and 1950s. The main features of this diet include a proportionally ...

  • The association between nutrition and the polymorphisms of the FTO gene in the manifestation of obesity.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Krontiri, Varvara
    Thesis advisor: Moutsaki, Paraskevi
    Publication Date: 2017-07-18
    Obesity is considered a chronic and multifactorial disease that is becoming a major global public health problem and is defined as the excessive accumulation of body fat. One of the most important ways in which the disease ...

  • Correlation of obesity between syndrome of obstructive sleep apnea ypopnea in adults.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Vardaka, Kalliopi
    Thesis advisor: Maraki, Maria
    Publication Date: 06-05-2008
    In the past few year the obesity constitutes one from the more important alimentary problems of developed world. A lot of factors it appears that they contribute in the increase of frequency with which it is presented. ...

  • The connectionof the type of breakfast consumed by the rural population od south Crete (prefecture of Herklion) to obesity.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition (STeGTET), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Authors: Vatsina, Magdalini; Zorzou, Aspasia-Argyri
    Thesis advisor: Sfakianaki, Eirini
    Publication Date: 28-02-2008
    Breakfast is the first meal we offer to our organism at the beginning of its productive day. Due to the fact that enough time elapses since our last meal, the diet supplying in the morning is essential, since the level of ...

  • Correlation between obesity’s characteristics with personality.

    Η.Μ.U, School of Health Sciences (SHS), Nutrition and Dietetics Sciences Dept.
    Authors: Kartsonaki, Eftychia; Moutafi, Petroula
    Thesis advisor: Charonitaki, Aikaterini
    Publication Date: 2021-03-16
    The present fully completed study consists of two main subject units. In the first unit we refer to the theories of Personality of Eysenck, Sheldon and Adler, as well as to the Characteristics of Personality. In the ...