Diet and Physical Activity as Determinants of Lifestyle Chosen by Women from Southern Poland

Ostachowska-Gasior, Agnieszka; Kolarzyk, Emilia; Majewska, Renata; Gąsior, Anna; Kwiatkowski, Jacek; Zaleska, Izabela

doi:10.3390/ijerph15102088

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“…Referring to the results of our research to those obtained in other studies, low health quality of the diet and nutritional disorders have been noted among women of all ages, including senior women [20,21,26,44,[54][55][56].…”

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Satisfaction with Life and Nutritional Behaviour, Body Composition, and Functional Fitness of Women from the Kraków Population Participating in the “Healthy Active Senior” Programme

Gacek

Wójtowicz

Kosiba

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Pro-health behaviours are related to a person’s personal resources. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between satisfaction with life (SWL), nutritional behaviours, somatic indices, and functional efficiency of senior women. The research was conducted among 120 women aged 60–84 (Me = 65) participating in the “Healthy Active Senior” project at the University of Physical Education in Kraków. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and the proprietary validated questionnaire of nutritional behaviour were used. Body composition was assessed using the method of bioelectrical impedance (TANITA SC-330ST analyser), while physical fitness was evaluated via the Senior Fitness test (Fullerton Functional Fitness Test). Correlations between the variables were measured by implementing Spearman’s R signed-rank correlation coefficients (with p < 0.05). Positive correlations between SWL and selected nutrition behaviours have been demonstrated, including eating 5–6 meals (p < 0.001) and drinking at least 2 litres of fluids a day (p = 0.023), consuming cereal products daily, including whole-grains (p = 0.001), avoiding alcoholic beverages (p = 0.030), and applying vitamin D supplementation (p = 0.010). At the same time, negative correlations between SWL and limiting the consumption of red as well as processed meats (p = 0.002), animal fats (p = 0.046), and the preference for vegetable oils in one’s diet (p = 0.023) were shown. Significant correlations between satisfaction with life and two indicators of functional fitness were also confirmed: negative—with the variable ‘2.44-m Get-Up and Go’ (p = 0.003); and positive—with the ‘2-Minute Step in Place’ test (p = 0.034). The relationships between SWL and somatic indices did not reach the level of statistical significance. Among the women participating in the “Healthy Active Senior” programme, correlations between SWL and rational nutritional behaviours, as well as indices of functional fitness, were found (mostly positive), while the trends in these areas were not fully unambiguous, suggesting the validity of conducting further research.

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Satisfaction with Life and Nutritional Behaviour, Body Composition, and Functional Fitness of Women from the Kraków Population Participating in the “Healthy Active Senior” Programme

Gacek

Wójtowicz

Kosiba

et al. 2023

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“…These are mainly the following: cardiovascular diseases, diet-related cancers, e.g. colorectal cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, oesophageal cancer, breast cancer in women, prostate cancer in men, obesity, lipid metabolism disorders, and insulin-dependent diabetes (OECD/ European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2017;Ostachowska-Gasior et al, 2018;Szczepańska, Białek-Dratwa, Janota, and Kowalski, 2022).…”

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Can You Trust a Box Diet?

Orkusz¹,

Dobrzyńska²

2022

Engineering Sciences And Technologies

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In recent years the pace of human life has increased significantly. Sometimes, overworked people do not have time to prepare five meals a day by themselves, and use the services of catering companies offering ready-made meals that are delivered directly to the client’s place of work or residence in the form of a box.. This study aimed to evaluate the diet of individual customers based on the standard diet developed by one of the companies (the company was randomly chosen) engaged in dietary catering based in Lower Silesia. This evaluation was carried out based on menus prepared for ten days. For this purpose, the Diet 6D programme, developed by the Institute of Food and Nutrition in Warsaw, was used. The amounts of basic nutrients in the standard dietary menus adopted by the catering company did not comply with the recommendations for a rational diet. The advantage of the served meals was that the customers were offered a daily variety of meals rich in vegetables and fruit.

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Barriers of physical activity of women post breast cancer treatment in rural Poland

Malicka

Hanuszkiewicz

Woźniewski

2019

Health Care for Women International

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Diet and Physical Activity as Determinants of Lifestyle Chosen by Women from Southern Poland

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Satisfaction with Life and Nutritional Behaviour, Body Composition, and Functional Fitness of Women from the Kraków Population Participating in the “Healthy Active Senior” Programme

Satisfaction with Life and Nutritional Behaviour, Body Composition, and Functional Fitness of Women from the Kraków Population Participating in the “Healthy Active Senior” Programme

Can You Trust a Box Diet?

Barriers of physical activity of women post breast cancer treatment in rural Poland

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