Health and sustainability problems have become a central theme in dialogue in both the scientific community and the public. Our individual choices have a profound, advantageous or disadvantageous impact on our health; the same can be said about our environmental footprint. In this area, we can also make decisions that affect the physical environment positively or negatively. Our narrative review aims to demonstrate that healthy plant-based choices in our diet are linked to choices beneficial for our environment and that these two seemingly distant aspects converge in the context of plant-based diets. We have collected, compared and discussed the results of life cycle analysis (LCA) articles on the current state of the effect of food choice on our environment. Furthermore, we would like to show the opportunities and constraints of implementing plant-based diets.

Background: Physically active lifestyle can prolong the years spent without chronic diseases and is strongly associated with good mental and physical health. The goal of the study was to examine the physical activity patterns of the healthy adults and the effectiveness of a community-based e-health program.Methods: The study sample comprised of 633 participants. Analyses were based on the E-Harmony health program that was conducted in Hungary in 2014–2015. The longitudinal study measured the physical activity patterns of the healthy adult population, and a 12-month community-based internet and media program was evaluated for the target group to improve the physical activity level and related knowledge. We examined the effectiveness of the program by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire – Hungarian validated long version adjusting for socio-demographic parameters, also across multivariate linear regression analysis using SPSS 24.0 software. Confidence interval of 95% was used and the level of significance wasp < 0.05.Results: The total physical activity of the study sample was 5129.9 (SD = 4488.1) MET min/week. Male participants scored higher in total activity but the results showed no statistical significance. Our participants were sitting 2211.6 (SD = 1592.8) min /week on average (daily average was 315.9 (SD = 227.6) minutes); the results showed no statistically significant difference by gender. We found weak but significant relationship between the active lifestyle and anthropometric data, especially according to leisure time activities and sedentary behaviour (p < 0.001). Based on the multivariate linear regression models the socio-demographic parameters significantly affected the physical activity level of participants. After the 12-month community-based e-health program, 10.34% changes occurred in the total physical activity level (p < 0.001).Conclusions: To our knowledge, ours was the first community-based e-health program in Hungary to improve the physical activity level of the healthy adult population. Based on our results this web-based e-health program can be an adequate tool to promote healthy lifestyle. The study could provide appropriate information for the further health interventions and policy making. Further research is necessary to determine the special risk groups and to develop an applicable e-health program for such specific subgroups.

Psoriasis has been associated with increased frequency of hepatic diseases. Psoriasis severity, obesity, insulin resistance, aspartate aminotransferase level, platelet count, and alcohol use are significant predictors for advanced fibrosis in psoriasis patients. Although psoriasis patients also present body composition changes (e.g., higher overall body fat, visceral fat and sarcopenia), and these have recently been reported as risk factors for hepatic fibrosis, to date, body composition has not been prospectively investigated in psoriasis in the context of liver fibrosis. In this study anthropometric assessment (body weight and body mass index (BMI)), body composition analysis (body fat%, visceral fat scores and muscle mass%), and liver stiffness measurements (using transient elastography [TE]) were done in 52 psoriasis patients undergoing methotrexate therapy. Fourteen patients (26.9%) had advanced (F3–F4) liver fibrosis. There was no correlation between the patients’ liver stiffness values and the cumulative MTX doses. On the other hand, patients with higher BMI values, total body fat% and visceral fat scores were significantly more likely to present with higher hepatic stiffness values. BMI was a significant predictor of hepatic fibrosis in both genders. In males, body fat% (R = 0.578, p = 0.002) and, especially, visceral fat scores (R = 0.716, p < 0.001) had statistically significant correlation with stiffness scores, while in females only visceral fat scores were statistically significant predictors of the liver stiffness values (R = 0.452, p = 0.023), and body fat% was not (R = 0.187, p = 0.382). Our results suggest that anthropometric data should be assessed differently in female and male psoriasis patients when evaluating liver fibrosis risk.

"Az időben korlátozott energia- és tápanyagbevitellel járó étrendek élettani hatásai és szerepük egyes krónikus megbetegedésekben – Böjtök a 21. században" published on 01 May 2022 by Akadémiai Kiadó.

A szerzők bemutatják a dysphagia oktatási stratégia kialakításának lehetőségeit az ellátó teamben, különös tekintettel az egyénre adaptált dietoterápia megvalósítására.

A dementia morbiditási és mortalitási növekedése miatt hatalmas terhet ró a társadalomra gazdasági, szociális és egészségügyi téren egyaránt. A részben feltárható kórokok kezelése mellett a táplálkozásnak is nagy jelentősége lehet a dementia kockázatának csökkentésében. A kognitív hanyatlással kapcsolatban leggyakrabban vizsgált táplálkozási minta a mediterrán étrend, a magas vérnyomás megelőzésére alkalmazható DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) étrend, valamint az elmúlt évtizedben újdonságként megjelenő, a mediterrán és DASH étrend elemeit ötvöző MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) diéta, de a ketogén étrenddel és az időszakos böjttel kapcsolatban is számottevő kutatás született. Tanulmányunk összefoglalót kíván nyújtani mindazon étrendi tényezőkkel kapcsolatban, amelyek szerepet játszhatnak az agyi teljesítményromlás megelőzésében és kialakulásában.