Joanna Wyka

• Professor at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences

Introduction There are many educational and health programs implemented on a smaller or larger scale in Poland. Many of them address the problem of overweight and obesity in different age groups. Each such activity is considered valuable and important, since the problem of excessive body fat is growing and, in addition, poses a health risk due to t...

Background: Body weight or BMI do not provide any information about the content of muscle tissue, water content, body fat and its distribution in the body. Thyroid dysfunction is associated with a change in body weight, but also its composition regardless of physical activity. Objective: The aim of the study was to compare the body composition o...

Background: Caffeine is the most widespread psychoactive substance in the world. With long-term consumption of caffeinated beverages, there is a high probability of overtaking on caffeine. Objective: The aim of the study was to estimate the consumption of caffeine in the daily caffeine intake of Polish consumers, determine the caffeinated produc...

The consumption of plant-based food products instead of animal-based products tends to increase worldwide which can be caused by the global expansion of alternative food products. The article's objective is to investigate the perception of plant-based milk analogues by real and potential consumers and determine the prospects of increasing their ass...

Background: Slovenská Parenica is one of the most traditional and ever-popular sheep´s milk cheese specialities. This cheese has been registered as a geographical indication (PGI) in the EU. Parenica cheese is produced also from cow´s milk, but without the trade name "Slovenská/Slovak". Objective: The aim of our research was was statistical repo...

Background: A recently growing number of children and adolescents with overweight or obesity is indicative of the need for diagnosing their complications that may appear in the early childhood. For this reason, diagnostic criteria were developed for components of the metabolic syndrome (MS) also for these groups of the population. Objective: Thi...

The way of defining the concept of health varies depending on the age, sex, social position of a person conditioned by place of residence, economic and family situation. The aim of the study was to assess subjective and objective health status of women over 65 living in a small and big town. In the subjective assessment of the nutritional status we...

The following article has been withdrawn at the request of the authors and editor of the journal Current Medicinal Chemistry: Title: Association between Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer - A Short Overview. Authors: Katarzyna Szczechowiak, Anna Brzecka, Naomi Hachiya, Joanna Wyka and Jerzy Leszek* Bentham Science apologizes to the readers of the jo...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the reproducibility of the Dietary Habits and Nutrition Beliefs Questionnaire (KomPAN) in Polish adolescents and adults, including the assessment of indexes developed based on the questionnaire. In total, the study involved 954 subjects aged 15–65 (53.9% females). Interviews using the interviewer-administered qu...

Background. Bread is one of the world’s most consumed food commodity. However, in the last years consumption of bread and bakery products has declined, especially in the Western population. The reason for concern is the weight gain and presence of gluten in these products. Gluten is unacceptable in the diet only in patients with celiac disease who...

Background: Patient malnutrition is a significant problem in the process of rehabilitation and treatment. One of the tools that can reveal the risk of malnutrition is a series of standardized nutritional questionnaires. Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the nutritional status of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) by means...

Background. High-protein diets are often used as a quick and easy way to achieve weight loss in those who are overweight or obese. People using for a long time this type of diet are not aware that it can cause serious health problems, therefore it is very important to monitor the effects of long-term use of high-protein diets. Aim. The aim of this...

Background and objectives: Deriving and interpreting dietary patterns (DPs) is a common approach to assess the diet-disease relationship[1,2]. Estimation of the reproducibility of each newly developed questionnaire is necessary. The aim of the study was an assessment of the test-retest reproducibility of dietary patterns assessed with a food freque...

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an airway inflammatory disease caused by inhalation of toxic particles, mainly cigarette smoking, and now is accepted as a disease associated with systemic characteristics. Objective: The aim of this work was to investigate and compare selected biochemical parameters in patients with an...

The nutritional status of 166 girls and boys from four middle schools in Wroclaw was evaluated using anthropometric measurements, i.e. height and body mass, waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Anthropometric parameters such as BMI and WHtR were calculated. BMI above 85 pc occurred among 22.1% of girls and 19.5% of boys and w...

free access until February 06, 2017, through the link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1UEVXzlJdVkVt. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading causes of death, and lifestyle modification, including dietary changes, is recommended to improve this condition. In this study, regular consumption of bilberries was hypothesized to have beneficial e...

Background: Cigarette smoking is a major public health problem, which leads to the formation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is one of the main causes of avoidable death and disability worldwide. Objective: The aim of study was analysis and comparison of the visceral fat in the body of the three groups of subjects (non-smoker...

Down syndrome (DS) is one of the more commonly occurring genetic disorders, where mental retardation is combined with nutritional diseases. It is caused by having a third copy of chromosome 21, and there exist 3 forms; Simple Trisomy 21, Translocation Trisomy and Mosaic Trisomy. Symptoms include intellectual disability/mental retardation, early ons...

Background: Breast cancer is a disease with an increasing incidence, and it originates from several factors. Risk factors of this disease represent a diverse group of parameters, which also include hormonal influences. Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine if there is a relationship between hormonal contraceptives and hormone...

Background: Overweight and obesity are metabolic disorders affecting both adults and children. Effective treatment of these conditions is focused on decreasing the body mass, through individually tailored and well balanced diets, along with increasing physical activity. Obese persons often, however, choose high protein diets for losing weight. Rec...

Background: Youth nutrition and their nutritional status are conditioned by many factors, some of the main ones being: economic, social, climatic, cultural, and psychological factors as well as nutritional knowledge. With the growing problem of overweight and obesity among children and young people, the incidence of the metabolic syndrome is also...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the dietary exposure to acrylamide (AA) in a group of teenagers (n=261) from an urban environment. The intake of AA from food was estimated based on a 7-day food record diary (consecutive days). The food rations obtained (n = 1827) were used to calculate the amounts of the consumed food products, which were the...

Introduction and aim: In a human body iron occurs at a level of 3 to 5 g, 60-70 % of which are in hemoglobin, ca. 10% in myoglobin, and ca. 3% are accumulated in enzymes of cellular respiration or enzymes degrading toxic hydrogen peroxide. The other part of iron is accumulated in liver, spleen, kidneys and bone marrow. The dietary deficiency of ir...

Lifestyle defi nes patterns of group behaviour determined the mode of everyday life. Lifestyle factors, which have the greatest infl uence on state of health are: physical activity, proper nutrition, not smoking and not taking alcohol. The study involved a group of 103 Polish and 101 Slovak students from the third year of Food Technology of Wroclaw...

Nutritional patterns affect significantly man's body at each age. The elderly--with their eating habits and diseases they have overcome--often require specific dietary intervention. A proper and well-balanced diet is an important element of lifestyle that may become a factor facilitating the so-called healthy, successful ageing and delay the develo...

Carbohydrates consumed with the daily diet are the cause of fluctuations in the concentrations of glucose in the blood, known as the glycemic effect. Glucose content in blood after eating any meal, and usually reaches its maximum after 20-30 min after ingestion of food and then gradually decreases to 1-2 hours to return to fasting levels. Knowing t...

The proportion of elderly people in the global population is rapidly increasing. Their nutritional status indicates many deficiencies that are risky to health. The aim of this paper was to assess the nutrition and nutritional status in elderly individuals above 60 years old living in their family houses in rural areas. Dietary intake and nutritiona...

Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body's dietary needs. Nutritional patterns affect significantly man's body at each age. The elderly - with their eating habits and diseases they have overcome - often require specific dietary intervention. A proper and well-balanced diet is an important element of lifestyle that may bec...

The research was aimed at evaluating risk factors: level of physical activity, BMI, using of unhealthy substances, appearing of illness in the family, age and sex in according to increase frequency of the metabolic syndrome (MS) in teenagers from Wrocław. Height and the body weight were measured to assess BMI according to Cole's index in group of 4...

The aim of this study was to review the folate intake among adults in Poland published during last decade. The average dietary folate intake among adults (18-96 years old) was in range 110-352 microg/person/day. Among young non-pregnant women (18-35 years old) the folate intake was on the level 127-315 microg/person/day and 18-25% of them used supp...

Background An increasing number of people over 60 years of age living world-wide undertake appropriate actions in order to identify factors to optimize their health. Objective The study was aimed at evaluating nutritional patterns, biochemical parameters (TC, HDL, LDL, TG, glucose) and anthropometric parameters (BMI, waist circumference, arm circum...

Analyses were conducted for the effect of selected elements of lifestyle determining the attitude of adolescent boys to health, care over good physical condition and own appearance against self-consciousness and the real nutritional status of their bodies. OBJECTIVES, MATERIAL AND METHODS: Investigations were conducted at Collective School No. 1 in...

The contents of cadmium were detennined in plant products cultivated in the neighborhood of the Glogów (n=127) and Legnica (n=18) copperworks. The contents were recorded using the atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) method after dry mineralization, and cadmium was extracted to isopropylacetone. The results were compared with the acceptable levels...

An increasing number of people over 60 years of age living world-wide undertake appropriate actions in order to identify factors to optimize their health. The study was aimed at evaluating nutritional patterns, biochemical parameters (TC, HDL, LDL, TG, glucose) and anthropometric parameters (BMI, waist circumference, arm circumference, triceps skin...

The comparison of food patterns of people over 60 years old from a few cities of Western Poland was the aim of this study. In 1990 year, inhabitants of Wroclaw, Kalisz and Opole (women n=89 and men n=11) and in 2006 year from Wroclaw (women n=84 and men n=16) were examined. The studies were carried out with the use of triple 24-h dietary recall. Re...

Contents of arsenic were determined in plant products originating from the region of two copperworks, Głogów and Legnica. Analyses were carried out by means of atomic absorption spectrometry, using an MHS-10 unit for hydride generation (acetylene/argon), after wet mineralisation of samples. The maximum permissible level of arsenic was not exceeded...

The aim of the study was to asses food products intake in food ratio of women (n = 70) and men (n = 30) with BMI 27-40 from Wroclaw, which were patients of endocrynological section in Clinic Hospital in 2004. The 24 - hours recall and album of photographs of food products and dishes were used to estimate food products intake. Results of the study w...

Aim: The study was undertaken to evaluate nutritional knowledge and eating habits of women over 60 years of age from the big-city environment. Material and methods: Nutritional knowledge and eating habits of 234 senior women over 60 years of age from Wrocław were evaluated by means of a direct interview and based on a validated questionnaire elabor...

The mean folic acid content in the diets of 50 young women from Wroclaw was 282 mcg and complied in 70.5% of recommended intake in prophylactic of neural tube defects. Only 8% of women used peri-conceptional folate supplementation every day. In the examined group low knowledge about importance of folic acid in health was noticed. Educational interv...

In this paper food intake of 70 women and 30 men with BMI 27-40 was assessed by 24 hour nutritional recall. It was found that the majority of examined food ratios were characterized by high level of energy (extra 800-1200 kcal), fat and saturated fatty acid, protein, especially animal origin and cholesterol. The percent of energy from fat was impro...

The aim of the paper, in which the 24-hour recall was used, was to asses the food intake of selected nutrients in first year student of Agricultural University in Wroclaw. The recommended dietary allowances for energy and basic nutrients in group of woman were particularly low, in group of man-intake of saturated fatty acids, cholesterol and animal...

In this paper, the level of nutritional knowledge, lifestyle and food group intake was assessed in the first year students of Agricultural University in Wroclaw, by using nutritional questionnaire. Generally, the level of knowledge of principles of rational nutrition was particularly low. Inadequate low intake of cereal, milk, meat products, potato...