Carbohydrate nutrition and cataract

Seetharam Bhat Nutrition And Cataract

There are 27 to 35 million blind people in the world'. Cataract is the leading cause of visual disability and blindness all over the globe. There is a high incidence of cataract blindness in India. More than 50 per cent of the 9-12 million blind people in the country have surgically curable cataracF. Most cases of cataract are seen in subjects over 55 years of age. The disease is becoming more ...

Low-carbohydrate nutrition and metabolism.

The persistence of an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes suggests that new nutritional strategies are needed if the epidemic is to be overcome. A promising nutritional approach suggested by this thematic review is carbohydrate restriction. Recent studies show that, under conditions of carbohydrate restriction, fuel sources shift from glucose and fatty acids to fatty acids and ketones, and ...

Carbohydrate Nutrition and Team Sport Performance

The common pattern of play in 'team sports' is 'stop and go', i.e. where players perform repeated bouts of brief high-intensity exercise punctuated by lower intensity activity. Sprints are generally 2-4 s long and recovery between sprints is of variable length. Energy production during brief sprints is derived from the degradation of intra-muscular phosphocreatine and glycogen (anaerobic metabo...

Carbohydrate Nutrition and Sporulation of Allescheria Boydii.

Cazin, John, Jr. (University of Iowa, Iowa City), and David W. Decker. Carbohydrate nutrition and sporulation of Allescheria boydii. J. Bacteriol. 88:1624-1628. 1964.-The influence of various carbohydrates on the growth and sporulation of Allescheria boydii was studied by incorporating the test substance in a medium consisting of the inorganic salts mixture contained in Czapek Dox medium with 2...

Carbohydrate nutrition for lactating dairy cattle