Self-help by means of dietary interventions can help in management of various disorders including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a debilitating autoimmune disease. Dietary interventions necessitate a widespread appeal for both patients as well as clinicians due to factors including affordability, accessibility, and presence of scientific evidences that demonstrate substantial benefits in reducing d...

BACKGROUND The fat-regulating hormones, adiponectin, ghrelin, and leptin, have been studied extensively with the hope that some therapeutic modality might be gleaned from their augmentation or blockade. The authors studied levels of ghrelin, adiponectin, and leptin after liposuction in obese male Zucker rats. In addition, they altered the fat and carbohydrate content of the rats' postoperative ...

The review presents data on the use of carotenoids in most threatening pathological conditions. therapeutic and preventive effect is due to inactivation active oxygen species free radicals. By eliminating phenomena consequences oxidative stress, are effective both treating metabolic disorders diabetes mellitus abdominal obesity, reducing risk cardiovascular diseases. Diets enriched with have a ...

Phyto-oestrogens are believed to have a range of beneficial effects on predominant Western diseases. A few studies on phyto-oestrogens in milk exist and show that the composition can be affected by feeding. Therefore, the aim was to study how feeding of lucerne and grass/clover silages (GCSs) affects the concentration of phyto-oestrogens in bovine milk. Sixteen Danish Holstein cows were assigne...

This review examines whether there is evidence that a strict vegan diet confers health advantages beyond that of a vegetarian diet or overall healthy eating. Few studies include vegan subjects as a distinct experimental group, yet when vegan diets are directly compared to vegetarian and omnivorous diets, a pattern of protective health benefits emerges. The relatively recent inclusion of vegan d...

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that the quality of life and nutritional status of older adults residing in health care communities can be enhanced by individualization to less-restrictive diets. The American Dietetic Association advocates for registered dietitians to assess and evaluate the need for nutrition interventions tailored to each person's medical condition, ne...

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of two diets, differing primarily in protein content, on the nutritional rehabilitation of severely malnourished adults. The study took place in the Concern Worldwide Adult Therapeutic Feeding Centre in Baidoa, the town at the epicenter of the 1992 famine in Somalia. The response to treatment in 573 patients admitted to the center between Novembe...