conclusions: the presented food-based strategies in this study introduce a precise management for depression benefiting from iranian traditional medicine resources. background: considering the increasing prevalence of depression in contemporary societies, general tendency for safer treatments with fewer side effects has recently been a subject of interest. objectives: food-based strategies, whi...

Tne aiuhors propose a conceptual model of the use of nutrition labels and on-pac.kage claims. Knowledge, perceived diet effectiveness, health status, and skepticism toward claims are all hypothesized to be significant in explaining the tise of package claims and nutrition labels. Results from a preliminary investigation of the relationships among these constructs sho-v that a person's perceptio...

This paper explores the origins of the Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Programme (DNCP) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and its fate under its first director, Gio Batta Gori. The DNCP is used to explore the emergence of federal support for research on diet, nutrition and cancer following the 1971 Cancer Act, the complex relations between cancer prevention and therapeutics in the NCI during th...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. There is growing evidence for a chemopreventive role of nutrition in the development of HCC in at risk populations. Bibliographical searches were performed in PubMed for the terms 'nutrition and hepatocellular carcinoma', 'nutrition and liver cancer', 'nutrition and hepatic cancer', 'diet and hepatocellular...

The symposium on Diet, Nutrition and Immunity held in Singapore on April, 2008, reviewed the current scientific information on the development of the immune system particularly in infancy and the role of diet, exercise and aging on immunocompetence, together with the molecular processes involved. The importance of specific nutrients particularly zinc and iron, vitamins D and E and long-chain po...

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a common medical complication of pregnancy, is defined as “any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. Risk factors for GDM: a previous GDM or prediabetes, a family history revealing a first degree relative with type 2 diabetes, maternal age(>35 y), ethnic background, being overweight, a previous pregnancy ...

Upon close examination by nutritional professionals, concern has arisen regarding the typical contents of a young adult diet. In terms rate at which adults choose to consume nutritionally-dense food items, nutrition-deficient junk items are chosen over former is significantly higher. Among further examinations this issue researchers, it become evident that decisions made increasingly associated...