objective: a significant increase in violence in the world and its impact on public health and ‎society can be an important reason to offer solutions to reduce or control anger. studies ‎have shown that specific food groups may be effective in controlling mental disorders ‎such as depression, anxiety and anger. the purpose of this study was to determine the ‎relationship between food intake and...

background: high dietary fat consumption may alter oocyte development and embryonic development. this prospective study was conducted to determine the relation between dietary fat consumption level, its food sources and the assisted reproduction parameters. methods: a prospective study was conducted on 240 infertile women. in assisted reproduction treatment cycle, fat consumption and major food...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to examine associations between exposure to nutrition information as covered in mass media and daily fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional nutrition survey. SETTING Vocational schools in Vienna, Austria. SUBJECTS A sample of 2949 ethnically diverse adolescents with mean age 17.3 (sd 1.7) years. An FF...

INTRODUCTION Recently has been documented that the consumption of sweetened non-caloric beverages has increased as an option to weight control, however randomized control trials have demonstrated a modest weight loss. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of reducing consumption of beverage with caloric and non-caloric sweeteners on weight, body composition and blood pressure in young Mexican adul...

BACKGROUND The Rapid Bioconversion with Integrated recycle Technology (RaBIT) process reduces capital costs, processing times, and biocatalyst cost for biochemical conversion of cellulosic biomass to biofuels by reducing total bioprocessing time (enzymatic hydrolysis plus fermentation) to 48 h, increasing biofuel productivity (g/L/h) twofold, and recycling biocatalysts (enzymes and microbes) to...

We investigated the effect of exercise training on body composition change in women. Nineteen Mexican-American and 18 Korean premenopausal overweight/obese women were randomized into one of the following groups: control, low-intensity training group (LI), and high-intensity training group (HI). Subjects completed 12 weeks of training at 50-56% maximal oxygen consumption (LI) or 65-70% maximal o...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) consumption in a sample of patients with diabetes. MATERIAL AND METHODS We applied two questionnaires, one of food frequency adapted to products containing NNS and the other of beliefs related to NNS. The prevalence of NNS consumption was determined and correlated with the body mass index, energy and sugar consumption, wai...

The study of the occurrence and fate of pharmaceutical compounds in drinking or waste water processes has become very popular in recent years. Liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry is a powerful analytical tool often used to determine pharmaceutical residues at trace level in water. However, many steps may disrupt the analytical procedure and bias the results. A list of 27 environ...

A two-year, bilingual mass-media health education campaign was carried out in two communities with a third serving as control. In one of the two treated communities, personal couseling of high risk individuals ("intensive instruction") took place. Dietary behavior, before and after the campaigns, was assessed using a dietary questionnaire which estimated the average daily consumption by partici...

Consumption of green tea may reduce body weight gain. Although many disorders are related to obesity, bone mass is positively correlated with body mass. Therefore, our purpose in this study was to determine the effects of green tea extract (GTE) on bone mass and architecture in rapidly growing lean [C57BL/6 wild type (WT)] and genetically obese, leptin-deficient (ob/ob) male mice. Five-week-old...