Gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) were collected from four locations in western Lake Erie during summer, 1982. The nutritional quality of foods ingested by these fish was examined. Small (<60 mm standard length), age 0 fish consumed mostly zooplankton with high organic (>80% of dry weight) and nitrogen (>6% of dry weight) contents. The phytoplankton and detritus diets of larger, age 0 and adul...

Aging results in the development of cognitive and motor deficits in humans and animals that are evident by midlife. These deficits are thought to stem from neuronal damage and dysfunction as a result of a variety of stressors, including increased oxidative stress and modifications in brain lipid composition. Recent clinical and animal studies have identified nutritional intervention as a viable...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Nutritional assessment in the elderly is difficult and different from that performed in younger people. There are specific tools for that purpose, such as the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI). The study objective was to compare this index to the Nutritional Risk Index (NRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective, observational analytical study including 113 hos...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a healthy school tuck shop program, developed as a way of creating a healthy and nutritional school environment, on students' access to healthy foods. Five middle schools and four high schools (775 students) participated in the healthy school tuck shop program, and nine schools (1,282 students) were selected as the control group. The int...

As a major contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it has been suggested that reducing animal agriculture or consumption of animal-derived foods may reduce GHGs and enhance food security. Because the total removal of animals provides the extreme boundary to potential mitigation options and requires the fewest assumptions to model, the yearly nutritional and GHG impacts of el...

Nutritional life cycle assessment integrates nutrition into environmental analysis to comprehensively account for agri-food sustainability challenges including micronutrient deficiencies, nutrient diversity, and impacts like climate change or freshwater scarcity, when compared traditional assessment. We use regionally-explicit nutritional data at the food product country levels calculate impact...

Pregnant women with chronic energy deficiency (CED) are likely to have an increased risk of fetal death (stillbirths), premature birth, congenital disabilities, low birth weight infants (LBW), and infant mortality. CED also contributes approximately 40% stunting incidents in Indonesia. This study aimed identify the nutritional content local-based food consumed by pregnant women. research was ca...

malnutrition and dehydration are two most common types of ailments residents of nursing homes (nh) prone to. it is very important to assess these problems because they can predispose the residents to severe illnesses. the aim of this study was to gather information on nutritional status and its associated risk factors in elderly residents of nhs in tehran, iran.from 16 nhs in tehran, 263 reside...

OBJECTIVE To explore differences in the prevalence of outdoor food advertising, and the type and nutritional content of advertised foods, according to an area-based marker of socio-economic position (SEP) in a city in Northern England. DESIGN All outdoor advertisements in the city were identified during October-December 2009, their size (in m2) estimated and their location determined using a ...

background: calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body. this mineral is provided only by the consumption of foods containing calcium that it is recommended to use at least1300 mg daily for adults. this study is aimed to investigate the nutritional behavior of female high school students about consumption of calcium-rich foods.materials and methodsat a descriptive-analytical study, t...