OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of nutritional guidelines for school lunch cooks aiming to reduce added sugar in school meals and their own sugar intake. METHODS A controlled randomized cluster trial was carried out in twenty public schools in the municipality of Niteroi in Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, from March to December 2007. A nutrition educational program was implemented in the ...

Peptide hormones are potent signaling molecules that coordinate animal physiology, behavior, and development. A key step in activation of these peptide signals is their proteolytic processing from propeptide precursors by a family of proteases, the subtilisin-like proprotein convertases (PCs). Here, we report the functional dissection of amontillado (amon), which encodes the Drosophila homolog ...

The study was conducted to develop the mixed fermented vegetable pickles from carrot, green chilli and brinjal. Fermentation was carried in 10% salt solution, 8% salt plus 1% sugar solution and 8% salt plus 1% sugar and 1% acetic acid solution. During fermentation the acidity (expressed as lactic acid) increased with fermentation time progressed resulting in first order kinetics as carbohydrate...

We investigated developmental time difference in response to dietary restriction (DR) in two sibling species, Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans, which were collected at the same time from two different localities in Turkey. Different diets used in this experiment were: standard (C), sugar reduced (DR-S), yeast reduced (DR-Y), and sugar with yeast reduced (DR-SY) diets. When the sp...

In this paper, we develop a heart disease prediction model that can assist medical professionals in predicting heart disease status based on the clinical data of patients. Firstly, we select 14 important clinical features, i.e., age, sex, chest pain type, trestbps, cholesterol, fasting blood sugar, resting ecg, max heart rate, exercise induced angina, old peak, slope, number of vessels colored,...

Sugar transport is critical for normal plant development and stress responses. However, functional evidence for the roles of monosaccharide transporters in rice (Oryza sativa) has not previously been presented. In this study, reversed genetics was used to identify OsGMST1 as a member of the monosaccharide transporter family in rice. The predicted 481 amino acid protein has the typical features ...

diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disorder, causes many complications such as micro- and macro-vascular diseases. anti-diabetic, hypolipidemic and anti-oxidative properties of ginger have been noticed in several researches. the present study was conducted to investigate the effects of ginger on fasting blood sugar, hemoglobin a1c, apolipoprotein b, apolipoprotein a-i, and malondial...

Transporters mediate the influx of nutrients and excretion of metabolites in mammalian cells, playing a key role in the regulation of metabolism. They are natural targets for cell engineering to alter metabolic characteristics. The GLUT5 fructose transporter was stably expressed in a Chinese hamster ovary cell line, allowing clones to utilize fructose in place of glucose in culture medium. Comp...

Oxidative stress induced by alloxan has been shown to damage pancreatic beta-cell and produce hyperglycemia in rats. Aegle marmelos leaf extract is being used in Ayurveda as a medicine for diabetes. The present study examined the action of Aegle marmelos against experimental diabetes as well as the antioxidant potential of the drug. A methanolic extract of Aegle marmelos was found to reduce blo...

Changes in photosynthesis, carbon partitioning, and growth following resupply of orthophosphate (Pi) to moderately P-deficient plants (low-P) were determined for sugar beets (Beta vulgaris L. cv F58-554H1) cultured hydroponically in growth chambers. One set of plants was supplied with 1.0 mM Pi in half-strength Hoagland solution (control plants), and a second set (low-P plants) was supplied wit...