INTRODUCTION In the last decades, dietary supplements consumption has increased in the Western world for all age groups. The long-term potentially dangerous effects related to an indiscriminate consumption of dietary supplements are still unknown and are becoming a matter of public health concern. Therefore, the aims of the present study were: to explore the contribution of dietary supplements ...

BACKGROUND In Pakistan, 51% of women are anaemic in pregnancy yet only 44% of women use antenatal iron-folic acid (IFA) supplements. Little information exits on the perception and barriers to the use of IFA supplements during pregnancy in Pakistan. The aim of the study was to understand women and healthcare providers' perceptions, and to investigate the cultural and behavioural factors influenc...

Microbial resistance towards antibiotic is menacing all over the world and therefore considered to be a global health issue. Their potentialities for adapting new mechanisms threaten our ability treat common infectious diseases. Hence it important explore alternative therapies combat microbial Among them, honeybee products comprise wide variety of dietary/nutritional supplements with range phar...

Endometrial stromal cell culture Endometrial biopsies were obtained by curettage from consenting women aged 18-40 in accordance with local ethics committee requirements. Endometrial stromal cells were isolated and cultured as described previously (1). All experiments were performed within the first three cell passages. To induce decidualization in vitro, hESCs were treated with 0.5 mM 8-Bromo-c...

Functional dietary supplements are now regarded as an important factor to keep physical health, maintain exercise status and improve athletic performance. More more sports industries focusing on such supplements, which makes the industry develop rapidly pay attention research development of different products, functions efficacy health care. In this paper, functional were classified summarized,...

medical therapies have been widely used for premenstrual syndrome (pms), but in all of them side effects are predominant. herbal remedies rarely have side effects and people have more tendencies toward them than chemical therapies. in this study the therapeutic effect of vitex agnus castus on women who had the pms, in comparison with placebo, were investigated. in this randomized, placebo-contr...

context the aim of this study was to review research articles concerning association between dietary factors and infertility in males and females. evidence acquisition literature review was performed on articles concerning male and female infertility and nutrition using the pubmed, embase, and scientific information databases between january 1978 and july 2014. the bibliographies of included st...

conclusions the vitamin d levels of children aged more than 2 years are lower than those of children aged less than 2 years. thus, prescribing vitamin d-containing supplements in children older than 2 years may be beneficial. results the final study consisted of 286 children, 140 males and 146 females, with a mean age of 4.46 ± 2.82 yr. of these, 218 (76.22%) children, with a mean age of 5.09 ±...

background the use of dietary supplements is very common in sport gyms worldwide. however, their use in exercisers in lebanese gyms has never been investigated. conclusions these results indicate a lack of awareness among people who exercise regularly on the benefits and side-effects of dietary supplements. there is an urgent need for the implementation of campaigns that target gym users in leb...