OBJECTIVE To test the impact of physician education and facilitator assisted office system interventions on cancer early detection and preventive services. DESIGN A randomised trial of two interventions alone and in combination. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Physicians in 98 ambulatory care practices in the United States. INTERVENTIONS The education intervention consisted of a day long physician m...

Background: It was suggested that dietary patterns might play a role in the pathogenesis of nephrolithiasis. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between dietary patterns and the occurrence of calcium oxalate kidney stone disease. Methods: A case-control study was conducted on 634 male and female participants aged 18-65 in Tehran using a convenient sampling method. The partic...

Many public health recommendations are not truly evidence based (Brownson et al., 2003). Although some public health decisions can and should be made in the face of inconclusive data, many should not. The need for restraint may be especially salient when considering dietary guidelines. Dietary fat recommendations are a case in point, because they may have led to significant and harmful unintend...

Background: In developing countries, dietary intakes of arachidonic acid (ARA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in early life are lower than current recommended levels. This review specifically focusses on the contribution that complementary feeding makes to ARA and DHA intakes in mediumto low-income countries. The aims of the review are (1) to determine the availability of ARA and DHA food sourc...

nutritive value of rumen epithelial scraping (rep) was assessed using in sacco and in vivo procedures. concentrates were so formulated that 0% (a), 35% (b), 70% (c), and 100% (d) of soybean meal (sbm), were replaced (weight for weight) with rep. in a completely randomized design, 16 west african dwarf (wad) goats were randomly allocated to the experimental diets to assess feed intake and digest...

background and aims: nutrition has a determinant role in success of professional athletes and dietary supplements can play an important role for supplying the nutritional needs for them in some situations. consumption of dietary supplements (ds) was significantly increased in recent years. based on this fact, assessing the amount, purposes and type of the supplements are all as prior as the aff...

background: through its membrane and intracellular receptors, vitamin d regulates many vital functions in the body including its well known actions on musculoskeletal system. growing body of evidences demonstrate that vitamin d undergoes some of behavioral aspects of neurocognition. the present study was designed to evaluate the effect of food regimens without vitamin d or with a supplement of ...

background: increasing prevalence of obesity is a major health concern. lifestyle behaviors and diet play an important role in developing childhood obesity. the aim of this study was to determine the association between major dietary patterns and overweight/obesity in a group of iranian school‑aged children. methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted in isfahan, iran with 637 elementary ...

nutritional status during adolescence plays an important role in human lifecycle. the aim of this study was nutritional status and dietary intake among adolescent girls. in a cross sectional study, using two stage cluster sampling 256 adolescent girls were randomly selected from 8 semnan secondary schools. weight and height were measured and body mass index (bmi) was calculated. in adolescents,...