A growth trial was conducted to detect the effects of different diets on the growth performance and hypoxia adaptation capacity of Mississippi Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) larvae. The larvae were fed with live food, formulated diets, and 1/2 live food with 1/2 formulated diets. After a 15-d growth trial, final body weight and total body length were measured, and five larvae from each dietary ...

Obesity endangers the lives of millions of people worldwide, through comorbidities such as heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes, stroke, arthritis, and major depression. New approaches to control body weight remain a high priority. Vaccines traditionally have been used to protect against infectious diseases and, more recently, for unconventional targets such as drug addiction. Methodologies ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether overweight women are more likely to have a hysterectomy and whether hysterectomy leads to increased weight gain. METHODS Survey data of middle-aged women participating in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's health in 1996 (ages 45-50 y; n = 13,125), 1998 (n = 10,612), 2001 (n = 10,293), and 2004 (n = 9309) included self-reported height, weight, and hy...

Low live weight gain of cattle in the wet season of tropical areas was identified as a major limitation to achieving annual growth rates from tropical pasture systems sufficient to meet new market specifications of young animals of high carcass weight. Both protein and energy are limiting nutrients for growth. Net transfer of feed protein to the intestines is often not complete, and losses occu...

Twenty ®ve growing crossbred bulls (Bos indicus Bos taurus) were used in a randomised block design experiment for 196 days to determine the effect of grainless concentrate containing different supplemental nitrogen sources along with wheat straw based diet on feed intake, nutrient digestibility, plane of nutrition and daily live weight gain. The animals in control group received barley 30% in t...

Two independent guidelines on appropriate weight gain for Japanese pregnant women have been established in 1997 and 2006. This study aimed to evaluate changes in the amount of gestational weight gain in pregnant women, the birth weight of their neonates, and the incidence of complications of pregnancy and neonatal outcome in women who delivered at Hyogo Prefectural Kaibara Hospital. Between 198...

There remainsmuch controversy over the risks and benefits of statins for primary prevention. Besides the risks of muscle aches, diabetes, and cognitive dysfunction, I have observed over the years that for many patients, statins provide a false reassurance, as people seem to believe that statins can compensate for poor dietary choices and a sedentary life. In an elegantly performed analysis of N...