Vegetarian diets are associated with factors that may not support bone health, such as low body mass and low intakes of protein; yet, these diets are alkaline, a factor that favors bone mineral density (BMD). This study compared the correlates of BMD in young, non-obese adults consuming meat-based (n = 27), lacto-ovo vegetarian (n = 27), or vegan (n = 28) diets for ≥1 year. A 24 h diet recall, ...

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of metabolizable energy (ME) and protein of Japanese quails diets on offspring performance and antibody production against sheep red blood cell (SRBC). A total of 432 Japanese quails (13 week-old) were divided into nine treatments. Each treatment comprised four replicates of twelve birds (9 female and 3 male). Nine diets including three levels of ...

The effects of dietary soy protein compared to casein were examined in male and female CD1-pcy/pcy (pcy) mice with polycystic kidney disease. Animals 10 wk of age were fed purified diets containing either soy protein isolate or casein given at a level of 17.4 or 6% protein. After 13 wk on the diets, body weights and serum concentrations of albumin and protein indicated that protein nutrition wa...

For some time studies have been made in this laboratory on the use of the baby pig as an experimental animal, and during this work diets low in fat have been found to support satisfactory performance (Tribe, 1954; McCrea & Tribe, 1956). This finding is somewhat surprising in view of the fact that sow’s milk is very rich in fat. For routine rearing of piglets a low-fat diet is preferable to one ...

W diets appeal to the growing population of overweight Americans. Fad diets promise rapid weight loss, easy weight loss, limited restrictions on portion sizes of favorite foods, and above all an enhanced sense of well being. The popularity of fad diets points out the honest promises of traditional weight loss diets. Traditional weight loss diets promise slow weight loss of 0.45 to 0.9 kg/week. ...

It has recently been established that the rate of progression of chronic renal failure in man can be slowed by restricting dietary protein. Consequently, the short term and long term effects of a low protein diet on the course of different chronic nephropathies were studied in an attempt to delineate the factors that determine the response to such a diet. When a low protein diet was given for s...

BACKGROUND TFAP2B rs987237 is associated with obesity and has shown interaction with the dietary fat-to-carbohydrate ratio, which has an effect on weight loss. We investigated interactions between rs987237 and protein-to-carbohydrate ratio or glycemic index (GI) in relation to weight maintenance after weight loss. METHODS This study included 742 obese individuals from 8 European countries who...

The present study examines the effects of dietary saturated (hydrogenated coconut oil) and polyunsaturated (salmon oil) fats on the composition and metabolism of lipoproteins in growing rats fed on protein-deficient diets. Four groups of rats were fed on the following diets for 28 d: 200 g casein + 50 g coconut oil (COC)/kg, 20 g casein + 50 g coconut oil (COd)/kg, 200 g casein + 50 g salmon oi...