OBJECTIVE To develop a measure of pharmacists' patient counseling on herbal and dietary supplements. METHODS A systematic process was used for item generation, testing, and validation of a measure of pharmacists counseling on herbal and dietary supplements. Because a pharmacist-patient encounter may or may not identify an indication for taking an herb or dietary supplement, the instrument was...

Production of chicken meat is an important branch of food industry. Generally, poultry meat farmers aim to produce birds with superior body weight and feed conversion ratio. However, in line with current developments, there are other parameters that must to be taken into account such as lower body fat deposition and improvement in the nutrient composition of products corresponding to consumer r...

3. SACN have reviewed the available scientific evidence for components under consideration for inclusion in the Codex definition on dietary fibre for nutrition labelling purposes, using the SACN frame work for assessing evidence (SACN 2002). These components include total fibre, non starch polysaccharides, fibre components from cereal, fibre components from fruit and vegetables, starch, resista...

Abstract Background Despite the protective effects of foods being rich in phytochemicals against chronic diseases, this issue is still poorly understood. The aim study was to investigate association between Dietary Phytochemical Index (DPI) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) its components. Methods This cross-sectional focused on adults aged 20 70years . dietary intake assessed using a validated rel...

production of chicken meat is an important branch of food industry. generally, poultry meat farmers aim to produce birds with superior body weight and feed conversion ratio. however, in line with current developments, there are other parameters that must to be taken into account such as lower body fat deposition and improvement in the nutrient composition of products corresponding to consumer r...

After birth, development of a normal microbial community occurs gradually, and is affected by factors such as the composition of the maternal gut microbiota, the environment, and the host genome. Diet also has a direct influence, both on composition and activity of this community. This influence begins with the milk, when specific components exert their growth-promoting effect on a beneficial m...

The nutrients are able to interact with molecular mechanisms and modulate the physiological functions in the body. The Nutritional Genomics focuses on the interaction between bioactive food components and the genome, which includes Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics. The influence of nutrients on f genes expression is called Nutrigenomics, while the heterogeneous response of gene variants to nutri...

Clinical evidence reveals that the efficacy of dietary factors to prevent cancer is probably stage-dependent. The ability to demonstrate stage-specific effects of dietary compounds on normal, preneoplastic and malignant cell models may provide insights into puzzling clinical results from cancer chemoprevention trials. The relevance of these models to the field of cancer prevention is immense an...