• Background: Many patients are asking about weight reduction diets publicized in the lay press, such as “Protein Power,” “Sugar Busters,” and “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution.” A common theme of these diets is the restriction of carbohydrate intake. • Objective: To summarize the published medical literature regarding very low carbohydrate (< 40 g/day) diets. • Methods: A MEDLINE search and han...

Background: Many of the benefits of soy have been attributed to soy isoflavones. Objective: The objective was to determine the effects of highand low-isoflavone soy-protein foods on both lipid and nonlipid risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods: Forty-one hyperlipidemic men and postmenopausal women participated in a study with three 1-mo diets: a low-fat dairy food control diet...

The apparent digestibility of energy, protein, fat and non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) of low and high dietary fibre (DF) mixed diets were studied in three series of experiments with man and the rat. Low DF diets were used as control diets in each experimental series and the DF level was increased by adding fruits and vegetables (Study 1), citrus fibre concentrate (Study 2) and insoluble barle...

Abstract Low-protein (LP) diets may become limiting in nitrogen (N), affecting utilization of essential amino acids (EAA) for retention (NR). The objective the present study was to determine effect EAA-N total N ratio (EAA-N:TN) on lysine (Lys) requirement NR. A 80 growing barrows (21.5±0.89 kg initial BW) were randomly assigned 1 10 dietary treatments (n=8 pigs/treatment) 8 blocks a 2 × 5 fact...

Background: Protein inadequacy is prevalent in developing countries because of the high consumption starchy staple foods. Sago, as a food Papua Province, was eaten with less protein. This study aimed to analyze nutritional status protein-energy well-nourished adults moderately low protein in-take (MLP)-sago group compared sufficient intake (SP)-rice group, lowland Mimika, Papua.<...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of feeding dietary soy protein and soy protein supplemented with methionine on lipids and lipoproteins content of blood in wistar rats. sixteen male and 16 female wistar rats with the initial live weight of 116 ± 6.3 and 115.8 ± 6.8 grams respectively, were fed by the isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets containing casein (20%), soy protein...

Four 28-d trials were conducted using a total of 432 pigs, with average initial weight across trials ranging from 6.3 to 9.7 kg, to estimate the tryptophan (trials 1 and 2) and threonine (trials 3 and 4) requirements of pigs fed low protein, corn-sunflower meal diets. The effect of tryptophan, threonine and protein level on serum calcium, phosphorus and zinc also was studied. The diets containe...

Diets containing soybean protein generally induce low levels of serum cholesterol in experimental animals, when compared with diets containing casein. The hypocholesterolemia in animals fed soybean protein is associated with increased rates of fecal excretion of bile acids and neutral steroids, low liver cholesterol concentrations, increased numbers of hepatic apo B/E receptors, increased rates...