Transition from parenteral to enteral nutrition induces immediate diet1 dependent gut histological and immunological responses in preterm neonates 2 3 Jayda Siggers, Per T. Sangild, Tim K. Jensen, Richard H. Siggers, Kerstin Skovgaard, Ann 4 Cathrine F. Støy, Bent B. Jensen, Thomas Thymann, Stine B. Bering, Mette Boye 5 6 Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Co...

Type 2 diabetes is a global public health crisis that threatens the economies of all nations, particularly developing countries. Fueled by rapid urbanization, nutrition transition, and increasingly sedentary lifestyles, the epidemic has grown in parallel with the worldwide rise in obesity. Asia's large population and rapid economic development have made it an epicenter of the epidemic. Asian po...

The green alga Chlamydobotrys stellata contains in addition to the normal light-harvesting chlorophyll protein complex LHCPb a special LHCPa which is free of chlorophyll b and connected only to photosystem I (Brandt, Zufall, Wiessner 1983 Plant Physiol 71: 128-131). The kinetics of these two LHCP forms were analyzed during the transition in nutrition of the alga from autotrophy to photoheterotr...

Intestinal failure (IF) is a condition where there is insufficient functional bowel to allow for adequate nutrient and fluid absorption to sustain adequate growth in children. Several etiologies can predispose to IF, including necrotizing enterocolitis, gastroschisis, and intestinal atresias. Intestinal rehabilitation can be seen as a 3-pronged strategy merging nutrition, pharmacologic, and sur...

Nutrition transition is characterised by shift to highly refined diets high in fat, salt and caloric sweeteners and low in fibre in rapidly growing economies. Dietary shifts occur almost concurrently with demographic and epidemiologic shifts, urbanisation and industrialisation and together contribute to increased prevalence of nutrition related (NR)-non-communicable disease (NCR). The emergence...

This paper reviews the current situation concerning nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (N-NCDs) and the risk factors associated with these diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). A systematic literature review of studies and reports published between January 1, 1990 and September 15, 2011 was conducted using the PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Cardiovascular disease, ty...

Over the past two decades, there has been a shift towards consumption of energy-dense, imported processed foods and fast foods accompanied by a neglect of the traditional diets in many developing countries. A neglect of traditional food (TF) systems is related to nutrition transition marked by an increased consumption of unhealthy processed foods and significant lifestyle changes such as inadeq...

Research in preventive nutrition aims at elucidating mechanism by which our diet helps us to remain in good health through optimal physiological functions. However, despite decades of accumulated data in human nutrition and regular subsequent nutritional recommendations, obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics continue to progress worldwide each year leading to a regular decrease of the Healthy L...

BACKGROUND In the Russian Federation (Russia), an elevated burden of premature mortality attributable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has been observed since the country's economic transition. NCDs are largely related to preventable risk factors such as unhealthy diets. OBJECTIVE This health policy study's aim was to analyze past and current food production and nutritional trends in Russi...

The nutrition transition, currently occurring in Asia and the Pacific, is one facet of a more general demographic, nutritional, epidemiological transition which accompanies development and urbanization. The nutrition transition itself is marked by a shift away from relatively monotonous diets of varying nutritional quality (based on indigenous staple grains or starchy roots, locally grown legum...