Enteral nutrition in critically ill patients has been widely debated. Some of the questions include optimal time to begin enteral feeding, gastric versus small-bowel tube placement, and what markers should be used to measure intolerance to enteral nutrition. Although some of these questions are yet to be answered, more evidence has become available since the 1990s to guide practice. For critica...

BACKGROUND Arabinoxylans (AXs) are major components of plant cell walls in bread wheat and are important in bread-making and starch extraction. Furthermore, arabinoxylans are components of soluble dietary fibre that has potential health-promoting effects in human nutrition. Despite their high value for human health, few studies have been carried out on the genetics of AX content in durum wheat....

Zinc (Zn) nutrition is of key relevance in India, as a large fraction of the population suffers from Zn malnutrition and many soils contain little plant available Zn. In this study we compared organic and conventional wheat cropping systems with respect to DTPA (diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid)-extractable Zn as a proxy for plant available Zn, yield, and grain Zn concentration. We analyzed...

OBJECTIVE We examined the association between dietary patterns and diabetes using the strengths of two methods: principal component analysis (PCA) to identify the eating patterns of the population and reduced rank regression (RRR) to derive a pattern that explains the variation in glycated Hb (HbA1c), homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and fasting glucose. DESIGN We ...

It has long been known that loss of body weight, negative nitrogen balance, and hypoproteinemia constitute the first signs of protein deficiency in man and experimental animals. However, in a series of studies sponsored by the Bureau of Biological Research of Rutgers University, in which six reference proteins were evaluated by different methods of assay, paradoxical findings were obtained in r...

Mankind has existed for 2·5 million years but only in the last 10,000 years have we been exposed to wheat. Wheat was first cultivated in the Fertile Crescent (South Western Asia) with a farming expansion that lasted from about 9000BC to 4000BC. Thus it could be considered that wheat (and gluten) is a novel introduction to man's diet! Prior to 1939 the rationing system had already been devised. ...

Staple cereals always have been important dietary components, yet recent debates on their role in human diets are riddled with myths and misinformation. This article examines the informational controversies, particularly about wheat, reviews evidence. The discussion centers three nutritional cereal debates: i) ‘empty calories’, ii) over-consumption, iii) how ‘free-from’ fads confound transition...

In this study, the proximate composition, microbiological, and nutrition evaluation of wheat-mango flakes was studied. A preliminary research work done to ascertain optimum acceptable levels mango pulp addition wheat flake production using 0 80 % (w/v) pulp. Sensory most accepted samples were selected. Consequently, in main research, level varied a ratio 50 giving rise total five (5) samples. P...