inappropriate feeding grounds for many common diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. this study was conducted to determine knowledge, attitude and nutrition and its relationship with body mass index (bmi) was to allow students using data and recognize the status quo and in order to increase awareness, attitude and nutrition of students and strengthen the indicators and t...

BACKGROUND Cycle ergometer training (CET) has been shown to improve exercise performance of the quadriceps muscles in patients with COPD, and inspiratory muscle training (IMT) may improve the pressure-generating capacity of the inspiratory muscles. However, the effects of combined CET and IMT remain unclear and there is a lack of comprehensive assessment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-one pati...

The literature confirmed the existence of gender discrimination in children’s health, nutrition and education in South Asia. This study examines, whether there are sex differences in stunting and wasting among schooling-going children (5-14 years) and how they are affected by socioeconomic factors. A sample of 684 school-going children of both sexes (376 male children and 308 female children) w...

This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional value (proximate composition, fatty acid profiles, vitamins and minerals) contents and also nutritional quality indices (NQI)) of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) prepared according to common consumer techniques: raw, poached, steamed, microwaved, pan-fried and deep-fried (in olive oil). In comparison to raw fish fillets, when grass carp was cook...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Malnutrition in cancer patients has many causes. Nutritional status is usually assessed from weight/height indices. These present limitations for the nutritional assessment of cancer patients: their weights include tumor mass, and lean mass changes are not reflected in weight/height indices. The objective was to evaluate differences between two anthropometric methods and c...

OBJECTIVE Artificial nutrition (AN) is now considered medical therapy and has progressively become one of the mainstays of the different therapeutic options available for home or hospitalized patients, including surgical, medical, and critically ill patients. The clinical relevance of any therapy is based on its efficacy and effectiveness and thus on the improvement of its cost efficiency, i.e....

Heat stress negatively impacts a variety of dairy and beef parameters including milk yield, growth and reproduction and therefore is a significant financial burden (~$900 million/year for dairy and > $300 million/year in beef in the U.S.; St. Pierre et al., 2003). Advances in management (i.e. cooling systems; Armstrong, 1994; VanBaale et al., 2005) and nutritional strategies (West, 2003) have a...