In the United States as well as many other countries, intake recommendations exist for a variety of food groups, such as fruits and vegetables, dairy products and whole grains. No such recommendation exists for soyfoods. The Chinese government recommends consuming at least 50 g of soyfoods daily as one step toward meeting nutrient needs [1]. However, this recommendation does not consider the po...

The three tables here provide the reader with a snapshot of ‘‘an average week in the life’’ of the usual working-aged population between 18 and 64 years in 23 countries (see the methodological notes at the end for two slight exceptions to the age range). Table 1 covers the 168 h weekly hours for people of both sexes, Table 2 covers the weekly hours for women only, while Table 3 covers men. All ...

BACKGROUND Resistance to antibiotics is a major public-health problem and antibiotic use is being increasingly recognised as the main selective pressure driving this resistance. Our aim was to assess outpatient use of antibiotics and the association with resistance. METHODS We investigated outpatient antibiotic use in 26 countries in Europe that provided internationally comparable distributio...

after iron deficiency, zinc deficiency is the major micronutrient deficiency in developing countries, and staple food fortification is an effective strategy to prevent and improve it among at-risk-populations. no action has been taken to reduce zinc deficiency via flour fortification so far in iran, and little is known about the influence of zinc fortification of flour on serum zinc and the iro...

Dna2 was first characterized in yeast as an essential gene encoding a protein with both helicase and endonuclease activities involved in maturation of Okazaki fragments during DNA replication. Dna2 also plays a role in double-strand break (DSB) repair by homolo-gous recombination. The respective contributions of its replication and/or repair functions toward cell viability and resistance to gen...