OBJECTIVE To describe homeless youths' experiences of food insecurity and examine the relation between chronic food deprivation and food acquisition practices. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey of homeless youths was conducted in 2003 to assess their nutritional vulnerability and describe their food acquisition practices. SETTING Toronto, Canada. SUBJECTS Two hundred and sixty-one youths, a...

Based on both animal and human studies, inequality in food intake and social instability has adverse effects on the health of individuals and the community. However, it is not known whether social instability, food deprivation and food inequality affect neuronal death and premature aging in young animals. To address this question, the effects of these adverse situations, histopathological chang...

background: fasting is an alternative method to induceanorexia. objectives: the biochemical factors of liver andserum and clinical signs were measured and documented in fivenon-lactating, non-pregnant cows following eight days of fasting.methods:five crossbred, non-lactating, and non-pregnantcattle were used in this study. they were fasted for 8 days_ totalfood deprivation; however, they had fr...

Hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) activity is believed to play an important role in the response to food deprivation in adult rats. Little is known, however, about the role of the hypothalamic NPY system in the control of food intake in the preweanling rat. To address this issue, we examined the effect of deprivation on arcuate nucleus preproNPY expression in lean Zucker rat pups, using in situ...

is altered by food deprivation Shaun S. Killen*, Cheng Fu, Qingyi Wu, Yu-Xiang Wang and Shi-Jian Fu* Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ UK; Laboratory of Evolutionary Physiology and Behaviour, College of Life Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 400047 China; ...

OBJECTIVE Although the sociodemographic characteristics of food-insecure households have been well documented, there has been little examination of neighbourhood characteristics in relation to this problem. In the present study we examined the association between household food security and neighbourhood features including geographic food access and perceived neighbourhood social capital. DES...

Food and water deprivation-frequent torture methods occur for a variety of reasons. It may be used as a political tool or a method of self-harm. To the best of our knowledge, no solid data are available relating the long-term food deprivation and the eye lens, therefore this study aims to clue this relation if any. Rats were food deprived for one, three and six days. The lenses were enucleated ...