OBJECTIVE To analyze food consumption and dietary factors involved in the Nikkei population's health and disease processes METHODS A systematic review of observational studies that described Nikkeis' food intake was carried out in electronic databases Lilacs, SciELO and PubMed/Medline databases, from 1997 to 2012. Initially, 137 titles and abstracts were analyzed, excluding intervention studi...

Geographical and migration epidemiological studies, backed up by experimental studies, have produced overwhelming evidence that diet drives colon cancer risk, with high intakes of meat and fat increasing risk, and high consumption rates of fiber rich foods, such as grains, fruits and vegetables, reducing risk. To test our hypothesis that cancer risk is determined by the effect the diet has on t...

Obesity is the accumulation of excess adipose tissue that affects a person's health and physical psychosocial well-being. The classification based on body mass index, which makes it possible to compare prevalence rates worldwide. overweight have become global epidemic in both developed developing countries. objective this study assess obesity some results showed last two decades, world has more...

INTRODUCTION Unhealthy dietary habits are major risk factors for chronic diseases, particularly if adopted during early years of adulthood. Limited studies have explored the food consumption patterns among young adults in Lebanon. Our study aimed to examine common dietary patterns and their correlates among a large sample of university student population in Lebanon, focusing on correlation with...

Iron supplementation reduces the frequency and severity of breath-holding attacks (BHAs), particularly in children with iron deficiency. The issue of iron supplementation is less clear for Westernized children with BHAs who present to an outpatient community clinic and are not iron-deficient. This is the first reported case series of iron-replete children with frequent and disabling breath-hold...

Perturbations in the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota composition that occur as a result of antibiotics and diet in "westernized" countries are strongly associated with allergies and asthma ("hygiene hypothesis"). The microbiota ("microflora") plays a crucial role in the development of mucosal tolerance, including the airways. Significant attention has been focused on the role of the microbiota...

In a climate of increasing concern about the high incidence of coronary heart disease in South Africa, calls are increasingly being made for South Africans to alter their diet. Can this exhortation be justified, and are the right foods being singled out as culprits? If changes in the eating habits of a nation are advocated, the advice must not only be soundly based in terms of likely benefit bu...

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a malignancy that manifests in the lymphatic system, is one of the most commonly occurring hematologic disease types in the United States and other Westernized countries. NHL is divided into a range of subtypes with differing clinical features and outcomes. Depending on the type of NHL and the patient's overall clinical presentation, treatment varies from systemic co...