For an embryo transfer program to be effective, numerous factors need to be put in place to ensure success. Nutrition, estrous cycle control, donor and recipient management are all factors responsible for the success or failure in fertility for a given herd. Utilization of body condition score is a practical method to determine nutritional status of both recipients and donors. Prepartum nutriti...

Zeranol implants were administered to 250 crossbred heifer calves at 1, 6 or 9 mo of age to evaluate growth, reproduction and calving performance. Heifers were assigned to eight treatment groups with 25 animals per group. Two additional groups of 25 heifers each were used to study the effects of multiple implants at two levels of nutrition on heifer performance. Implants at 1 mo of age (brandin...

We evaluated heifers crossbred from seven breeds of sires (Hereford, Angus, Belgian Blue, Piedmontese, Brahman, Boran, and Tuli) and three breeds of dams (Angus, Hereford, and MARC III [four-breed composite]). Heifers were mated to Red Poll sires to calve at 2 yr of age. Heifers were placed in two treatments from weaning to breeding and raised on a high nutrition level (15.8 Mcal ME/d) or on 80...

In the last decade, we have seen a substantial increase in development and use of mobile technology to improve diet healthy eating behaviors. Objective: To describe characteristics nutrition apps before after COVID-19 pandemic available Brazil. Methods: Nutrition were identified using official Apple Google stores. The search occurred January 2020 May 2022 We extracted nutritional content standa...

BACKGROUND: Secular changes assessment can help identifying the quality of health, wealth, and nutrition among populations provide suggestions for policymakers. AIM: To examine secular in weight, height, body mass index, somatotype Indonesian children between 1999 2019. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted 2019 on 2021 aged 7–15 years Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Anthropometric measureme...

QUESTION In adults who experience nocturnal leg cramps, does stretching of the calf and hamstring muscles each day just before sleep reduce the frequency and severity of the cramps? DESIGN A randomised trial with concealed allocation and intention-to-treat analysis. PARTICIPANTS Eighty adults aged over 55 years with nocturnal leg cramps who were not being treated with quinine. INTERVENTIO...

The aim of this paper is to describe innovations taking place in national nutrition surveys in the UK and the challenges of undertaking innovations in such settings. National nutrition surveys must be representative of the overall population in characteristics such as socio-economic circumstances, age, sex and region. High response rates are critical. Dietary assessment innovations must therefo...

Picture book reading is a common activity in the lives of many children. This work describes the frequency and character of picture book reading in American homes. Seventy-seven monolingual English-speaking families with children between the ages of 18-30 months took part in a 5-day diary study in which caregivers recorded details about picture book reading activities. This sample is characteri...