Abbreviations: SF, soluble fibre; SU.VI.MAX, Supplementation en Vitamines et Minéraux AntioXydants; TDF, total dietary fibre. *Corresponding author: Dr Denis Lairon, fax + 33 4 91 75 15 62, email [email protected] CAB InternationalPNSProceedings of Nutrition Society (2003)0029-6651© Nutrition Society 2003 621 PNS 210General aspects f dietary fibreD. Lairon et al.11 15 5© Nutritio Socie...

The calcium supplementation status during the postpartum period among Chinese lactating women is still unclear. The objective of this study is to utilize data from two population-based prospective cohort studies to examine the calcium supplementation status and to identify whether breastfeeding is associated with increased calcium supplementation among Chinese mothers after child birth. Informa...

The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between dietary fibre intake and some clinical indices, blood biochemical variables and the incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancers in France, taking advantage of an ongoing cohort, the Supplementation en Vitamines et Minéraux AntioXydants (SU.VI.MAX) intervention study. This preliminary report provides data on dietary fibre intak...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate nutritional status and dietary habits after implementation of a nutritional education program in professional handball players. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Longitudinal study of 14 handball players evaluated with 72-h recall, a questionnaire on food consumption and anthropometric measures during 4 months. The intervention consisted of a nutrition education program. ...

The 2011 vitamin D recommendations set by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine was the first time that Estimated Average Requirements (EAR) and Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) were given for vitamin D. Previous versions (i.e., 1997 and earlier) used Adequate Intakes, implying less certainty of evidence to determine the EAR. It is difficult to set requirements for vitami...

The World Food Summit in 1996 provided a comprehensive definition for food security which brings into focus the linkage between food, nutrition and health. India has been self sufficient in food production since seventies and low household hunger rates. India compares well with developing countries with similar health profile in terms of infant mortality rate (IMR) and under five mortality rate...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To draw attention to recent work on the role of protein and the amount of protein needed with each meal to preserve skeletal muscle mass in ageing. RECENT FINDINGS Ageing does not inevitably reduce the anabolic response to a high-quality protein meal. Ingestion of approximately 25-30 g of protein per meal maximally stimulates muscle protein synthesis in both young and older ...

We aimed to study the composition and availability of various vitamin preparations in the Indian market, data about which was collected from an annual Drug Compendium. The preparations were assessed for total number, different formulations, constituents and amount of each constituent present in the formulation. A large number of vitamin supplements are available in the Indian market. It include...

The mechanisms driving the spatial patterns of species richness and composition are essential to the understanding of biodiversity. Numerous studies separately identify the contributions of the environment (niche process) and space (neutral process) to the species richness or composition at different scales, but few studies have investigated the contributions of both types of processes in the t...