The objectives of the study was to determine the total lipid content, fatty acid composition and tocopherol content of muscle of eleven fresh water fishes belongs to Cichlidae, Anabantidae, Siluridae, Cyprinidae, Channidae families lived in reservoirs in Sri Lanka and to find high nutritious fresh water fish and the relationship of diet of fish with the feeding habits of fish. Muscle lipid cont...

The diet of free-ranging bears is an important dimension regarding their ecology, affecting behavior, population structure, and relation with humans. In Croatia, there has been no recent study on the natural food habits brown (Ursus arctos) or influence artificial feeding sites diet. During 2017, we collected 53 bear stomachs from in 2 regions Croatia—Gorski Kotar Lika—to assess Plants—Allium u...

Background Complementary Feeding between 6 and 24 months of age underlies nutritional habits in adulthood which can be formed by mothers through these habits. This study was conducted in Kerman aiming to apply the social cognitive theory (SCT) in feeding practices of mothers for their children aged 6 to 24 months. Materials and Methods This quasi-experimental study, controlled before and aft...

 Background: The early postoperative feeding after caesarean section (C- section) has remained controversial. This study was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of early versus delayed postcaesarean section oral feeding regarding gastrointestinal complications and patients postoperative satisfaction after C- section. Methods: This clinical trial study was conducted on 200 p...

Aiming at learning the association between the gut microbiota and termites with different diet habits and phylogenetic positions, the gut bacteria of three populations for each of the two higher termites (wood-feeding Mironasutitermes shangchengensis and fungus-feeding Odontotermes formosanus) and two wood-feeding lower termites (Tsaitermes ampliceps and Reticulitermes flaviceps) were analyzed ...

Food habits and daily feeding activity of fish populations are important ecological variables for understanding their role in the ecosystem. Diel changes in feeding activity and dietary composition of juvenile whitemouth croaker Micropogonias furnieri, shortfin corvina Isopisthus parvipinnis, shorthead drum Larimus breviceps and of juvenile and adult banded croaker Paralonchurus brasiliensis we...