introduction: nutrition plays an important role in the protection and promotion of health. to plan and implement programs aiming at improving community nutritional status, a knowledge of the existing situation is essential. the aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine food and nutrient intakes of the inhabitants in tehran university of medical sciences population laboratory. methods: ...

Several lines of evidence suggest that brain histamine may be involved in the central control of food intake. The effect of histamine on feeding is mediated through three kinds of receptors (H1, H2, and H3). The present study was designed to investigate the effect of intracerebroventricular injection of histamine, promethazine (H1 antagonist) and ranitidine (H2 antagonist) on food intake of fre...

objective: achillea millefolium (a. millefolium) is known as an orexigenic herb in iranian traditional medicine. in this study, the possible orexigenic effect of hydro-alcoholic extract of a. millefolium was investigated by measuring plasma ghrelin level.materials and methods: thirty male wistar rats were divided into five groups. control group received water. treatment groups received 50, 100 ...

dietary knowledge and access to resources are critical to improve health and nutritional status in a sustainable way. the present study was conducted to assess the dietary pattern and associated intake of different essential nutrients and vitamins by adolescents in himachal pradesh of india. a sample of 150 adolescents in the age group of 11-19 years from the two selected blocks (panchrukhi and...

Several lines of evidence suggest that brain histamine may be involved in the central control of food intake. The effect of histamine on feeding is mediated through three kinds of receptors (H1, H2, and H3). The present study was designed to investigate the effect of intracerebroventricular injection of histamine, promethazine (H1 antagonist) and ranitidine (H2 antagonist) on food intake of fre...

 Background: Food insecurity consistently challenges middle-income countries, including Pakistan. The aim of this study was to evaluate the dietary food intake of the households in the selected location through a semi-structured questionnaire. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out among 500 households comprised 2094 participants to investigate dietary intake and status of food insecu...

this study was aimed to evaluate the effects of diets containing some hot and coldtemperament herb seeds according to iranian traditional medicine (itm) on some metabolicparameters in acute (24 h) and sub-acute (7 day) experiments that were performed on rats. foreach experiment, effects of diets containing 10% herb seeds in category of hot (anise, fennel,ajowan) and cold (cucumber, watermelon, ...

this study was carried out to investigate the interaction of simultaneous use of fluoxetine (flx), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and diclofenac (dcf), a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, on food intake in goldfish, carassius auratus . treatments with different dosage of flx including control, 0, 1, and 10  µg/g body weight (bw) were injected in the fish with mean weight of 30.16 ±...

introduction: dopamine plays an important role in the central nervous system for modulating food intake. dopamine receptors are distributed within the hypothalamus, and expression of d1 receptors is significant in hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (pvn). therefore, the aim of this study was to find if pvn-microinjected skf38393, d1 receptor agonist, may modulate food intake. methods: guide c...

objective(s):consumption of high-fat foods is one of the major causes of obesity. physical exercise is a strategy used to counteract obesity. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks endurance training and high-fat diet (hfd) on appetite-regulating hormones in rat plasma. materials and methods:twenty eight male wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups: contro...