Background: Studies on the relationship of urinary sodium with overweight and obesity led to controversial results. Furthermore, no study has ever investigated the association between sodium status and obesity in Iranian adults. The present study examined the association of urinary sodium levels with overweight and obesity in adults living in Yazd, Iran. Methods: The present study recruited 240...

Background & objectives: Proper food labeling can help improve a diet and health. Due to the importance of sodium in the diet, determining the amount of sodium in food and comparing it with the amount reported on nutrition labels was the objective of the present study. Methods: In this study, 96 high-consumption foods were examined in 5 groups, including meat and protein products, dairy produc...

background and objectives: for total analytical error, imprecision (sd) and bias, performance goals for laboratory tests have most often been developed. a total analytical error goal requires that the combination of errors from all sources (random and systematic errors) be within some acceptable limit. materials and methods: fifty vials of sodium and potassium standards (sandos company) were ch...

the present study evaluated the effect of packaging (air, vacuum) with or without addition of sodium acetate (2% w/v) on shelf-life extension of rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) under refrigeration, for a period of 18 days. four different treatments were tested: cap: control air pack; saap: sodium acetate treated aerobic packaging; vp: vacuum packaging in the absence of sodium acetate; and s...

the effects of aflatoxin (af) (0.0 and 0.5m g kg-1) and high grade sodium bentonite (hgsb) (5, 7.5 and 10 g kg-1) were tested in an in vivo study including 8 dietary treatments with three replicates of 14 birds per diet per replicate, using a total of 336 broiler chicks up to five weeks. results showed that chicks receiving af contaminated feed had significantly (p≤ 0.05) suppressed body weight...

the presence of microbial load and high fiber content in various non conventional feedstuffs limit their utilization in poultry feed. in the present study, the feedstuffs were treated with acidified sodium chlorite (asc) and its impact on  the microbial load and metabolizable energy availability was assessed in  the chickens. the effect of supplementation of feed grade enzyme was also evaluated...