Key words for 2020: Pandemic, emergency, anomie

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SUMMARY Diagnostic residual and partial residual plots are proposed to identify nonlinearity in covariates for generalized linear models. It is shown that these plots are complement each other in the detection of nonlinearity. In addition, a transformed additive model which allows the resulting residual and partial residual plots to be obtained through the standard least squares approach is pro...

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Nutrition for Special Circumstances Key Words

• Adverse reactions to food can be classified as either immune mediated (e.g. food allergy, FA) or nonimmune mediated (e.g. food intolerance, FI). Nonimmune-mediated reactions are the most prevalent. • Eight foods (milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish and shellfish) account for 90% of all IgEmediated food allergies. • Celiac disease is a classical example of a non-IgEmediated advers...

Nutrition for Disease States Key Words

• There are two subtypes of eating behaviors in anorexia nervosa (AN): the restricting type and the binge eating/purging type. • In addition to effectively treating mood and cognitive disturbances, weight restoration is a central element of AN treatment. • Weight restoration can be divided into two phases: acute stabilization and weight maintenance. • During hospitalization, AN patients tend to...

Key words: vegetarianism, diabetes mellitus

Vegetarianism is an old classic eating behavior that leads to lessening of several health risk factors. Vegetarian diet is reported to improve control of blood glucose concentration, to lower insulin requirement and to aid in weight control in diabetic patients. However, there is no evidence for the prevalence of diabetes mellitus to be significantly lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians...