background: to examine the effects of soy [in the form of textured soy protein (tsp) and soy-nut] on body composition in elderly women with metabolic syndrome (mets). methods: a 12-week randomized clinical trial was conducted on 75 women between 60-70 years of age with mets in rural health clinics around babol, iran in 2009. the participants were randomly assigned to one of the three groups of ...

Control of ration quantity and composition is important in the management of horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) or equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) that exhibit obesity and/or hyperinsulinemia. In obesity, restriction of daily dry matter intake to 1.25% to 1.5% of current body weight will facilitate weight loss and improvement in insulin sensitivity in most horses, although...

conclusions the present study has demonstrated that a combination of exercise and silymarin can improve body composition and adiponectin levels. background silymarin has powerful antioxidant properties, but its effects on athletic performance are poorly understood. objectives the present study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of 4 weeks of endurance or strength exercise, with or without s...

forty eight 8-month-old male goats were divided into three groups. in each group, eight goats were feedrestricted for 45, 60 or 75 days, and eight goats served as the control. restricted groups were fed with a maintenance ration, and the control goats were fed with a ration supporting 50 g of daily weight gain. at the end of restriction period, the restricted goats were offered the same ration ...

background: menopause is associated with changes in body composition in postmenopausal women. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of tibolone and continuous combined hormone therapy (ht) on body composition in postmenopausal women. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial, 120 menopausal women were randomly selected and divided into three groups. of these, 40 women ...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary forage type and concentrate-to-forage ratio (CTFR) on CH4 emissions from dairy cows in China using the SF6 tracer method. Rumen fluid concentrations of NH4-N and VFA, rumen fluid pH, and daily milk yield were measured as well. The dietary regimens included: corn stalks (dry corn stalks after corn harvest) as the forage source at CTFR o...

Forty eight 8-month-old male goats were divided into three groups. In each group, eight goats were feedrestricted for 45, 60 or 75 days, and eight goats served as the control. Restricted groups were fed with a maintenance ration, and the control goats were fed with a ration supporting 50 g of daily weight gain. At the end of restriction period, the restricted goats were offered the same ration ...

fed a diet consisting of natural foodstuffs than when main tained on a semipurified ration. Whereas these comparative differences between stock rations and purified diets relative to tumor incidence have been evaluated in terms of carcinogenic compounds and spontaneously appearing tumors, to our knowledge this effect has never been assessed in regards to exposure to sublethal doses of total-bod...

In the early 1960s‚ Robert Netting described househ olds in the Kofyar hom eland in Nigeria and explained their size‚ composition ‚ and other characteristics as adju stments to agrarian ecology. Household changes attending movement to a frontier were analyzed in the same framework. By the 1980s‚ the econom ic ration ale for hom eland farming had all but disappeared ‚ and some villages seemed on...