OBJECTIVE To assess the potential contribution of foods fortified with folic acid (FA) to target population intakes when included as part of a healthy breakfast. DESIGN Breakfast models aligned with the Spanish Dietary Guidelines were studied using the recommended, average and 95th percentile of serving sizes consumed by women of childbearing age. Food composition data were obtained from a da...

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There are many avenues to studying or recommending economic policy. Most common in public debates is an approach, where someone offers some amazingly precise policy conclusion (‘‘the age of mandatory retirement should be 67’’) based on an equally amazingly vague or secondary policy objective (‘‘financial viability of the pension system in the long run’’). Similar examples abound in monetary pol...

The purpose of the current study was to determine whether a tropical ginger derived compound 1'-acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA), suppresses skin tumor promotion in K5.Stat3C mice. In a two-week study in which wild-type (WT) and K5.Stat3C mice were co-treated with either vehicle, ACA, galanga extract, or fluocinolone acetonide (FA) and tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate (TPA), only the galanga extract ...

PURPOSE We investigated the efficacy and safety of a combination of oxaliplatin, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), and folinic acid (FA) as first-line palliative chemotherapy for elderly patients with metastatic or recurrent gastric cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study patients were chemotherapy-naïve patients (> 65 years old) with histologically confirmed, metastatic or recurrent gastric cancer. Che...