Background & Aims: Body image represents the attitude of the individual toward himself/herself, along with the feelings and thoughts that can change individuals’ behavior in various conditions and in the positive or negative direction. In neurotic perfectionism, extreme tendency to perfectionism, obsessive thoughts, impulses, or unwanted images can be observed that can damage women’s perception...

As before, the author has ably dealt with the nutritional aspect ol lieaitn and disea.se in all its important bearings, physical, physiological, pathological, experimental and economic. Many additions and changes have been made in some of the chapters, specially in tiie discussion ol some of the metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, gout and obesity, in accordance with the modern ideas on the s...

The book is divided into two parts : part I, ' Nutrition in health' and part II, ' Nutrition in disease'. Basic physiology and biochemical factors are discussed as they apply to body requirements, food substances and their utilization. There are many valuable tables. Such topics as the low-sodium regimen and the rice diet for the treatment of hypertension and management of malnutrition have bee...

This paper aims at briefly specifying an analytical approach for the understanding of diet and nutrition in Islam and its effects on the promotion of health within the society. The Qur’an and other Islamic literature on Hadiths (Traditions), Figh (Jurisprudence) and traditional medicine are studied. The specifications of the Islamic food, the significance of the use of a diet compatible with ...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of pre-pubertal plane of nutrition on the skeletal growth, lamb mortality, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) concentrations, quantity and quality of colostrum produced in ewe lambs. A total of 40 clinically health Kurdish female lambs (30±8.6 d and weighing 10.2±3.4 kg) were randomly allocated to one of two experimental diets in pre-wea...

conclusions given the results, improving skills, training and awareness is necessary for women and emphasis on modified diet is recommended as a non-medical option for prevention of breast cancer. results the mean scores of feeding type in the patients with and without breast cancer was 56.14 and 66.25, respectively. results obtained from data analysis showed that there was statistically signif...

Both diet and nutrition have been studied in relationship with breast cancer risk, as the great variation among different countries in breast cancer incidence could possibly be explained through the inflammatory and immune response, as well as antioxidant intake, among others. To date, no clear association with diet beyond overweight and weight gain has been found, except for alcohol consumptio...