Background: Achieving nutritional goals of infants and young children while maintaining the intake of local and culture-specific foods can be a daunting task. Diet optimisation using linear goal programming (LP) can effectively generate optimal formulations incorporating local and culturally acceptable foods. Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether a realistic an...

Bioerosions produced by the osteophagous diet of animals that fed on dinosaur bones are very scarce in European fossil record. Herein we present bioerosion hadrosaurid remains from Maastrichtian Tremp Formation Pyrenean Basin, which is only second such case recorded Iberian-Occitan Plate besides a sauropod Jurassic-Cretaceous Valencia. The record particularly rich Blasi sites located municipali...

The 1980s heralded an increased consciousness of the potential relationships between diet, lifestyles and health. Northern Ireland had a poor health record, having one of the highest death rates from ischaemic heart disease in the world, and there was a paucity of information on the lifestyle and dietary characteristics of its population. In contrast Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland ha...

Background: Endometriosis has a significant impact on women's quality of life. The aim of this study by reviewing the literature is to discover the impact of diet on endometriosis. Materials and Methods: Searching databases was Cochrane, Pub-med, library studies, and research website of leading researchers in the world from 2002 to early 2012. Results: The literature search shows that cert...

In this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, Kristal et al (1) report on analyses of several standardized questions about health behaviors related to sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and other aspects of diet and physical activity in a Bronx population served by several federally qualified health centers. These analyses are part of a larger project that links clinical and community approach...

This study evaluated the reliability and validity of a Belgian computerized questionnaire to measure at intake. A total of 86 adults completed a 48-item computerized fat intake questionnaire, subseuently kept a 7-day diet record, and finally completed the questionnaire again. For validity, a Pearson orrelation of 0.67 for total fat intake and of 0.60 for percent energy from fat were found betwe...

In 1986, a prospective cohort study on diet and cancer was started in The Netherlands. The cohort (n = 120, 852) of 55-69 year old men (48.2%) and women (51.8%) originates from 204 computerized municipal population registries. At baseline, participants completed a self-administered questionnaire on diet and potential confounding variables. In addition, about 67% of the participants provided toe...

The earliest record of plant visiting in bats dates to the Middle Miocene of La Venta, the world's most diverse tropical palaeocommunity. Palynephyllum antimaster is known from molars that indicate nectarivory. Skull length, an important indicator of key traits such as body size, bite force and trophic specialization, remains unknown. We developed Bayesian models to infer skull length based on ...