Purpose: To investigate diet, physical activity, and bone mineral density (BMD) in combat service support Soldiers before and after deployment, and to determine if any components of diet or physical activity impacted BMD. Design: Fifty-three Soldiers participated in the study. The BMD of the femoral neck and lumbar spine were measured using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. Diet was assessed us...

THE subject of diet, atherosclerosis, and coronary heart disease was covered by Ancel Keys" at the Conference on Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease held on January i5, I97, and sponsored by the New York Heart Association. Among the major conclusions from Dr. Keys' epidemiologic studies of more than a decade ago were the following: i) There were very great differences between populations...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the influence of habitual participation in physical exercise and diet on upper-extremity physical function in older adults. To assess the relationship of general physical exercise and diet to upper-extremity physical function and pain intensity in older adults. METHODS A cohort of 111 patients 50 or older completed a sociodemographic survey, the Rapid Assessme...

During the past century, the evidence for the risks imposed on human health by excess salt consumption was compelling. The causal relation between habitual dietary salt intake and blood pressure has been established through experimental, epidemiological, migration, and intervention studies. The aim of the work was to select from persons having normal arterial pressure the salt sensitive ones an...

many patients with thyrotoxicosis develop hypercalciuria and nypercalcemia. urine calcium excretion depends on diet, latitude and sunshine exposure. with regard to variation of these indices in different geographical regions, we conducted a one-year study on 202 patients, 65 males and 137 females, with thyrotoxicosis of varying severity. the mean age of patients was 35.24±11.95 and 35.87±12.21 ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate in type 1 diabetic patients 1) the long-term feasibility of a high-fiber (HF) diet composed exclusively of natural foodstuffs and 2) the efficacy of this diet in relation to blood glucose control and incidence of hypoglycemic episodes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The study was randomized with parallel groups. Participants were part of a larger multicenter study on the ef...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the current study was to examine the cognitive processes that make it possible to use intentions to change one's habitual health-related behaviour. DESIGN The study used an idiosyncratic approach to investigate personal existing habits and non-habitual behaviours in a within-participants experiment. METHOD Participants first generated habitual and non-habitual beh...

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of a high protein diet over a one-year period. Fourteen healthy resistance-trained men completed the study (mean ± SD; age 26.3 ± 3.9 yr; height 178.5 ± 8.4 cm; and average years of training 8.9 ± 3.4 yr). In a randomized crossover design, subjects consumed their habitual or normal diet for 2 months and 4 months and alternated that ...

This is the first published report examining the combined effect of diet and genotype on body iron content using a classical twin study design. The aim of this study was to determine the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors in determining iron status. The population was comprised of 200 BMI- and age-matched pairs of MZ and DZ healthy twins, characterised for habitual diet ...

BACKGROUND Very limited data suggest that meat consumption by older people may promote skeletal muscle hypertrophy in response to resistance training (RT). OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess whether the consumption of an omnivorous (meat-containing) diet would influence RT-induced changes in whole-body composition and skeletal muscle size in older men compared with a lactoovo...