Mice deficient in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) develop mature-onset obesity, primarily due to overeating. To gain insight into the mechanism of this hyperphagia, we characterized food intake, body weight, meal pattern, and meal microstructure in young and mature mice fed balanced or high-fat diets. Hyperphagia and obesity occurred in mature but not young BDNF mutants fed a balanced ...

Background: Although consumption of three or less than three meals per day (gorging regimen) is usual in some communities, in western population there is an inclination towards many small meals a day (nibbling regimen). Up to now the effects of meal frequency on serum immunoglobulins have not been investigated in laboratory animals. There is also some controversy information about the effect of...

Food frequency questionnaire is an important assessment tool for public health nutrition research. We describe the development history and conducted the validity and reproducibility studies for a meal-based Chinese food frequency questionnaire (Chinese FFQ) by five meal sequences. A total of 51 subjects were recruited to collect dietary information twice (6 months apart) with one 24-hr recall, ...

OBJECTIVE To compare a modified fixed meal dosing strategy to flexible meal dosing in hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Patients (N = 126) with refractory hyperglycemia or requiring at least 20 units of insulin per day were randomly assigned to fixed meal dosing (including withholding the dose if less than half of the meal tray was consumed) or flexible m...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of protease supplementation on behaviour, slaughter performance, meat quality, and immune organ indices broilers. A total 240 one-day-old Arbor Acres broiler chickens were randomly allocated four treatments, with six replicates per treatment 10 broilers replicate. Chickens fed corn-soybean meal basal diets supplemented 0, 4, 8, 12 IU/g p...

Control of food intake and meal patterns in monkeys. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 27(5) 803-810, 1981.-Feeding patterns have been studied in 10 adult male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) adapted to primate restraint chairs for physiological studies. Using an automated computer-monitored liquid diet feeding system, feeding behavior was studied under 8 hour and 24 hour feeding schedules. Caiorie/kg intake was...

OBJECTIVE To examine the range and frequency of parental mealtime strategies used during the family meal session of Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for adolescent anorexia nervosa, and to explore the relationships between parental mealtime strategies, mealtime emotional tone and parental 'success' at encouraging adolescent food consumption. METHOD Participants were 21 families with a child aged ...

In 2003 the Department of Health of South Africa embarked on a mandatory fortification programme of maize meal as part of a nutrition program to alleviate malnutrition. The aim of this study was to determine the vitamin A content in fortified white maize meal and the maize porridge prepared with it as purchased and consumed. The highest mean vitamin A concentration in the maize meal was 261 μgR...