Labeling a food as “organic” entails a claim about its production but is silent on its calorie content. Nevertheless, people infer that organic cookies are lower in calories and can be eaten more often than conventional cookies (Study 1). These inferences are observed even when the nutrition label conveys identical calorie content and are more pronounced among perceivers high on pro-environment...

Cold-water corals (CWC) are frequently reported from deep sites with locally accelerated currents that enhance seabed food particle supply. Moreover, zooplankton likely account for ecologically important prey items, but their contribution to CWC diet remains unquantified. We investigated the benthic food web structure of the recently discovered Santa Maria di Leuca (SML) CWC province (300 to 11...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to verify the effects of Italian Mediterranean Diet (IMD), consisting of organic versus conventional foods, on body composition, and biochemical parameters in a healthy individuals and in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients, in order to decrease cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factor and the progression of renal diseases. DESIGN After providing a writt...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of canola bioactive peptides (CBP) produced by enzymatic hydrolysis of canola meal on performance, digestive enzyme activity, nutrient digestibility, gut microflora and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens. A total of 250 one-day-old Ross 308 male broiler chicks were randomly allocated to 5 dietary treatments with 5 replicates of 10 ...

objective: finding a suitable laboratory test that can diagnose schizophrenia in its early stages could be very important. according to the hypothesis of lack of noradrenalin balance in the brain, it is illustrated that the disorder severity has a negative correlation with the amount of urine noradrenalin metabolite [3-methoxy-4-hydroxy phenyl glycol (mhpg) sulfate]. in this research, instead o...

In a 148-d feedlot experiment, 48 crossbred steers were fed a 70% sorghum diet with clinoptilolite (CLN), a natural zeolite, substituted at 0, 1.25 and 2.5% of the diet dry matter. No differences (P>.05) were detected in average daily gain, feed intake (dry matter and organic matter) and feed efficiency among treatments. Negative correlations (P<.05) between fecal starch and fecal pH were detec...

This study compared organically reared chickens with conventionally reared ones with regard to fatty acid composition traits. The conventional and organic flocks with an average age of 40 days were raised in an indoor pen. Stocking densities of conventional and organic ones were 0.05 and 0.13 m/bird, respectively. The conventional diet was formulated with common ingredients whereas the organic ...

The organic food market is considerably expanding all over the world, and the related dairy market represents its third most important sector. The reason lies in the fact that consumers tend to associate organic dairy products with positive perceptions: organic milk is ecoand animal-friendly, is not produced with antibiotics or hormones, and according to general opinion, provides additional nut...