The authors conducted a matched case-control study to investigate the effects of caffeine intake during pregnancy on birth weight. From January to November 1992, in the first 24 hours after delivery, 1,205 mothers (401 cases and 804 controls) were interviewed and their newborns were examined to assess birth weight and gestational age by means of the method of Capurro et al. (J Pediatr 1978;93:1...

Ten groups of 10 growing male rats (65 g) were fed ad libitum either a control diet or rapeseed diets (15 mM glucosinolates/kg DM) supplemented either with l- alone, l- and Cu++ (2 levels), l- + Cu++ and methionine or l- and Fe++ (2 levels) (table 1) for 35 days. When the rapeseed diets were given as powder or as mash, food intake decreased 24 and 32%, respectively; live weight gain was reduced...

Objectives The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, participation, preliminary efficacy and retention in a couples-based weight loss intervention among Black men. Design setting participants Two-arm pilot randomized clinical trial in an academic clinical setting. Forty self-identified Black men and their female cohabitating partners (n = 80) aged 18 to 65 years with body ma...

After publication of this article [1], we noted errors to the " body weight " row of Table three. The values for the controls of Δ 1 (wk 0 ~ wk 4) and Δ 2 (wk 0 ~ wk 8) should be negative (please see Table 1 below, a corrected version of Table three). Reference 1. Zhu W, et al: Calcium plus vitamin D3 supplementation facilitated fat loss in overweight and obese college students with very-low ca...

We are what we eat. Our everyday food choices affect our long-term and short-term health. In the traditional health care, the professionals assess and weigh each individual’s dietary intake with intensive labor cost. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a dietary-aware dining table that can track what and how much we eat. To enable automated food tracking, the dining table is augment...

Obesity is increasingly common among pregnant women, and it can cause significant risk to mother and fetus. Because they care for women throughout the reproductive cycle, family physicians can help improve outcomes in pregnancies complicated by obesity. Family physicians who provide prenatal care should also be familiar with recommendations for the management of obesity in pregnancy. Women with...

On 26–28 April 2013, the American Diabetes Association convened an international group of experts in Washington, DC, for a research symposium titled “Biologic Responses to Weight Loss and Weight Regain.” The speakers addressed the following topics: 1) developmental processes and the prevention of weight gain, 2) behavioral management approaches to weight loss, 3) distinctions between the physio...

In 2006, Smith et al. published a new table of constant weight codes, updating existing tables originally created by Brouwer et al. This paper improves upon these results by filling in 9 missing constant weight codes, all of which are optimal by the second Johnson bound. This completes the tables for A(n, 16, 9) and A(n, 18, 10) up to n = 63 and corrects some A(n, 14, 8).