The objective of this study was to examine the dietary intake profiles of first-time parents, second-time parents, and couples without children; once during pregnancy, then at 6- and 12-months postpartum. This was an observational, longitudinal, cohort study. Participants were a community-based sample of 153 couples aged 25 to 40 years. Data were collected between 2007 and 2011. Dietary intake ...

INTRODUCTION Association between sugar sweetened beverages consumption and several metabolic diseases has been observed. AIM To analyze randomized studies among ≤ 16 yo children of ≥ 52 weeks of intervention assessing the effect of the reduction of sugar sweetened beverages, carbonated drinks, flavored drinks, and fruit juices on adiposity indicators. METHODS Medline was searched for random...

—Fruit preference by birds is a complex process based upon the morphology and spatial arrangement of fruits and on the physiological needs and capabilities of birds. In North America, most fruits can be divided into two groups based on nutritional content: those rich in sugars relative to lipids, and those rich in lipids relative to sugars. To investigate how fruit preference may change seasona...

to investigate the effect of k fertilizer on yield and yield components of three watermelon cultivars, a two-year study (2007-2008) was conducted in ardestan agricultural research center (isfahan province) by using of split plot randomized based on complete block design in three replications. three watermelon cultivars (‘sugar baby’, ‘charleston grey’ and ‘mahbubi’), were assigned as main plots...

S5 File. Supporting Tables. Table A. The expression profiles of all expressed genes in developing fruit of A. chinensis cv. 'Hongyang'. Table B. List of novel transcripts, alternative splicing and genes extended identified through analysis of the 'Hongyang' transcriptome. Table C. Verification of RNA-seq results by qPCR in A. chinensis cv. 'Hongyang'. Table D. Differentially expressed genes bet...

Give us our daily protein Protein is an essential component of our food, and protein intake thus must be actively regulated. Liu et al. identified a neural circuit that encodes protein-specific hunger in fruit flies. In protein-deprived animals, this circuit acted to simultaneously promote protein consumption and restrict sugar intake. Lack of protein induced changes in the protein-specific, bu...

In Estonia, the sea buckthorn is a non-traditional fruit crop. From 2001 to 2003, at the Rõhu Testing Center of the Estonian Agricultural Research Center in Southern Estonia, six sea buckthorn cultivars were evaluated in terms of their yield and average fruit weight: ‘Trofimovskaya’, ‘Vorobyevskaya’, ‘Avgustinka’, ‘Otradnaya’, ‘Botanicheskaya Ljubitelskaya’, and ‘Botanicheskaya’. Chemical compo...