The parents of 100 children with chronic asthma completed a standard questionnaire designed to determine the extent of deliberate addition and avoidance of items in their children's diets. Forty-seven percent of the parents had added or deleted substances from their child's diet because of the child's asthma or a combination of asthma and another condition. This was predominantly the avoidance ...

The objective was to identify the cost of meeting the Brazilian National Dietary Guidelines and analyze the impact on family budget. Data from the Brazilian Household Budget Survey for 2008 were used. Food purchases were recorded for seven days in 55,970 households. A subset of low-income families (≤ BRL 415.00 per capita/month and ≤ US$ 1.00 per capita/day) was used for the analysis. We estima...

BACKGROUND Dietary guidelines in France give quantitative recommendations for intake of meat, fish and dairy products whereas consumers are increasingly concerned by the environmental impacts associated with the production of these foods. This potentially leads to consumer dilemmas when purchasing food products. The present study aimed at investigating the sociodemographic profiles of individua...

We announce here the draft genome sequence of Lactobacillus fermentum NCDC 400, a potential probiotic strain isolated from a traditional Indian dairy product. The genome size of Lactobacillus fermentum NCDC 400 is 1.89 Mb, and the assembled sequence consists of 185 contigs joined into 138 scaffolds.

Not all parameters are trustworthy and practical to use as parameters to determine heat stress in dairy cattle. The temperature-humidity index (THI) is still the best, simplest and most practical index (parameter) for measurement of environmental warmth which cause heat stress in dairy cattle. It is practical, easy to determine and relatively trustworthy to use body temperature and respiratory ...

INTRODUCTION Calcium deficiency is considered a risk factor for the development of osteoporosis in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. Various dietary restrictions, including milk products are reported by these patients. OBJECTIVE To evaluate dairy product and dietary calcium intake by IBD patients. METHODS This cross-sectional study enrolled 65 outpatients with IBD recruited from on...

BACKGROUND Some observational studies have shown a beneficial effect of dairy consumption on blood pressure, especially in overweight and relatively young (<40 y) persons. However, no results from prospective studies conducted in a free-living population exist that show this association in middle-aged adults. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to assess whether total, low-fat, and who...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of dairy calcium consumption on weight loss and improvement in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes indicators among overweight diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was an ancillary study of a 6-month randomized clinical trial assessing the effect of three isocaloric diets in type 2 diabetic patients: 1) mixed glycemic index carbohydrate die...

We aimed to investigate the association between dairy product consumption and the risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in Korean adults. Data from 13,692 Korean adults aged ≥19 years from the KNHANES 2010-2013 were used. The study participants were divided into three groups according to the serving size of dairy products they consumed based on a single 24-h recall. About 58% of the Kor...