To begin with, the importance of the prediction of the nutritive value and intake of feeds for the ruminant animals is stressed. The prediction is mainly correlated to digestibility, NDF content and lignin content. Then the most important chemical methods, enzymatic methods and biological methods (in vitro, in vivo, in sacco) which can be used as predictors, are reviewed and commented. It is co...

To assess the effects of 2 high intensity sodium saccharine-based sweeteners on individual feed intake characteristics and performance of group-housed weaned pigs, one hundred ninety-eight 26-d-old weanling pigs were given ad libitum access to 3 dietary treatments containing: no additional sweetener (control), 150 mg of sweetener (Sucram C-150)/kg, or 150 mg of sweetener (Sucram 3D)/kg. At wean...

Thumb and digit-sucking habits or non-nutritive sucking are considered to be the most prevalent among oral habits. Most children stop thumb sucking on their own. If the habit continues beyond 3 to 4 years of age, it not only affects the dental occlusion, but the shape of the thumb/digit may be altered as well. This article presents the management of thumb sucking by modified RURS, elbow guard i...

Objective. To evaluate parental attitudes toward providing foods and beverages with nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS) to their children and to explore parental ability to recognize NNS in packaged foods and beverages. Methods. 120 parents of children ≥ 1 and ≤18 years of age completed brief questionnaires upon entering or exiting a grocery store. Parental attitudes toward NNS were assessed using an...

Recent results from both human epidemiological and experimental studies with animals suggest that intake of noncaloric sweeteners may promote, rather than protect against, weight gain and other disturbances of energy regulation. However, without a viable mechanism to explain how consumption of noncaloric sweeteners can increase energy intake and body weight, the persuasiveness of such results h...

the nutritive and anti-nutritive components of raw detarium microcarpum seed meals (dsm), and its’ impact on performance and blood constituents were investigated in broilers. day-old broilers (n=225) were randomly assigned to five treatments at graded levels of 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% dsm in a completely randomized design. feed and water were given ad libitum till56 days. the analyzed dsm containe...

A rapid biosensor for the detection of bacterial growth was developed using micromechanical oscillators coated by common nutritive layers. The change in resonance frequency as a function of the increasing mass on a cantilever array forms the basis of the detection scheme. The sensor is able to detect active growth of Escherichia coli cells within 1 h which is significantly faster than any conve...

stress to K1 at rest. Finally, the first-pass studies used by Jerosch-Herold’s team have yielded impressive results when compared with coronary flow reserve measurements using Doppler wires (2). In truth, the best comparison would be to compare the nutritive perfusion measurements obtained with positron emission tomography (PET), because coronary flow reserve and regional nutritive perfusion ca...