Contact urticaria to egg occurring in 3 year old boy with atopic eczema. Pictures were taken before (left) and 15 minutes after (right) application ofraw egg white to cheek. Reprinted with permission ofJ Brostoff, SI Challacombe, eds. Food Allergy and Intolerance. London: Bailliere Tindall, 1987:585 controlled studies. Sadly, data are only available from two such studies. The first was that of ...

Designing an optimal diet requires knowledge of the biological activity of food products, particularly in relation to people with food allergies. The hypothesis, which constitutes the basis of this thesis, states that the peptides and glycopeptides released from proteins by enzymatic hydrolysis are able to change the quantity and quality of the human gastrointestinal ecosystem. Such substrates ...

Soybean provides health benefits such as reducing cardiovascular disease, reducing menopausal symptoms, weight loss, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis and brain function. It contains phytochemicals such as isoflavones, saponins and phytosterols that promote health benefits. Soy food products are perceived as healthy food and are considered an important part of the diet. More than 50% consumers ...

It can be accepted as axiomatic at the present time that the basic food substance for the artificial feeding of healthy infants is cow’s milk. In the first place, therefore, attention must be directed towards a comparison between human breast milk and cow’s milk. Ideally, the substitute food should approximate to nature’s food as closely and as exactly as possible. Towards the end of the last c...

Background: Information concerning the adequacy of bone mineralization in children who customarily avoid drinking cow milk is sparse. Objective: The objective was to evaluate dietary calcium intakes, anthropometric measures, and bone health in prepubertal children with a history of long-term milk avoidance. Design: We recruited 50 milk avoiders (30 girls, 20 boys) aged 3–10 y by advertisement. ...

BACKGROUND Microbial milk-clotting enzymes are valued as calf rennet substitutes in the cheese industry. The worldwide increase of cheese production coupled with a reduced supply of calf rennet has prompted a search for calf rennet substitutes, including microbial and plant rennets. However, most plant rennets have proved unsuitable because they impart a bitter taste to the cheese. Microbial re...

BACKGROUND Information concerning the adequacy of bone mineralization in children who customarily avoid drinking cow milk is sparse. OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate dietary calcium intakes, anthropometric measures, and bone health in prepubertal children with a history of long-term milk avoidance. DESIGN We recruited 50 milk avoiders (30 girls, 20 boys) aged 3-10 y by advertisement....

Extrauterine growth restriction in preterm infants secondary to suboptimal nutrition is a major problem in neonatal intensive care units. Evidence is emerging that early growth deficits have long-term adverse effects, including short stature and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. The parenteral route of feeding is essential to maintain nutritional integrity before successful transition to the en...

1. The digestibility of the cell wall polysaccharides of an alkane-grown yeast in different parts of the digestive tract of two veal calves fitted with re-entrant cannulas at the end of the ileum was studied by replacing part of the skim-milk powder of their 'normal', milk-substitute (all-milk-protein) diet by yeast (yeast diet). 2. The lactose and glucose of both the all-milk-protein diet and ...

Breast milk is nature’s way of providing all nutritious those new born needs in the right amounts and proportions till the infant reaches 4-6 months of age. No other types of animal milk or milk formula can substitute for this breast milk. To assess the effectiveness of prenatal teaching programme on postnatal practice of breast care and breastfeeding on the first postnatal day and third postna...