Habits, both good ones and bad ones, are pervasive in animal behavior. Important frameworks have been developed to understand habits through psychological and neurobiological studies. This work has given us a rich understanding of brain networks that promote habits, and has also helped us to understand what constitutes a habitual behavior as opposed to a behavior that is more flexible and prosp...

background: poisoning, a common worldwide problem, seeks its own treatments to improve, especially by the forthcoming evidence based medicine (ebm). charcoal/sorbitol slurry (css) administration is one of these methods with great debates around it which needs to be investigated more. methods: in this clinical trial, 105 cases of benzodiazepine toxicity with at least 3 symptoms and no contraindi...

Background: The aim of this study is to assess the relationships between familial types and dietary quality measured by Korean Healthy Eating Index (KHEI) in representative elderly.Methods: We used cross-sectional data from 4,260 elderly, aged over 65 years, who had participated 2016-2018 Korea National Health Nutrition Examination Survey. 14-item KHEI scores were calculated Food Frequency Ques...

Background: Malnutrition is still prevalent globally with the coexistence of both overnutrition and undernutrition in developing countries affecting people all ages. Adolescents are particularly at risk malnutrition due to rapid growth development changes dietary habit that influences their nutrient intake. Dietary other lifestyle behaviors formed during adolescence contribute adulthood behavio...

Background: Malnutrition is a major threat to the world's public health. While under-nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies persist, obesity increasing worldwide. Although malnutrition has been extensively researched among children, it become of concern adults because relative increase in prevalence diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
 Objectives: This study was conducted dete...

Tropical rainforests support the greatest diversity of small mammals in the world, yet we have little understanding about the mechanisms that promote the coexistence of species. Diet partitioning can favor coexistence by lessening competition, and interspecific differences in body size and habitat use are usually proposed to be associated with trophic divergence. However, the use of classic die...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of cigarette smoking on lipid peroxidation induced oxidative stress, antioxidants, uric acid and blood sugar in normal subjects. METHODS The study included 61 normal subjects with regular smoking habit and 57 never-smokers normal subjects matched in respect to socio-economic status, age and BMI. Information regarding smoking habit and other personal details wer...

BACKGROUND Dietary habits are established in childhood and will persist until adulthood, being one of the human health pillars. Many diseases of humans have roots in the individuals' diet, of which dental caries are one of the common infectious diseases. Diabetes Mellitus is also considered as the most common metabolic disorder in children. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare ...