Nutritional biomarkers--biochemical, functional, or clinical indices of nutrient intake, status, or functional effects--are needed to support evidence-based clinical guidance and effective health programs and policies related to food, nutrition, and health. Such indices can reveal information about biological or physiological responses to dietary behavior or pathogenic processes, and can be use...

T his book is the definitive " go-to " textbook for any practitioner who is interested in nutritional therapy. At almost 1400 pages and with more than 15 000 references, the book provides a practical and comprehensive overview of how to use diet and nutritional supplements for the prevention and treatment of more than 400 health conditions. Dr Gaby's goal was to offer healthcare practitioners a...

INTRODUCTION To make chiropractors more aware of menorrhagia and how they can serve a role in their patient's care and education since women make up 60% of the population seeking chiropractic care. METHOD A review of the biomedical literature on menorrhagia was conducted. Items that were retrieved were synthesized and interpreted in order to give the best information to practicing chiropracto...

Social media sites like Instagram have emerged as popular platforms for sharing ingestion and dining experiences. However research on characterizing the nutritional information embedded in such content is limited. In this paper, we develop a computational method to extract nutritional information, specifically calorific content from Instagram food posts. Next, we explore how the community react...

objectives: this study was designed to assess nutritional and biochemical factor of magnesium in postmenopausal osteoporotic women. methods & materials: the population of this analytical cross- sectional study, was 60 postmenopausal osteoporotic women ,referred to rheumateology clinic of tabriz. nutritional intake was determined by 3 day food recall and food frequency questionnaire، individual ...

nutrigenomics applies genomic technologies to study how nutrients affect expression of genes. with the advent of the post genomic era and with the use of functional genomic tools, the new strategies for evaluating the effects of nutrition on production efficiency and nutrient utilization are becoming available. nutrigenomics plays an efficient role in various fields of animal health like nutrit...

introduction: enhancing the nutritional condition of teenaged girls can be the most effective and fundamental preventive measure against chronic disease in years ahead. knowing the predictive factors of behaviors is one the most efficient way of preventive programs in societies, especially in the developing countries. this study was conducted to determine the role of self– efficacy in predictin...

background: in recent decades, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased in iran and other countries. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of obesity and its associated factors among high school students of karaj city, iran. methods: a total of 700 students in different age groups were selected by random sampling method. the study samples were divided into 2 gr...

conclusions the results of the current study suggest that increasing the quality of the diet calculated according to hei can reduce the risk of coming down with cataract. patients and methods this case-control study was conducted on 97 patients with cataract and 198 healthy people (as a control group) in iran. individuals were selected by the convenience sampling method and the food frequency q...