Objective: some previous works have shown the importance of zinc in nutrition, and even evaluated different zinc sources for food supplementation with this micronutrient. The aim of this work was to evaluate zinc gluconate stabilized with glycine (BZ) as a zinc source for food fortification by employing yogurt as the vehicle and zinc sulfate (SZ) as the standard zinc source. Materials and metho...

In a representative sample of 895 schoolchildren, aged between 9 years 10 months and 11 years 2 months, the risk of being overweight or obese was compared between those who had gained weight rapidly during infancy and those whose weight gain had been normal. A substantially increased risk ratio was found only in boys for whom a correlation analysis showed that the total weight gain during the f...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Our aim was to investigate prospectively the association between two major cardiovascular risk factors: smoking and weight gain. METHODS We prospectively evaluated 7565 individuals taking part in a dynamic cohort study over a median follow-up period of 50 months. Self-reported weight and physical activity levels had been validated previously. The adjusted mean diff...

to compare the effects of two herbal extracts, antibiotic, probiotic, and ethanol extract of propolis on performance, relative weight of internal organs, carcass characteristics and morphology of the small intestine of broilers challenged with salmonella enteritidis a trial was performed based on completely randomized design. four hundred and twenty day old male broiler chicks including 7 treat...

The effects of feeding diets containing Salbutamol (0, 1, 3, 5 and 7 mg/kg diet) from 21 to 49 days of ageon growth performance and carcass characteristics in 180 male and 180 female Japanese quails (Coturnixjaponica) were studied using a factorial arrangement based on completely randomized design. Gender hadsignificant effect on weight gain (Pwere not statistically significant (P>0.05). Salbut...