Correspondence: Pedro Carrera-Bastos R. Gorgel do Amaral, No. 5, 1 e; Lisbon 1250-119, Portugal Tel +351 967 088 799 email [email protected] Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that certain fundamental changes in diet and lifestyle that occurred after the Neolithic Revolution, and especially after the Industrial Revolution and the Modern Age, are too recent, on an evolutionary ...

We evaluated cigarette smoking as a risk factor for prostate cancer in a prospective, population-based cohort study. The subjects were 14,450 males among the participants in the Seoul Male Cancer Cohort Study who had at least 1-year follow-up. They were followed up between 1993 and 2008. During the 16-year follow-up period, 87 cases of prostate cancer occurred over the 207,326 person-years of t...

This paper conducts a content analysis of a total of 480 advertisements from three popular Chinese women’s magazines—Rayli, Fashion Cosmo, and Bazaar—to assess the Consumer Cultural Positioning (CCP) of the ads. The results show that Global CCP is more commonly utilized for brand positioning strategies than Foreign CCP or Local CCP. Five elements of the advertisements—the language used for bran...

Vitamin D is a sunshine vitamin and is key player in Bone diseases (like Osteoporosis,Osteoarthritis,Rheumatoid Arthritis),Autoimmune diseases,Chronic diseases like Diabetes Mellitus,Hypertension,CardiovascularDiseases,Metabolic Syndromes and Cystic fibrosis Calcium,Magnesium and Phosphorus are the key ions whose interplay is closely linked to each other in positive bone metabolism and Vitamin ...

Background: Autopsies of Egyptian and Chinese mummies have demonstrated the existence of gallstones for at least 3,500 years. Today, gallstones occur commonly, especially in the West and in westernized societies. Gallstone complications include biliary colic, acute cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, cholangitis, gallstone pancreatitis, and gallstone ileus. Gallstone disease exacts a considerab...

Allergic diseases among children and youth are today one of the most common chronicle diseases in westernized countries, and the prevalence has increased dramatically during the last decades. The great increase in allergy prevalence is commonly explained by the hygiene hypothesis, postulating that a clean lifestyle increases the risk of developing allergy, and that exposure to microbes early in...

Most of the Human diseases affecting westernized countries are associated with dysbiosis and loss of microbial diversity in the gut microbiota. The Western way of life, with a wide use of antibiotics and other environmental triggers, may reduce the number of bacterial predators leading to a decrease in microbial diversity of the Human gut. We argue that this phenomenon is similar to the process...

Obesity is a growing health problem that many countries face, mostly due to the consumption of a Westernized diet. In this present study we observed the effects of a soybean extract fermented by Bacillus subtilis MORI (BTD-1) containing 1-deoxynojirimycin against high fat diet-induced obesity. The results obtained from this study indicated that BTD-1 reduced body weight, regulated hepatic lipid...

CONTEXT A dearth of data concerning eating problems among adult women from diverse cultural origins leaves substantial knowledge gaps and constrains evidence-based interventions. OBJECTIVE To examine prevalence and predictors of disordered eating behaviors (DEB) among adult Jewish women (21+) from distinct cultural origins. DESIGN Community-based study includes 175 Israelis born to parents ...

Along with the rapid economic development and living standard improvement in China during the past decades, Chinese population has longer life expectancy than before [1]. However, great changes in lifestyle and eating habits have also happened among the Chinese population at the same time [2]. For examples, people are more prone to lead a sedentary life and eat westernized food (such as hamburg...