OBJECTIVES National dietary guidelines were introduced in 1977 and 1983, by the USA and UK governments, respectively, with the ambition of reducing coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality by reducing dietary fat intake. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis by the present authors, examining the randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence available to the dietary committees during those tim...

background the malaysian health and morbidity survey (2006) reported the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) among the indian population compared to the malay and chinese populations. many studies have supported the important role of adiponectin in insulin-sensitizing, which is associated with t2dm. these studies have raised a research question whether the variation in prevale...

Following the intestinal absorption of dietary benzo[a]pyrene (BP) by the killifish, this compound becomes incorporated along with dietary triglycerides into membrane-bound fat vacuoles within the intestinal epithelial cell (1985. J. Lipid Res. 26: 428-434). These vacuoles, arising from the smooth endoplasmic reticulum, are important transient structures involved in both the uptake and metaboli...

A diet low in fat and rich in fibre has been recommended to optimize general health and in particular cardiovascular health. Health attitudes to fat and fibre were studied in relation to food and nutrient intake and sociocultural and lifestyle factors amongst the general population of Northern Ireland. The study population comprised 592 adults aged 16-64 years; health attitudes to fat and fibre...

Nutrition or dietary influences readily alter fat concentration and milk protein concentration. Fat concentration is the most sensitive to dietary changes and can vary over a range of nearly 3.0 percentage units. Dietary manipulation results in milk protein concentration changing approximately 0.60 percentage units. The concentrations of lactose and minerals, the other solids constituents of mi...

abstract background: dietary pattern is an effective way of studying the effect of diet on diseases. we investigated the association between dietary patterns and blood pressure (bp) in adults aged 20-50 years. methods: in a cross-sectional design, 418 individuals were selected through stratified multistage random sampling from households living in different regions of shiraz. information on dem...

the present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of vegetable fat sources and additives on performance and morphological parameters of the small intestine of arain broiler chickens. birds were randomly used in a 2×3 factorial arrangement of dietary treatments included two fat sources (canola or pumpkin seed) and three additives (without additive, 0.1 g/kg probiotic and 0.15 g/kg virgin...