PURPOSE OF REVIEW Dietary therapies for seizure management date back further than pharmacologic interventions, but many neurologists are not familiar with these treatment options. This introduction to dietary therapies will discuss administration of ketogenic diets, comparisons between diet types, evidence-based efficacy of diet therapies in epilepsy treatment, and management of side effects. T...

Introduction: Obesity is a worldwide health concern, which has been on an alarming trend in Jordan. Obesity leads to several chronic disorders and adversely affects the figure. Furthermore, it is considered to be a severe health threat during adolescence and early adulthood. People in Jordan tend to consume the foods that are rapidly prepared, and such dietary habits are referr...

BACKGROUND The relationship between diet and cardiovascular risk factors in men and women with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) has been the subject of recent studies. We studied a group of Iranian CAD patients to analyze any relationship between diet and CAD risk factors based on gender. METHODS In this study, 461 consecutive patients were assessed before their planned isolated coronary artery ...

A synthetic laboratory population of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), was used to test the F2 screen developed for detecting the frequency of rare resistance alleles to Cry1Ac and Cry1C toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). Of the 120 single-pair matings set up, 106 produced enough F2 families for screening of Cry1Ac or Cry1C resistance alleles using both transgenic broccoli and...

(1) Background: The aim of the research was to expand current knowledge about diets female university students in relation frequency their sports activity (SA). We were specifically interested eating frequency, distribution amount food during day, including breakfast diet, and timing dinner before bedtime. (2) Methods: sample this cross-sectional consisted 1055 freshmen from two universities ea...

OBJECTIVES The low-sodium diet is a known preventive factor for hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Factors associated with low-sodium diets should be identified to reduce sodium intake effectively. This study was conducted to identify factors correlated with a low-sodium diet. METHODS This cross-sectional study analyzed data from a total of 14,539 Koreans aged 20 years or older, who par...

introduction:myocardial 18f-fdg uptake is highly variable in oncologic whole body 18f-fdg pet/ct studies, ranging from quite intense to minimal distribution. intense or heterogeneous myocardial 18f-fdg uptake is undesirable as it may interfere with the visual or quantitative evaluation of tumoral invasion and metastases in pericardium, myocardium or adjacent mediastinal structures. the diet, as...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to assess complementary feeding practices and identify the potential risk factors associated with inappropriate complementary feeding in Indonesia for a nationally representative sample of births from 2004 to 2007. DESIGN The data source for the analysis was the 2007 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey. Multiple logistic regression was performed to analys...