OBJECTIVE We sought to document increases in caloric contributions from sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice among US youth during 1988-2004. PATIENTS AND METHODS We analyzed 24-hour dietary recalls from children and adolescents (aged 2-19) in 2 nationally representative population surveys: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (1988-1994, N = 9882) and National Healt...

Africa can stir wild and fanciful notions in the casual visitor; one of these is the tale of inebriated wild elephants. The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is an attractive, established, and persistent tale. This idea now permeates the African tourist industry, historical travelogues, the...

INTRODUCTION Children have an increased risk of voluntary dehydration especially during physical activity which may increase the risk of non-compensating water losses. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the hydration status and its relation to food intake in a children group of soccer players. METHOD A sample of 36 boys aged 9-10 years was included in this study; 30 completed a ...

OBJECTIVE To compare commonly used dietary screeners for fat intake and fruit and vegetable intake with 24 h dietary recalls among low-income, overweight and obese African-American women. DESIGN Three telephone interviews were completed; measures included two 24 h dietary recalls (a weekday and weekend day) using the Nutrition Data System for Research software, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surv...

When harvesting Lycium barbarum L., excess amounts of detachments the half-ripe fruit, unripe flowers, and leaves significantly affect yield adversely subsequent processing, such as drying grading. Finite element method (FEM) simulations experiments were performed to harvest more ripe fruit less leaves. Three-dimensional (3D) models leaves, calyxes (flower calyx), stems stem), branches construc...

UV light provoked stress can evoke antioxidant defence system and consequently induces the synthesis of several phytochemical compounds. Th e aim of the present study was to investigate the infl uence of UV-B light irradiation on surface colour and synthesis of some bioactive compounds in apples skin of cultivars ‘Elstar’ and ‘Jonagold’. Half of each apple was shaded with aluminium foil to comp...

Eulemur fulvus rufus has been described as having stable multi-male/multi-female groups, a male-biased sex ratio, and female philopatry. However, in a 16-year study of this subspecies we documented a great deal of demographic change as several groups permanently fissioned, some groups disappeared, and new groups formed. We split the dataset into two periods, 1988 to 1993 and 1994 to 2003, which...

California’s fruit and nut tree crops represent one-third of the state’s cash farm receipts and 70% of U.S. fruit and nut production. Advances in crop biotechnology and genetic engineering could help protect these valuable crops from pests and diseases and improve productivity. However, due to the difficulty of genetically engineering woody tree crops, as well as intellectual property concerns,...

Retrieving category associates (e.g., FRUIT-ORANGE) may induce forgetting other category members (e.g., FRUIT-BANANA), a phenomenon known as retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF). We designed 2 experiments to examine the role of RIF in the associative memory impairment of schizophrenia (SZ). Subjects studied 36 category-exemplar pairs, generated from 6 categories composed of 6 members each. For ha...