OBJECTIVE To explore the hydration strategies of marathon runners, their sources of information and knowledge about fluid intake in the marathon, and their understanding of exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH). DESIGN Anonymized questionnaire. SETTING London Marathon. PARTICIPANTS Marathon race participants. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Responses regarding planned fluid consumption, volume t...

AIMS To study the influences of parental alcohol problems on adolescents' alcohol consumption and motivations to drink alcohol. METHODS A community sample of 1744 adolescents from schools in South Wales completed the 6-item Children of Alcoholics Screening Test, Drinking Motives Questionnaire, and survey measures of alcohol consumption. RESULTS Children of parents with alcohol problems cons...

Background: Urbanization and economic development in Myanmar have brought about culture dietary transition from a traditional to westernized diet. The health of the nation, especially youth, may influence changing patterns: i.e., higher soft drink consumption, prevalence drink-related diseases.

background : energy drink consumption has a direct relationship with high risk behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption. the aim of the present study was to investigate the pattern of energy drink consumption and its associated factors in college students. methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on students of isfahan university of medical sciences, iran, in the acad...

background: the aim of this prospective, randomized, single-blinded study was to compare the effects of a carbohydrate drink 400 ml given 2 h before the surgery with preoperative overnight fasting on the gastric ph and residual volume, postoperative nausea and vomiting (ponv) and antiemetic consumption in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. materials and methods: forty american so...

The ingestion of intact protein or essential amino acids (EAA) stimulates mechanistic target of rapamycin complex-1 (mTORC1) signaling and muscle protein synthesis (MPS) following resistance exercise. The purpose of this study was to investigate the response of myofibrillar-MPS to ingestion of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) only (i.e., without concurrent ingestion of other EAA, intact prote...

Cues associated with familiar alcoholic drinks such as beer may, through repeated association with the unconditioned stimulus properties of alcohol, acquire the status of classically conditioned stimuli. It has been proposed that such drug-related conditioned stimuli mediate drug tolerance. Thus, the aim of the present experiment was to test this proposition on cognitive, subjective, and psycho...

The presence of gastro-oesophageal reflux was investigated in 18 children with moderate to severe asthma by overnight oesophageal pH monitoring. Appreciable reflux was found during sleep in eight; its relevance to nocturnal asthma was not clear. On another occasion the same children were challenged in a double blind fashion with a drink of dilute hydrochloric acid (0.001 N) and the response of ...

The effects of the amino acid tyrosine on cognitive task performance were studied on a group of 21 cadets during a demanding military combat training course. In addition, the effects on mood, blood pressure and the norepinephrine metabolite MHPG were determined. Ten subjects received five daily doses of a protein-rich drink containing 2 g tyrosine, and 11 subjects received a carbohydrate rich d...