BACKGROUND Government and health organisations worldwide have recently reviewed the evidence on the role of dietary sugars in relation to health outcomes. Hence, it is timely to review current intakes of dietary sugars with respect to this guidance and as a benchmark for future surveillance. METHODS This review collates data from nationally representative dietary surveys across the world and ...

In the hot summer months of nineteenth-century colonial Australia, a quiet dread descended upon parents of the very young. Diarrhoea was about to assert its role as the greatest single threat to the lives of their infants.1 Between 1875 and 1900 Australian vital statistical records matched those of Europe, Britain and America,2 revealing a pattern in which infant diarrhoeal mortality accounted ...

glucose, as the major energy source in cellular metabolism, plays an important role in the natural growth of cells. herein, a simple, rapid and low-cost method for the glucose determination by utilizing glucose oxidase and cdte/thioglycolic acid (tga) quantum dots (qds) on a thin layer chromatography (tlc) plate has been described. the detection was based on the combination of the glucose enzym...

objective(s) the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of ramadan fasting and weight-lifting training on plasma volume, glucose, and lipids profile of male weight-lifter. materials and methods forty male weight-lifters were recruited and divided into 4 groups (n=10 each) and as the following groups: control (c), fasting (f), training (t) and fasting-training (f-t). the t and f...