BACKGROUND Maintenance of a good nutritional status is associated with prolonged survival in many chronic diseases. To date, the nutritional status of outpatients with immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) amyloidosis has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to obtain information regarding the nutritional status of AL amyloidosis outpatients and to investigate its prognostic ro...

The main objective of this study was to assess whether dental caries status was related to nutritional status in preschool urban Brazilian children aged 12-59 months. Dental and anthropometric examinations were conducted on 1,018 12-59-month-old children during the National Day of Children Vaccination. Dental caries prevalence and severity were measured using the decayed, missing or filled surf...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is frequent among older people and is associated with morbi-mortality. The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of a multifactorial and multidisciplinary intervention in the nutritional status among the elderly. METHODS Randomized, single-blind, parallel-group, clinical trial conducted from January 2009 to December 2010 in seven primary health care centers i...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition represents an important issue in older adults; unfortunately, there is lack of data concerning this topic in Lebanon. This paper aims to provide a description of nutritional status and its correlates in older adults living in long stay institutions situated in Beirut. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in three long stay institutions in Beirut in 2012. Th...

Early life adversity has known impacts on adult health and behavior, yet little is known about the gene-environment interactions (GEIs) that underlie these consequences. We used the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to show that chronic early nutritional adversity interacts with rover and sitter allelic variants of foraging (for) to affect adult exploratory behavior, a phenotype that is critica...

Nutritional sociology uses sociological theories and methods to study and influence food patterns, eating habits, and nutrition. Obesity and weight loss are important topics in nutritional sociology, and stigmatization of the obese is a long-standing interest. Most past sociological work has only described stigmatization, rather than developing ways to facilitate coping with it. A model for cop...

the diamondback moth, plutella xylostella (l.) is a serious and economically important pest of cruciferous crops worldwide. the nutritional indices of this pest on four host plants including two canola (slm046 and rgs003) and two cabbage cultivars (green-cornet and glob-master) were determined under laboratory conditions (25 ± 0.5 °c, 65 ± 5% rh and 16: 8 l: d h). the highest relative consumpti...

conclusions the findings suggest that low levels of leptin may be a contributory factor for malnutrition in hd patients. further studies are required to ascertain the significance of leptin levels in relation to nutritional factors in hemodialysis patients. patients and methods this analytical descriptive study included 45 hemodialysis patients and 40 healthy subjects. biochemical parameters an...

background and aims: nutrition has a determinant role in success of professional athletes and dietary supplements can play an important role for supplying the nutritional needs for them in some situations. consumption of dietary supplements (ds) was significantly increased in recent years. based on this fact, assessing the amount, purposes and type of the supplements are all as prior as the aff...

the cowpea seed beetle, callosobruchus maculatus (fab.) (coleoptera: chrysomelidae: bruchinae) is one of the major pests infesting stored pulses and is distributed worldwide. in this research, efficiency of plant extracts from eucalyptus globulus labill. and eucalyptus camaldulensis dehnh. were tested against the cowpea seed beetle for its antifeedant activity. several experiments were designed...