Background Obesity is a risk factor for nephrolithiasis (NL). According to an American study of a large cohort with a BMI >30, males increased the risk of NL of 30% and females of 200%. Moreover, diet plays an important role as NL risk factor, mainly in those western countries characterized by a large meet consume. This epidemiology study investigated the NL frequency in an obese Italian popula...

The ketogenic diet is often effective for intractable epilepsy, but many patients have trouble complying with the strict regimen. The authors tested an alternative diet regimen, a low-glycemic-index treatment, with more liberal total carbohydrate intake but restricted to foods that produce relatively little increase in blood glucose (glycemic index < 50). Ten of 20 patients treated with this re...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the change in atonic or myoclonic seizures associated with the Lénnox-Gastaut syndrome during the initiation of the ketogenic diet, and to describe the development of a blinded crossover study of the efficacy of the ketogenic diet. DESIGN A before-after trial. SETTING The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. PATIENTS Change in clinical seizure frequency was examin...

Vitamin deficiency causes various neuropathic problems including encephalopathy, myelopathy, neuropathy, and myopathy [1]. Underlying diseases include chronic chylopoietic disease represented by chronic inflammatory intestinal disease (inflammatory bowel disease; IBD), malabsorption after abdominal surgery, and alcohol poisoning. In Japan, Europe, America, and other developed countries, there i...

OBJECTIVES Although attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been related to nutrient deficiencies and "unhealthy" diets, to date there are no studies that examined the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and ADHD. We hypothesized that a low adherence to a Mediterranean diet would be positively associated with an increase in ADHD diagnosis. METHODS A total of 120 children a...

background and aim: it has been several decades since the technology of frequency lowering (fl) has been proposed. however, primary research has revealed no benefits regarding the use of this technique. currently, new methods for fl and improvement of perception of speech and fricative sounds have led to the application of these methods by numerous companies to produce hearing aids. in this stu...

1. Twelve young men were given for periods of 20 d, each of three mixed diets, namely a low-protein (LP) diet (9% total energy as protein, 67% of animal origin), a high-animal-protein (HA) diet (16% total energy as protein, 67% of animal origin) and a high-vegetable-protein (HV) diet (16% total energy as protein, 67% of vegetable origin). Retention of calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and copper a...

The quality of life children with type I diabetes and lifestyle depend lamentably on the level glucose, frequency, mode administration insulin, peculiarities diet. To a large extent, methods subcutaneous injection, but also insulin by pump are determined therapy, dose administered, body’s response, motor skills, etc.

When compared with laboratory chow, a defined, semipurified diet prevented diabetes, reduced the frequency of insulitis, increased thymus weight and total white blood cell count, and doubled thymus T-helper/T-suppressor cell ratios in diabetes-prone BB rats. These data show that the diabetic syndrome in BB rats may be prevented or delayed by changes in diet, which may occur through alteration o...

Objective Infertility is one of the most common challenges that women of reproductive age would encounter today. The maternal nutritional status is a particularly important determinant of oocyte quality and embryonic growth. Studies on whether the overall diet can affect reproductive outcomes in infertile women are few. So this study was conducted to assess the relationship between dietary patt...