BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Use of nutrition labels in food selection is recommended for consumers. The aim of this study is to examine factors, mainly beliefs explaining nutrition label use in female college students based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). SUBJECTS/METHODS The subjects were female college students from a university in Seoul, Korea. The survey questionnaire was composed of i...

BACKGROUND The provision of nutrition care by doctors is important in promoting healthy dietary habits, and such interventions can lead to reductions in disease morbidity, mortality, and medical costs. However, medical students and doctors report inadequate nutrition education and preparedness during their training at school. Previous studies investigating the inadequacy of nutrition education ...

Background: Infertility is an emotional crisis with physical economic and psychosocial challenge because it interferes with all personal life aspects. Infertility can be due to many reasons Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this including issues of genetics, physiology, nutrition and management, Consuming vegetable protein (soy) instead of carbohydrates or animal protein is associat...

abstract regarding to this issue that nitrogen is one of the main essential elements for plant that growth and efficiency of plant is related to it, and on the other hand most of the water and soil resources in iran are alkaline; in order to evaluation of the interactive effect of different concentrations of sodium bicarbonate and nitrogen form on snap bean in hydroponic system, this research w...

introduction: providing the nutritional requirements of agricultural crops by non-chemical resources is a new approach in the organic farming that has attracted the attention of both the researchers and the consumers in recent years. therefore, it is highly important to find new fertilizer resources that are both economically able to provide the nutritional needs of the crop plants and have no ...

background: unhealthy nutrition is very influential in incidence of some diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes.  since the most unhealthy behaviors was originated from childhood or adolescence experiences, and proper nutrition during puberty has strong influence on health, therefore this study was to examined the effects of two educational methods on nutritional knowledg...

this paper argues that commercial forces have steadily encroached into our understanding of medicine and health in modern industrial societies. the impact on the delivery of personal medical services and on common ideas about food and nutrition is profound and largely deleterious to public health. a key component of commercialization is reductionism of medical services, health products and nutr...

isotopic and nuclear techniques play an important role in food and agriculture, health and industry. in the agricultural sciences and food technology sectors, recent research has elucidated the new potential application of radiation for microbial decontamination, food preservation, improve the nutritional quality of  foods  and effectively utilise its potential as human food or animal feed. the...

plants absorb nutrients needed for plant type, growing season, depending on soil and yield. absorb of nutrient 30-90 percent depends management practices in the use of fertilizer. can be used fertilizers in most cases soil and for foliar feeding can be quickly absorbed into the plant at the proper levels of nutrition in cucumber. in this experiment, was used a split plot in a randomized complet...

phytic acid is a major storage form of phosphorous in cereals that acts as food inhibitor by chelating micronutrients and prevents it to be bioavailabe for monogastric animals, including humans. ninety three wheat (triticum aestivum l.) germplasms, including cultivars from india, were characterized for phytic acid and fe contents. phytic acid contents ranged from 0.59 (iitr 92) to 2.08% (iitr 2...