PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To provide, for the first time, the calculated nutritional composition of 32 composite dishes commonly consumed in Barbados to enable dietary intake to be calculated from a Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire developed specifically for this population to determine associations between diet and risk of prostate and breast cancer. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Weighed recipes w...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate how frequently male and female school and university students consumed energy drinks, their reasons for drinking them, and the extent of their knowledge about the beverages. METHODS A self-administrated questionnaire was used to collect data from 4355 students (ages 12-26 years). RESULTS Nearly 60% of the students consumed at least one can ...

The 2010 Energy Drinks Symposium was organised and sponsored by the Austrian Food Testing Institute (Lebensmittelversuchsanstalt, LVA) and the Austrian Food Industries Association (FIAA) in Vienna, on 12 October, 2010.

BACKGROUND In-store availability of healthy and unhealthy foods may influence consumer purchases. Methods used to measure food availability, however, vary widely. A simple, valid, and reliable indicator to collect comparable data on in-store food availability is needed. METHODS Cumulative linear shelf length of and variety within 22 healthy and 28 unhealthy food groups, determined based on a ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of the consumption of energy drinks on cardiovascular parameters in a group of healthy young individuals. METHODS In a quasi-experimental study, 44 healthy adult participants aged between 15 and 30 years were evaluated. The blood pressure (BP) as well as electrocardiographic indices, including heart rate (HR), PR interval, QRS duration, corrected QT (QTc) int...

BACKGROUND The objective was to study nutritional supplement use among young elite UK athletes to establish whether a rationale versus practice incongruence exists, and to investigate the sources of information. Survey data were analysed for association between supplements used and motives for using such substances among young athletes along with the sources of advice and literature precedents ...