Background: In the last decades, Tunisia has undergone major demographic, socio-economic and lifestyle (including diet) changes, with drastic increases in excess adiposity nutrition related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This review provides an update of nutritional situation Tunisia. Methods: Several Tunisian datasets or international databases were used to assess availability consumption f...

This paper proposes a finite mixture model (FMM) to model the behavioral transition of calorie consumption with an assumption that nutrition consumption is a mixture of two different behavioral stages: a poor stage and an affluent stage. Based on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90 primary studies, our results identify that the threshold income for calorie demand transition is 459...

Nutrition has been known to impact animal immunity for some time, but recent data have demonstrated important impacts of the immune system on metabolism. This cross-talk, mediated by absorbed nutrients, intermediary metabolites, and inflammatory compounds, is especially prevalent during the transition to lactation. A clearer picture is emerging at the mechanistic level to explain why cows with ...