In a report on vegetarianism recently published by the British Nutrition Foundation (1995) it was noted that, between 1988 and 1994 there was a threefold rise in the proportion of women, aged between 16 and 64 years who avoided eating meat. This dramatic increase in the popularity of meat avoidance has raised many concerns about the adequacy of a meatless diet, in particular for teenage girls b...

Title: Analysis of nutritional adequacy of local foods for meeting dietary requirements of children aged 6-23 months in rural central Tanzania Authors: Jofrey Raymond ([email protected]) Morris Agaba ([email protected]) Clara Mollay ([email protected]) Jerman Rose ([email protected]) Neema Kassim ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 06 Jul 2017 Author...

The American Dietetic Association (ADA) has stated that the best nutritional strategy for promoting optimal health and reducing the risk of chronic disease is to wisely choose a wide variety of foods. Seventy diets were computer analyzed from the menu of athletes or sedentary subjects seeking to improve the quality of micronutrient intake from food choices. All of these dietary analyses fell sh...

38 N utritional assessment is a cornerstone of veterinary wellness care, with recent guidelines encouraging a complete and thorough dietary evaluation for every patient. Practitioners now encounter a number of new trends and controversies in small animal nutrition. A recent market analysis suggests that natural and organic pet foods will exhibit significant growth in coming years. Major pet foo...

Past research shows that food neophobics (those individuals reluctant to try novel foods) and food neophilics (those individuals overtly willing to try novel foods) differ in terms of sensory evaluations, psychophysical ratings, stimulus sampling, physiological responses, and genetic predispositions. The present study assessed whether such factors had an effect on participants’ dietary consumpt...

BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery, particularly the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is currently the most effective method of sustainable weight loss for the morbidly obese patient population. Unfortunately, the nutritional adequacy of the postoperative diet has frequently been overlooked, and in the months to years that follow, many nutritional deficiencies have become apparent. Furthermore, once weight ...

A projected doubling in the global population of people aged ≥60 y by the year 2050 has major health and economic implications, especially in developing regions. Burdens of unhealthy aging associated with chronic noncommunicable and other age-related diseases may be largely preventable with lifestyle modification, including diet. However, as adults age they become at risk of "nutritional frailt...

Due to its peculiar nutritional and non-nutritional contents, which include long-chain polyunsatured fatty acids (LC-PUFA), prebiotics, immunological factors, hormones and growth factors, breast milk shows significant advantages over infant formulas in nourishing preterm infants. Better neurocognitive outcomes, which are reported to persist far beyond the early childhood, have been largely obse...