BACKGROUND The Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 recommends that Americans increase their intake of dairy products. However, some studies have reported that increasing dairy product intake is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine associations between intakes of calcium and dairy products and the risk of prostate cancer. METHODS We se...

BACKGROUND Dairy product and calcium intakes have been associated with increased prostate cancer risk, but whether specific dairy products or calcium sources are associated with risk is unclear. OBJECTIVE In the Continuous Update Project, we conducted a meta-analysis of prospective studies on intakes of dairy products and calcium and prostate cancer risk. DESIGN PubMed and several other dat...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies have shown that consumption of dairy product plays an important role in prevention and treatment of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to examine the association of dairy intake with MetS and its components in Tehranian adolescents. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 785 adolescent aged 10 to 19 years, pa...

BACKGROUND Adequate daily milk and dairy products intake seems to an important for adolescents' health. This study aimed to identify the high-risk group adolescents who did not meet the recommended daily serving milk and dairy products and indeed to find out associated factors relating to their nutrition behaviors. METHODS This cross sectional study was carried out on 7th grade students, in T...

RECENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR PREGNANCY DIAGNOSIS IN SHEEP AND GOAT: AN OVERVIEW Shabir Ahmad Lone 1* , Shailesh Kumar Gupta 2 , Narendra Kumar 2 , Kuladip Prakash Shinde 2 , Bilal Ahmad Ganaie 1 , Haneef Ahmad Rather 1 and Sunil Kumar 3 1 PhD Scholar, Animal Reproduction Gynaecology and obstetrics, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001, Haryana, INDIA 2 PhD Scholar, Livestock product...

The constraints that cooperative and non-cooperative dairy farms face in expanding milk production have been reported based on a field study on some cooperative and non-cooperative dairy farms in the state of West Bengal. The study has shown that non-cooperative farms face major constraints and high severity compared with cooperative farms in expanding milk production. Also important is that mo...

Analytical technology based on biosensor is an extremely broad field which has impacts on food and dairy sector as the online quality control is essential in food and dairy industry and efficient quality assurance is becoming increasingly important. Food producers are increasingly asking for efficient quality control methods to satisfy the consumer and regulatory requirements to improve the pro...

Raising dairy heifers from birth to calving has been found to comprise the second largest expense on the dairy farm towards the production of milk (Heinrichs, 1993) and therefore require a reasonably high level of attention on a commercial dairy farm. The focus of this paper will be feedstuffs, in particular limiting forages for the development of the rumen in the neonate, as well as a possible...

Fermented dairy products are products that can be produced via fermentation of lactose by microorganisms especially by lactic acid bacteria. When examining worldwide, various dairy products which are different in name but similar in content can be found and those products are an important part of human diet (Tamime & Marshall, 1997; Moayednia et al., 1999; Tamime & Robinson, 1999; Nilsson et al...