Adverse health consequences of consuming sugar-sweetened beverages are frequently cited as an example of market failure, justifying government intervention in the marketplace, usually in the form of taxation. However, declining sales of sugar-sweetened beverages in Australia and a corresponding increase in sales of drinks containing non-nutritive sweeteners, in the absence of significant govern...

Acquiring enough food to meet energy expenditure is fundamental for all organisms. Thus, mechanisms have evolved to allow foods with high nutritional value to be readily detected, consumed, and remembered. Although taste is often involved in these processes, there is a wealth of evidence supporting the existence of taste-independent nutrient sensing. In particular, post-ingestive mechanisms ari...

AIMS To assess the effect of the type of feeding and non-nutritive sucking activity on occlusion in deciduous dentition. METHODS Retrospective study of 1130 preschool children (3-5 years of age) who had detailed infant feeding and non-nutritive sucking activity history collected by a structured questionnaire. They all had an oral examination by a dentist, blinded to different variables evalua...

There is ongoing debate concerning non-nutritive sweeteners, their usage, and their effects on metabolism. The association between non-nutritive sweeteners consumption, development of metabolic diseases, and changes in appetite-regulating hormones is not clear. The aim of this article is to present an overview of non-nutritive sweeteners and to examine the scientific evidence of their effects o...

The importance of sugar as the principal dietary substrate that drives the caries process has led to growing interest in sugar substitutes. Dynamic relation exists between sugars and oral health. Dental profession shares an interest in the search for safe, palatable sugar substitutes to prevent dental caries and have attempted to persuade their patients to adopt special dietary programs to limi...

Purpose: To verify the influence of preterm infants’ behavioral states in non-nutritive sucking, nutritive sucking and feeding performance at the moment of oral feeding release. Methods: Thirty-two preterm infants participated in the study. They were hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and presented stable clinical conditions. After medical release for oral feeding, the following asp...

Anjeer (Ficus carica Linn.) is a well known fruit and an important Unani Medicine mentioned in classical literature with significant pharmacological activity. It being used as Mughazzi (Nutritive), Mulyyan (Laxative), Muqawwi baah (Aphrodisiac), Daf-e-Waram (Anti-inflammatory), Mukhrij Balgham (Expectorant) Mudrr-e-Baul (Diuretic) since long times. This has remarkable nutritional ingredients be...

Alternative phenotypes are discrete phenotypic differences that develop in response to both genetic and environmental cues. Nutritive embryos, which arrest their development to serve as nutrition for their viable siblings, are an example of an alternative developmental phenotype found in many animal groups. Females of the marine snail, Crepidula navicella, produce broods that consist mainly of ...