The association between birth weight and blood pressure is well established but at present unexplained. According to the Borst-Guyton concept, chronic hypertension can occur only with a shift in the renal pressurenatriuresis relationship resulting in increased salt sensitivity of blood pressure. We assessed salt sensitivity of blood pressure in a group of 27 healthy adults whose birth weight wa...

Dietary intake provides valuable insights for mounting intervention programs for prevention of disease. With growing concern for adolescent obesity, the need to accurately measure diet becomes imperative. Assessment among adolescents is problematic as this group has irregular eating patterns and have less enthusiasm for recording food intake. Preliminary studies among adolescents suggest that i...

Previous morphological and isotopic studies indicate that Late Pleistocene cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) diet ranged from mostly vegetarian to omnivory or even carnivory. However, such analyses do not provide information on seasonal diets, and only provide an average record of diet. A dental microwear analysis of 43 young and adult individuals demonstrate that, during the predormancy period, cave ...

Purpose: In the last few years there has been considerable talk of the ‘Stone Age diet’ as an attractive alternative to the ‘modern’ diet. The underlying idea is that recent distortions of diet are likely to be harmful and that, if we can recover a primeval diet, we will live in closer harmony with our digestive systems and their evolutionary biochemistry. This paper aims to evaluate that set o...

Observations on the natural history of snakes, including their food items and behavior, are essential for increasing basic knowledge about species. Here we report encounter a Pseudoboini snake, Boiruna sertaneja, feeding an individual Philodryas nattereri unnatural perch elevated two meters above ground level. This is first record predation by B. sertaneja P. nattereri, which increases what kno...

Colubrids are known to feed on other vertebrates such as birds, small mammals, lizards, and in some cases eggs invertebrates. On the contrary, there is a considerable gap information variety of aspects natural history anguids. We report first record Lampropeltis polyzona preying Celestus legnotus, one least anguids México, so based photograph taken community Atemeya, municipality Yaonahuac, Pue...

Harvestmen are relevant in the food chains of different terrestrial ecosystems, including agricultural systems. In this sense, work presents new information about use social wasps, Polistes simillimus Zikán, 1951 diet Gonyleptes atrus Mello-Leitão, 1923. The recording was carried out at random, on May 31, 2022 a semideciduous seasonal forest, phytophysiognomy Atlantic Forest, Parque Nacional do...

Diet quality indices assess compliance with dietary guidelines and represent a measure of healthy dietary patterns. Few studies have compared different approaches to assessing diet quality in the same cohort. Our analysis was based on 972 participants of the British Diet and Nutrition Survey of people aged 65 y and older in 1994/1995 and who were followed-up for mortality status until 2008. Die...

Knowledge of our ancestor’s diets is becoming increasingly important in evolutionary medicine, as researchers have argued that we have evolved to specific type of ‘Palaeolithic’ diet, and many modern nutritional disorders relate to the mismatch between the diet to which we have evolved, and the relatively newer agricultural-based ‘Neolithic’ diets. However, what is the archaeological evidence f...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This study aims to develop a mobile nutritional management program for integration into the already developed web-based program, Diabetes Mellitus Dietary Management Guide (DMDMG) for diabetic patients. Further, we aim to evaluate the amended DMDMG program. SUBJECTS/METHODS The mobile application based on an Android operating system includes three parts: 1) record of die...