Excess weight is associated with negative health outcomes. Meal replacements are effective in promoting favorable body composition changes in civilian populations; however, their efficacy with military service members who have unique lifestyles is unknown. The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to determine the efficacy of the Army's education-based weight-management program, "We...

Background: Maggot meal, popularly magmeal is a core product consisting of dried defatted larvae that ground into high protein meal. It potential alternative for fish replacement in the diet quails. Methods: A study on 240 Japanese quail birds from day old to six week age was conducted at Poultry Research Station, Madhavaram Milk Colony, Chennai with supplementation during year 2015-16. The wer...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of replacing fish meal with plant sources on growth performance, immune responses, hematological parameters and disease resistance in rainbow trout. In this study, mean of initial body weight of fish was 15±2 g and the experiment was carried out for a period of 60 days. Four experimental diets were formulated to replace 0, 40, 70 and 100% fish me...

Two feeding trials were conducted to evaluate the influence of dietary curcumin level on fish meal replacement with poultry by-product (PBM) in a largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) diet. In trial I, reference diet (R) contained 400 g/kg meal, and PBM replaced 60 80% (P16 P8). II, containing 80 (P8) served as control (C), was added at 5000 10000 mg/kg (C5 C10), respectively. Replacement sig...

Three different varieties of cottonseed meal (CSM) were evaluated to measure the apparent digestibility coefficient (ADC) of the nutrients using chromic oxide (Cr2O3) as an indigestible marker. Five experimental diets were prepared and mixed with 1% of Cr2O3, 2% of mineral and vitamin each of which were premixed. Diet 1 was used as the control diet. Diets 2, 3, 4 and 5 were formulated using 70...