Introduction: In the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims abstain from eating and drinking during daytime and mostly take two meals per day. One of these major meals is consumed before sunrise (Sahur), and the other is taken after sunset (Iftar). The partial nutritional deprivation in Ramadan may affect the immune system, while the other rituals of this month might render fasting individuals suscepti...

Context Food Allergy is common in the paediatric population and increasingly persists into adulthood. Allergies have a significant impact on quality of life and adolescents are over represented in significant and fatal reactions. Associated asthma increases the risk of a fatal reaction. Provision of allergy services within adult medicine can be limited and there is often no clear structure for ...

INTRODUCTION Unhealthy diets are heavily driven by unhealthy food environments. The International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) has been established to reduce obesity, NCDs and their related inequalities globally. This paper describes the design and methods of the first-ever, comprehensive national survey on the ...

1. Possible association between high rates of feather pecking and increased stress were investigated in laying hens. 2. From week 19 to week 30 after hatching, 16 groups of 11 hens (white Lohman Selected Leghorn hybrids) were kept in pens with or without long-cut straw as foraging material and provided with food in the form of pellets or mash. 3. Stress was assessed by egg production, weight ga...

OBJECTIVE To explore the social organization of food provision and dietary intake in seriously mentally ill people with diabetes who reside in a for-profit group home. METHODS Institutional ethnography was used to explore diabetes-related care practices among 26 women in a rural residential care facility in southern Ontario. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with residents w...

OBJECTIVE To explore nutrition and food provision in pre-school nurseries in order to develop interventions to promote healthy eating in pre-school settings. DESIGN Quantitative data were gathered using questionnaires and professional menu analysis. SETTING In the community, at pre-school nurseries. SUBJECTS All 130 nurseries across Liverpool were a sent questionnaire (38 % response rate)...

Churchill and Churchill’s editorial discusses negative (health) effects of commercialism in the provision of health care and nutrition. Three parts of their argument are commented: the claim that the fundamental problem of markets is the decomposition of the whole into parts (“reductionism”); the call for individual responsibility; and the notion of holism. On the three aspects the commentary c...