Bread is one of the most widely consumed foods. Its impact on human health is currently of special interest for researchers. We aimed to identify biomarkers of bread consumption by applying a nutrimetabolomic approach to a free-living population. An untargeted HPLC-q-TOF-MS and multivariate analysis was applied to human urine from 155 subjects stratified by habitual bread consumption in three g...

background: this study was aimed to investigate the association of consuming white rice and potato, as well as the bread type with anthropometric measures and blood pressure (bp) in a national sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: this nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 students, aged 6-18 years, selected by multistage cluster sampling from 30 provinces of i...

An attempt is made in this paper to describe the development of dietary consumption of cereals and bread in Greece during the period 1957 2005. Greece is a typical example and the cradle of global food culture known as the "Mediterranean diet". This dietary culture has experienced huge changes and has declined, in the period 1950 2005. Certain foods which are important (because of their long tr...

Some studies have indicated that promoting the Mediterranean diet pattern as a model of healthy eating may help to prevent weight gain and the development of overweight/obesity. Bread consumption, which has been part of the traditional Mediterranean diet, has continued to decline in Spain and in the rest of the world, because the opinion of the general public is that bread fattens. The present ...

Background: Zinc deficiency is a common problem in the world. Finding adequate solution for combating this problem is very important. The aim of this research was study of the effect of consumption of whole bread baked from cultivated wheat with microfertilizer on serum zinc. Materials & Methods: This double blind field trial was carried out on two villages: Tajaragh as experimental (n=160) an...

Food photographs are widely used as instruments to estimate portion sizes of consumed foods. Several food atlases are available, all developed to be used in a specific context and for a given study population. Frequently, food photographs are adopted for use in other studies with a different context or another study population. In the present study, errors in portion size estimation of bread, m...

AIM The aim of this observational study was to investigate the intake of dietary fibre and its sources among Polish adolescents according to prevalence of overweight after adjustment for age and gender. METHODS The study sample consisted of 1,565 students, including 48% boys and 52% girls aged 13-18 with normal weight, overweight and obesity. Dietary information was reported using the Block S...

conclusions the findings of this study offer information regarding the current dietary patterns among adolescent girls that can be used to design educational programs to promote healthy eating in this group. objectives the objective of this study was to examine the food consumption patterns of and obesity in female adolescents in khorramshahr high schools. materials and methods this cross-secti...

Conclusion: In age group of 5-12 no significant difference was observed between the two kinds of wheat. Introduction: Iron deficiency anemia is one of the most common problems in the world. This study was carried out to determine the effect of consumption of whole bread baked from cultivated wheat with microfertilizers on blood indices of iron . Materials and Methods: In this field trial and ...