Animal data indicate that greater intake of fats and sugars prevalent in a Western diet impairs hippocampal memory and tests of behavioral inhibition known to be related to hippocampal function (e.g., feature negative discrimination tasks). It has been argued that such high-fat high-sugar diets (HFS) impair the hippocampus, which then becomes less sensitive to modulation by physiological state....

BACKGROUND To examine patients' perceived quality of care and reported receipt of information on diet and exercise related to cardiovascular disease prevention. METHODS Patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes or elective cardiac catheterization were eligible for enrollment. Baseline medical information was collected through medical-record review. Patients completed surveys at the time...

The effects of vitamin supplements and/or diet on the vitamin levels in milk of women were determined at 6 months postpartum. Six subjects consumed a daily supplement (Natalins, Mead-Johnson) in addition to a well-balanced diet--supplemented group, and six subjects consumed only a well-balanced diet--nonsupplemented group. The subjects expressed milk for 3 days at 4-hr intervals, 0, 4, 8, and 1...

Arandomized, controlled study of 12 patients with mild chronic renal failure was designed to assess the metabolic effects of a low-protein diet supplemented (n = 6) or not (n = 6) with ketoanalogs of amino acids. The protein intake was prescribed so that both groups were isonitrogenous. The dietary survey each month included a 3-d food record and a 24-h urine collection for urea measurement. Af...

Evidence of associations between meal frequency (MF) and snack frequency (SF) and diet and obesity in young populations is limited. This cross-sectional study examined MF and SF in relation to dietary intake and adiposity measures in British children aged 4-10 years (n 818) and adolescents aged 11-18 years (n 818). Based on data from a 7-d weighed dietary record, all eating occasions were divid...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the amount and sources of vitamin D in the Japanese diet by analyzing diet records collected over a 4-mo period. METHODS Dietary data for this study were provided by a nursing home in Niigata, Japan. Diet records, written by the nursing home's dietitian, for 122 consecutive days between September and December 1999, were used. The amount of food for an individual was...

The archaeological record of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition (PHT) demonstrates that the technology and mobility of Prearchaic hunter-gatherers differed dramatically from later Holocene foragers, suggesting a hunting-oriented subsistence. However, meager PHT faunal assemblages imply a generalized, broad-spectrum diet. Ethnographic analogy fails to provide a behavioral framework for understa...

Underground storage organs are poorly preserved in the archaeological record, and as a result their contribution to diet of ancient societies is understood. Starch grain analysis well-established methodology used archaeology reveal use various plants, including tubers, rhizomes, roots. This paper presents results study starch grains recovered from millstones sites located Paris Basin. Our highl...