BACKGROUND Coeliac disease is a common, autoimmune disorder, for which the only treatment is lifelong adherence to a gluten-free diet. This study evaluates the economic burden of adhering to a gluten-free diet. METHODS A market basket of products identified by name brand, weight or package size for both regular wheat-based products and gluten-free counterparts was developed. The differences i...

objective the ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low carbohydrate, adequate protein diet,developed in the 1920s for the management of intractable seizure disorders in children. to evaluate efficacy and tolerability of the classic  ketogenic diet, we analyzed records of the children started on the diet from 1999 to 2006 at the mofid children's hospital.materials & methods   the subjects were 87 child...

A high sugar intake is a subject of scientific debate due to the suggested health implications and recent free sugar recommendations by the WHO. The objective was to complete a food composition table for added and free sugars, to estimate the intake of total sugars, free sugars, and added sugars, adherence to sugar guidelines and overall diet quality in Dutch children and adults. In all, 3817 m...

Sir, Serum IgA class anti-endomysial antibodies (EMA) are markers of coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) and are useful in monitoring compliance to diet. Their overall sensitivity for the diagnosis of DH is about 80% and their specificity around 96% (1). As anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) have already been reported in pemphigus (2, 3), the presence of AGA in another patient with pem...

http://www.ayubmed.edu.pk/JAMC/23-1/Mohsin.pdf 1 EDITORIAL GLUTEN-FREE DIET: DEFINITION AND APPLICATIONS Mohsin Rashid, Aamir Ghafoor Khan Medical Advisory Board, Pakistani Celiac Society, Lahore, Pakistan Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Faculty of Gastroenterology, Post Graduate Medic...

Mass Radiography E. J. C. Kendall, M.D., and others; G. N. W. Tilsley, M.B., and W. E. Greaves, M.B.; D. R. Wallace-Jones, D.M.R.D., and M. Goldm an, D.M.R.D. ........ ......................495 Investigations in Enuretic Children D. M. T. Gairdner, F.R.C.P. 496 Mentally Subnormal Children B. D. J. Leary, .B. ........................ 496 Transmission of Toxoplasmosis J. H. E. Th. Meuwissen, M.D....

Whether oats should be included in a gluten-free diet has been debated for half a century. In 1995, the largest and most scientifically rigorous study on the safety of oats was published. Investigators concluded that the consumption of oats was safe for adults with celiac disease. Since 1995, several additional studies have been published. Without exception, these investigations found no advers...

Anserine and carnosine in the muscle of growing rats were measured to explore the effect of dietary methionine. Carnosine was reduced in the gastrocnemius muscle of rats fed on a methionine-free diet. After refeeding on methionine for one week, carnosine in the muscle approached to the normal level. In contrast, anserine increased in the muscle of rats fed on a methionine-free diet. Anserine al...

Purified liver plasma membranes were prepared from rats fed a high-fat, carbohydrate-free diet or a high-glucose, fat-free diet. Membranes from rats fed the high-fat diet bound significantly less 125I-labeled concanavalin A (Con A) than did those from rats fed the fat-free diets. The magnitude of the binding difference increased with increasing concentrations of Con A. Neither association nor d...