I . The changes in serum lipid and protein concentrations, and in carbohydrate tolerance were studied in eleven young male volunteers during a pweek period of either nibbling or gorging a diet containing a high proportion of sucrose. 2. It was found that when gorging, the serum glyceride concentration rose early in the dietary period and reached a plateau, that the serum albumin concentration f...

Literature on artificial membrane feeding has traditionally supported the notion that mosquitoes have to be enough old to present a high gorging rate and enough young to present a high surviving rate. In order to know the best mosquito age to perform a Plasmodium sp. experimental infection revealed by oocyst examination, Anopheles arabiensis of known ages were fed on baudruche membrane with fre...

literature on artificial membrone feeding has traditionally supported the notion that mosquitoes have to be enough old to present a high gorging rote and enough young to present o high surviving rote In order to know the best mosquito age to perform a Plasmodium sp experimental infection revealed by oocyst examination, Anopheles orabiensis of known ages were fed on baudruche membrone with fresh...

Six grossly obese patients were fed 5000 calorie diets for 4 wk. During one period of 2 wk, the calories were consumed over 4 hr (gorging) and during the other 2 wk, the dietary intake was spread over 20 hr (nibbling). Each of these periods followed a low caloric intake which lasted at least 10 days. Three male patients (group I) were studied at or near their maximal weight and three females (g...

In the present study, we compared the effects of nibbling and gorging on postprandial lipaemia and lipoproteins, hepatic lipid uptake and atheroma deposition. New Zealand White rabbits were fed on a low-fat (LF) control diet or a peanut oil- (10 g/d) and cholesterol- (0.5 g/d) enriched (HF) diet with the fat and cholesterol components given either by nibbling (HF-N) or gorging (HF-G). After 4 a...

Rhodnius prolixus periodically gorges on a blood meal that could compromise salt and water balance. This, however, is prevented by rapid production of urine within minutes of feeding. The Malpighian tubules increase their rate of secretion 1,000 fold leading to the production of a hypo-osmotic urine that is high in NaCl content. Feeding and post-prandial diuresis in R. prolixus are tightly coor...

Background: Although consumption of three or less than three meals per day (gorging regimen) is usual in some communities, in western population there is an inclination towards many small meals a day (nibbling regimen). Up to now the effects of meal frequency on serum immunoglobulins have not been investigated in laboratory animals. There is also some controversy information about the effect of...

Cassava is a high carbohydrate, low protein food source that has been previously implicated to cause tropical chronic pancreatitis in developing countries Recently it has been disproven as a sole cause of chronic pancreatitis, however, its role as a possible cofactor (due to high levels of cyanogens) contributing to the development of pancreatitis cannot be ruled out. Alcohol is a well-known ri...

objective despite numerous reports on the effects of meal frequency on biochemical parameters such as plasma lipid profile, glucose and insulin, there is almost no study to investigate the influence of meal frequency on immune system. in the present article, for the first time, the effect of meal frequency on complement components c3 and c4, as key components of the complement system, has been ...