low caloric sweeteners have been investigated to substitute sugar as an advantage for both nutritional and medicinal purpose. these sugar substitutes are interesting particularly for concepts marketed under a natural claim. among these, stevia rebaudiana is a small shrub; its leaves are used as a sweetener. serial dilution of the hot water crude extract of s. rebaudiana leaves and aqueous solut...

Background and Aim: Physical activity and nutrition are important topics in adolescent health. This study aimed to determine the predictors of nutritional knowledge, behaviors, and physical activity in fifth-grade elementary school female students Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was performed on 480 female students in the fifth grade of the elementary ...

inappropriate feeding grounds for many common diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. this study was conducted to determine knowledge, attitude and nutrition and its relationship with body mass index (bmi) was to allow students using data and recognize the status quo and in order to increase awareness, attitude and nutrition of students and strengthen the indicators and t...

Cereal grains are considered by consumers due to effect on health because of their antioxidant capacity, phenolic content and other phytochemicals. For this purpose, an experiment was conducted to evaluate of morphological and nutritional traits on 10 rice genotypes. Analysis of variance showed a significant different among the genotypes for all traits. Onda, Gharib, Fajr and L2 genotypes had t...

SIMON R. HARRIS,'' DAVIDE PISANI,' DAVID J. GOWER, AND MARK WILKINSON 7 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK; E-mail: [email protected] (S.R.H.) School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 IK], UK School of Biology and Psychology, Division of Biology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NEl 7RU, UK Bioinformatics Laboratory, The National Un...