Volume 15 Issue 4

▪ Keyword : snack foods, satiety, high protein, glucose, insulin response

▪ Content : The replacement in the diet of refined carbohydrate and fat with fibre and protein has been shown to promote satiety and improve glucose and insulin profiles. It is less clear whether the macronutrient composition of individual foods such as snacks have any meaningful impact on metabolic parameters and satiety.

▪ Keyword : Health Related Quality of Life, obesity, women, WHOQOL, general health-related quality

▪ Content : The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the relationship between body weight and HRQOL in a representative sample of nonpregnant women in reproductive age period.

▪ Keyword : obesity , BMI, University students, nutrients intakes, Iran

▪ Content : Evaluating the nutritional status of individuals and population groups is an important tool in public health and a feasible indicator of standards of living. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of obesity and present nutritional status of university students of Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran.

▪ Keyword : Mindex, Demiquet, anthropometric, elders, rural, Thai

▪ Content : This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between alternative anthropometric indices and the nutritional and metabolic status of the Thai elderly. Four rural communities, each from the 4 main regions of Thailand were surveyed.

▪ Keyword : goitre, iodine deficiency, total goitre rate (TGR), urinary iodine excretion (UIE), iodine content of the salt

▪ Content : In 2000, India revoked the ban on production and sale of non-iodised salt. We conducted a study in the north 24 parganas district in the state of West Bengal to assess the prevalence of goitre, status of urinary iodine excretion (UIE) level and to estimate iodine content of salts at the household level.

▪ Keyword : urinary iodine, pregnancy, lactation, trimesters, non-pregnant

▪ Content : Urinary Iodine excretion is a useful and important indicator of the iodine status of a population. This study attempts to determine the urinary iodine concentration of non-pregnant, pregnant and lactating women, resident in the National Capital District of Papua New Guinea, so as to evaluate their status of iodine nutrition.

▪ Keyword : neonatal vitamin B12, birth weight, India

▪ Content : Earlier studies have shown a relationship between maternal vitamin B12 status and birth weight. This study extends those findings directly in terms of neonatal vitamin B12 status and birth weight.

▪ Keyword : β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate, inflammation, C-reactive protein, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

▪ Content : Elevated inflammatory markers and muscle wasting were common in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients.

▪ Keyword : chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, branched-chain amino acid, Fisher ratio

▪ Content : Recently, efforts in comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD have been made, including education, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nutrition, nursing, medication and counseling. Each patient focuses on a different element. Supplying adequate nutrition, among others, is essential for comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation, as well as survival.

▪ Keyword : probiotics, microbiota, probiotic bacteria, safety, clinical trials, intestinal microbiota

▪ Content : Science has progressed fast in providing answers to probiotic health benefits to the consumers. This symposium also proves that progress is fast. However, several challenges still need to be solved and more effective strains and strain combinations discovered.

▪ Keyword : Intestinal microbiota, diversity, genomics, probiotic, clinical studies

▪ Content : The human intestine is colonized by a large number of microorganisms, collectively termed microbiota, which support a variety of physiological functions. As the major part of the microbiota has not yet been cultured, molecular methods are required to determine microbial composition and the impact of specific dietary components including probiotics.

▪ Keyword : Australia, nutrition labelling, food standards, analytical precision

▪ Content : Nutrition labels guide consumers in making their food choice. New requirements for mandatory nutritionlabelling have been in force in Australia since late 2002. The present study, analysing 350 samples comprising 70 different products for nutritional compounds declared on the label, is the first larger attempt to quantify the precision in nutrition labelling of food products on the Australian market.

▪ Keyword : probiotic, safety, bacteraemia, clinical trial, guidelines, efficacy

▪ Content : New species and more specific strains of probiotic bacteria are constantly being sought for novel probiotic products. Prior to the incorporation of novel strains into food or therapeutic products a careful evaluation of their efficacy is required and an assessment made as to whether they share the safety status of traditional food organisms.

▪ Keyword : Adhesion, pathogens, Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Propionibacterium

▪ Content : In this study we evaluated the ability of commercial strains (L. rhamnosus GG, L. rhamnosus LC705, and P. freudenreichii ssp. shermanii JS) in combination with B. breve 99 or B. lactis Bb12 to inhibit, displace and compete with model pathogens in order to test their influence on the adhesion of selected pathogens to immobilized human intestinal mucus.

▪ Keyword : gastrointestinal symptoms, irritable bowel syndrome, probiotics, probiotic combination

▪ Content : Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common diagnoses in gastroenterology, but current therapies are inefficient. Recent clinical trials suggest beneficial effects of certain probiotics in IBS.

▪ Keyword : Under-reporting, energy intake, nutrients, diet, Iran

▪ Content : Under-reporting of energy intake is a common problem in nutritional epidemiological studies. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of under-reporting of energy intake on the estimates of nutrient intakes.

▪ Keyword : dietary assessment, schools, obesity prevention, children

▪ Content : There is a pressing need in Australia and other countries to develop systems for monitoring secular trends in childhood obesity and related behavioural and environmental determinants. Energy from foods and beverages consumed at school is an accessible indicator of children’s eating patterns and we have developed a school food checklist (SFC) to measure this.

▪ Keyword : selenium, serum, diet, zinc, children, Thailand

▪ Content : Selenium has important roles as an antioxidant, in thyroid hormone metabolism, redox reactions, reproduction and immune function, but information on the selenium status of Thai children is limited.

▪ Keyword : obesity, undernutrition, sub-Saharan Africa, children, migration

▪ Content : The study assessed the anthropometric status of 337 sub-Saharan African children aged between 3-12 years who migrated to Australia. These children were selected using a snowball sampling method stratified by age, gender and region of origin.

▪ Keyword : malnutrition, risk factors, children, rural, Nigeria, Africa

▪ Content : Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) remains a major public health problem in the developing world. The aim of this study was to determine the current nutritional status and the influence of feeding practices and family characteristics on the nutritional status of under-five rural Nigerian children.

▪ Keyword : adolescence, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, small dense low density lipoproteins, LDL size

▪ Content : South Asian adults are known to have very high rates of Coronary heart disease (CHD) and insulin resistance and, even as adolescents, may show higher risk factors for CHD. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of small, dense low density lipoprotein (sdLDL) subclasses in a cohort of adolescent boys.

▪ Keyword : Body Mass Index, body fat, BMI cut-off points, Japanese

▪ Content : The aim of the study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the BMI cut-off points that have been applied in the National Nutritional Survey in Japan (NNS-J) for young Japanese females. The relationship between the body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (%BF) of 139 young Japanese females (aged 18-27 years old) was examined using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and anthropometry.