Volume 23 Issue 1

▪ Keyword : ecohealth and econutrition, geobiology, connectedness, species, food and health systems

▪ Content : The inseparability of people from their ecosystem without biological change is increasingly clear. The discrete species concept is becoming more an approximation as the interconnectedness of all things, animate and inanimate, becomes more apparent.

▪ Keyword : body weight, dietary intake, obesity, physical activity, sleep deprivation

▪ Content : Sleep deficiency is becoming widespread in both adults and adolescents and is accompanied by certain behaviors that can lead to obesity. This study aims to investigate differences in sleep duration of overweight/obese and normal weight groups, and the association between sleep deprivation and obesity, dietary intake and physical activity.

▪ Keyword : delayed initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey, Indonesia

▪ Content : This analysis aims to examine factors associated with delayed initiation and non-exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia. Data were derived from the 2002/2003 and 2007 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey. Information from 12,191 singleton live-born infants aged 0-23 months was used to examine factors associated with delayed initiation of breastfeeding.

▪ Keyword : wasting, acute malnutrition, Laos, capacity-building, feeding behaviours

▪ Content : Laos is a low-income food-deficit country with pockets of high levels of wasting in the highland areas. We implemented a 3-year health/nutrition project in 12 villages in the highlands of Savannakhet province to reduce acute malnutrition in children. Volunteer nutrition teams in each village monitored child growth and promoted healthy feeding practices; a multisectoral district committee conducted monthly outreach to assess child growth, manage acute malnutrition and deliver primary health care services.

▪ Keyword : Children’s Eating Attitude Test -26, locus of control, significant others, media, elementary school students

▪ Content : OBJECTIVE: This study investigated Taiwanese elementary school students’ status in terms of body size, body satisfaction and disturbed eating tendencies. METHODS: In a cross-sectional survey, 1,261 elementary school children from grades four to six participated in this study. We used an anonymous self-reported questionnaire, which included: demographics and body satisfaction; Children’s Eating Attitude Test -26 (ChEAT-26); Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale; and Influence of Significant Others Scale and Media Impact Scale.

▪ Keyword : adolescents, quality of life, lifestyle, diet, Sydney Childhood Eye Study

▪ Content : We aimed to prospectively examine the association between the combined effects of obesogenic behaviors on quality of life (QOL) in adolescents. Of 2353 Sydney schoolchildren surveyed (median age 12.7 years), 1,213 were re-examined 5 years later at age 17-18. Children completed activity and food-frequency questionnaires.

▪ Keyword : breakfast, eating patterns, the metabolic syndrome, Korea, dairy-cereal

▪ Content : Objective: The purpose of this study is to find out the association between eating breakfast, breakfast patterns, and the metabolic syndrome. Methods: We used the fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007 to 2009. A total of 16,734 subjects were included. Breakfast dietary patterns were extracted by factor analysis. Multiple logistic regression was used to assess the relationship between breakfast consumption, breakfast dietary patterns, and the metabolic syndrome.

▪ Keyword : metabolic syndrome, food insecurity, harmonized criteria, low income communities, reproductive age women

▪ Content : This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between household food insecurity and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) among reproductive-aged women (n=625) in low income communities. The Radimer/Cornell Hunger and Food Insecurity instrument was utilized to assess food insecurity. Anthropometry, diet diversity, blood pressure and fasting venous blood for lipid and glucose profile were also obtained.

▪ Keyword : young adult, risk factors, cluster analysis, adiposity, cardiovascular diseases

▪ Content : BACKGROUND: With modernization, cardiometabolic disease risk has increased in low and middle-income countries. To better understand cardiometabolic disease etiology, we evaluated the patterning risk factors in a susceptible young adult population. METHODS AND RESULTS: Participants included 1,621 individuals from the 2005 Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey.

▪ Keyword : disaster, emergency shelter, gas, cooking, meals

▪ Content : The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 left many evacuees with insufficient food and emergency shelter. However, there is no evidence concerning the factors affecting dietary circumstances in emergency shelters after disasters. To clarify the factors that influenced the provision of meals, we reanalyzed a data set from a dietary survey conducted in emergency shelters one month after the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011).

▪ Keyword : metabolic syndrome, visceral obesity, adiponectin, gene polymorphism, Thais

▪ Content : The metabolic syndrome is related to increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Adiponectin is an adipocyte-secreted protein with insulin-sensitizing and anti-atherogenic properties. The aims of this study were to evaluate adiponectin levels and biochemical parameters in metabolic-syndrome subjects and healthy controls. The study also sought to identify links between two polymorphisms, -11377C>G (rs266729) and +45T>G (rs2241766) of the adiponectin gene, in relation to adiponectin levels and the metabolic syndrome.

▪ Keyword : dietetics, dietitian, China, gaps, nutrition

▪ Content : Background: A dietetics profession that conforms to the international standards for dietetics exists in many countries but not in the Peoples’ Republic of China (China). Might China benefit from the presence of the dietetics profession? Objective: The article reviews the current dietetic situation in China, summarizes the gaps between current realities in China with respect to meeting needs for nutritional care, and recommends improvements.

▪ Keyword : HIF-1α, RNA interfering, glycolysis, pancreatic cancer, hypoxia

▪ Content : Objectives: The aim of this study is to explore the possible role of HIF-1α in glucose metabolism, proliferation and apoptosis of pancreatic cancerous cells. Method: The pancreatic cancerous BxPC-3 cells were cultured in normoxia or hypoxia (3% O2), respectively. Cell proliferation was determined by MTT assay, apoptosis was determined by Annexin V/PI staining. Expression of Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK1), Lactate dehydrogenase (LDHA), pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) and citrate synthase (CS) was determined by Western-blot and Real-time PCR.

▪ Keyword : clinical nutrition practice, nutritional epidemiology, hierarchical evidence, portfolio evidence, econutrition

▪ Content : The clinical nutrition case study is a neglected area of activity and publication. This may be in part because it is not regarded as a serious contributor to evidence-based nutrition (EBN). Yet it can play a valuable part in hypothesis formulation and in the cross-checking of evidence. Most of all, it is usually a point at which the operationalisation of nutrition evidence is granted best current practice status.

▪ Keyword : energy-dense low-nutrient density foods, children's preferred foods, obesity, snacks, meal substitutes

▪ Content : The increasing rate of child obesity has developed into a serious concern in contemporary society. In Korea, additional concerns over unsanitary environments of food establishments near schools led to the enforcement in 2009 of the Special Act on the Safety Management of Children’s Dietary Life in order to improve food safety and nutrition.

▪ Keyword : malnutrition, glutamine, sepsis, transferrin, nitrogen balance

▪ Content : Our aim was to compare the effects of intravenous, enteral, and enteral plus intravenous supplemented glutamine on plasma transferrin, nitrogen balance, and creatinine/height index in septic patients with malnutrition. Blood and urine samples were collected for transferrin, urea and creatinine measurements. Samples, SOFA score and protein-calorie intake values were repeated on days 7 and 15. Patients (n:120) were randomly divided into 4 groups. Group I received 30 g/day IV glutamine, group II received 30 g/day enteral glutamine, group III received 15 g/day IV and 15 g/day enteral glutamine.

▪ Keyword : fast-track, nutrition, post-operative, colorectal, prospective

▪ Content : Fast-track (FT) has been shown to enhance post-operative recovery. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of FT and traditional nutrition on post-operative rehabilitation, as well as evaluate the feasibility of applying FT in nutrition management of colorectal surgery. A prospective and randomized controlled trial was performed. This study included 464 patients who underwent colorectal surgery.

▪ Keyword : children, intervention trial, lifestyle, obesity, physical activity

▪ Content : Background: urgent development of effective interventions to prevent rapidly rising childhood obesity in China is needed. Methods: Between May 2010 and December 2013, a cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted among 4th graders in eight urban primary schools randomly assigned to intervention or control groups in Nanjing, China. A multi-component intervention program was implemented within the treatment group, while students in the control group followed their usual health education curriculum without additional intervention.

▪ Keyword : dietary fatty acid, adipokines, plasminogen activator inhibitor -1, proinflammatory molecules, CRP

▪ Content : The aim of the study was to understand whether dietary fatty acids such as saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated fatty acids act as inflammatory mediators or influence pro-coagulation in Saudi adults. The study sought to examine inflammatory factors such as C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor-alpha and activated plasminogen activator inhibitor 1.

▪ Keyword : adiposity, body composition, body fat distribution, Koreans, vitamin D

▪ Content : The relationship between body fat mass and vitamin D appears to vary by ethnicity, but our understanding of this predisposition in Asians is limited due to the scarcity of prior investigations. Data on 1,697 Korean adults were obtained from the second and third years (2008-2009) of the fourth Korean National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey. Body fat mass was measured using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.

▪ Keyword : eating behavior, body mass index, body weight changes, weight gain, obesity

▪ Content : We examined the relationships of combined initial restrained and external/emotional eating with initial BMI and change in weight and these subscales over time. BMI and the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire were twice-measured in 1361 Korean twins and families (482 men, 879 women) over a period of 2.7±0.9 years. Subjects were classified by combination of initial sex-specific restrained and external (or emotional) eating tertiles.