摘要：When prevalence data or other statistics related to overweight and obesity are presented, the criteria used to obtain such information must be defined。 As described by Kuczmarski and Flegal (1), t...

摘要：Stephensen and Gildengorin (1) are to be commended for their creative use of publicly available data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) to assess the relat...

摘要：Human milk contains cellular and “humoral“ components that reduce the risk of intestinal and systemic infection during infancy and enhance the ontogeny of the immune system (1, 2)。 I use “humor...

摘要：Osteoporosis, the most common type of metabolic bone disease, affects 20 million Americans and leads to 1。 The relation between alcohol use and osteoporotic bone disease was first reported in 1965...

摘要：US government agencies are making the transition to a revised BMI definition of overweight from that previously recommended for general use。 The purpose of this article is to inform the broader me...

摘要：ABSTRACTFree radicals and other reactive species are constantly generated in vivo and cause oxidative damage to DNA at a rate that is probably a significant contributor to the age-related developme...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Orange juice—。 Objective: We determined whether orange juice beneficially altered blood lipids in subjects with moderate hypercholesterolemia。 Participants incorporated 1,...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Small body size at birth has been reported to be associated with an atherogenic lipid profile in humans, and animal experiments have shown that undernutrition during pregnancy p...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Single-meal tests have shown that protein has greater thermogenic and satiating effects than does carbohydrate, which may be relevant for the prevention and treatment of obesity...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: An adequate iodine supply in utero and shortly after birth is known to be crucial to an individual‘s physical and mental development。 The question of whether iodine supplement...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Breast-fed and formula-fed infants differ in the amount and type of polyunsaturated fatty acids consumed。 The fatty acid composition of cell membranes is related to dietary fat...

摘要：chDear Sir: I am grateful to Kao et al for their interesting compilation of recent data about the effects of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)—。 We showed its dependency on sympathetically relea...

摘要：Walter C WillettDepartment of Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health 665 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115Dear Sir: In their recent article in the Journal, Schaefer et al (1) concluded that a f...

摘要：The use of food-frequency questionnaires to estimate absolute nutrient intakes is frequent in research, although food-frequency questionnaires have not been validated against an appropriate standar...

摘要：rstCeSSIAM, Guatemala City, GuatemalaUniversity of Bonn, Bonn, GermanyHohenheim University, Stuttgart, GermanyDear Sir: Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in intra- and extracellular fluid, ...

摘要：Juan F Navarro and Carmen MoraDepartment of Nephrology and Research Unit, Hospital Nuestra Señ。esDear Sir: We thank Solomons et al for their interest in our study on amino acid losses during...

摘要：Wilfred DrumlMedical Department III, Division of Nephrology, Vienna Medical School, Vienna, AustriaDear Sir: Navarro et al (1) reported recently on amino acid losses during hemodialysis therapy wit...

摘要：esDear Sir: We thank Druml for his interest in our study on amino acid losses during hemodialyisis with polyacrylonitrile membranes and the effect of intradialytic amino acid supplementation (1) an...

摘要：Kuan-Pin Su, Winston W Shen and Shih-Yi HuangDepartments of Psychiatry, Taipei Medical College-affiliated, Wan Fan Hospital and TMC HospitalGraduate Institute of Nutrition, and Health Science, TMC,...

摘要：Maine D。 Role of nutrition in the prevention of toxemia。