摘要：Charles H Halsted, Editor-in-Chief1 From the Departments of Internal Medicine and Nutrition, University of California, Davis。2 Address reprint requests to CH Halsted, The American Journal of Clini...

摘要：The Food and Drug Administration mandated the folate fortification of grain products in the United States by January 1998。 Food fortification rather than supplementation in planning pregnancies wa...

摘要：The importance of the intake during childhood and adolescence of dietary calcium, which in the United States is derived largely from milk and dairy products, to the risk of osteoporotic fractures i...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Effective public policy requires information on the prevalence of overweight and obesity。 Objective: We determined changes in the population prevalence of overweight and obesit...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: A substantial proportion of total body potassium (TBK) in humans is found in skeletal muscle (SM), thus affording a means of predicting total-body SM from whole-body counter...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: The delivery of circulating tryptophan to the brain and its conversion to serotonin vary directly with plasma concentrations of tryptophan and inversely with those of other larg...

摘要：nen, Riitta Salonen, George A Kaplan and Jukka T Salonen1 From the Research Institute of Public Health (THR, SV, KN, RS, and JTS) and the Department of Public Health and General Practice (THR and J...

摘要：-carotene were recently reported to enhance iron absorption by counteracting the inhibitory effect of phytic acid in cereal-based meals and of polyphenol-containing beverages on nonheme-iron absorp...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Free radicals in cigarette smoke may cause oxidative damage to macromolecules, contributing to cardiovascular diseases and cancer。 Decreased plasma antioxidant concentrations m...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Muscle tissue from various sources is known to promote nonheme-iron absorption。 However, systematic studies of the dose dependency of this effect of meat on iron absorption fro...

摘要：ABSTRACTBackground: Low serum ubiquinone-10 concentrations have been described in phenylketonuric patients fed natural-protein-restricted diets。 Objective: We evaluated the relation between low se...

摘要：Objective: We used a mini-analysis system to quantitate antibody titers and evaluate the sera of 200 Kenyan schoolchildren for antibodies to Helicobacter pylori [isotypes of immunoglobulins A (IgA)...