Nutrition - Science topic

Dear Radhika Jain ,

I think you rightfully wondered if this is a predatory business. These people are discussed on various occasions here on RG, have a look at: https://www.researchgate.net/post/International_Conference_on_Microbiology_Infectious_Diseases Here I indicated numerous red flags:

-They are mentioned in the list of questionable conferences https://libguides.caltech.edu/c.php?g=512665&p=3503029

-The address is suspect (virtual offices) and most likely misleadingly suggesting UK origin https://www.abcn.com/offices-london-city--lombard-street-2533

-Even if the address is legit it looks like they are not even registered here https://suite.endole.co.uk/explorer/postcode/ec3v-9hd

And I would like to add that the name used looks fake to me (Charlie does not seem a real last name to me). See for more good observations why to avoid this one in the given link.

Best regards.

Cristina Chinea Montesdeoca are you currently living in the UK?

Hello Dr. Mohammad Zahir Ullah

That was actually really hard! A lot of journals on this topic charge for submission and publication.

I hope these are ok - sometimes it was not really totally clear it was free but it sounds like it. I suggest you email the office(s) to confirm.

- Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics

- Human Nutrition and Metabolism

- Clinical Nutrition

Arbind K. Choudhary, again thank you very much for your valuable support and blessings.

With regards

Change in testosterone level alone can not be consider as a strong criteria for determining the quality of male brood fish. The level of related hormones including estradiol-testosterone ratio, gonad weight, milt quality, sperm count and motility together can be considered as strong criteria.

thank you so much dear Mr. Hamid.

If it's BMI for 7th graders, the index must be standardized by norms. Researchers tend to use BMI z-score using the CDC norms (google search BMIz CDC), but there are other standards as well (WHO, IOFT, etc.). BMI z-score is age and gender adjusted. Note, it's not simple standardization as the z-score is based on the growth trajectories. Typically, you need to run a SAS macro to compute BMI z-scores, but a Canadian Pediatric Group has developed a shiny app to compute these scores for you. (https://cpeg-gcep.shinyapps.io/who2007_cpeg/ ; they have CDC options as well). If you are studying nutrition or feeding 'habits', I assume you have repeated observations. In this case, you would run linear mixed effect model adjusting for baseline BMI and other factors. (google search for LME or analysis of repeated observation). Depends on how data were collected, things can be quite complicated. I encourage you to consult with a biostatistician for further guidance.

Dear Hind,

Do you mean you are looking for a dietary assessment tool in which you can compare your data with recommended intake per nutrient? If so, I think you should check WHO for recommendations or other national guidelines.

The dietary assessment tools that I can think of are mostly used to give the mean nutritional values of food products.

Kind regards,

Keshia

I am not sure but very difficult, due to different indicators for Multi dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) such as health (Nutrition and child mortality rate), education, living standards and other important parameters.

Please also look at following link:

https://indicators.report › indicators

3. Multidimensional Poverty Index - Indicators and a Monitoring.

Dear Dr Mekonnen Tilahun,

I found this interesting document (in attached) that may actually help you in your research.

Best wishes,

Sabri

Dear Dr. Bulcsu Szekely

This research survey is about all kinds of athletes and sports players including football players. It would be really great if you participate in this research.

Best Regards

Hello dear colleague.

A very interesting study. I can join.

I have experience in questioning student-athletes.

As well as the correction of their nutrition in order to increase immunity and endurance.

I would be happy to work together.

Hi Micha

As it happens. Am grateful for any good reference and have now already collected quite a bit. Have a good time in England. We will have a Zoom meeting in early April. Until then all the best.

Best Kurt

Good day Yovan Hendriek ,

Please find attached a systematic and comparative review of guidelines of nutrition in pregnancy. Hope they will be added value for your literature review.

Healthy plant-based foods may lower risk and severity of COVID-19.

EVIDENCE

And Epigenetics

Evidence:

Yes I think that

thank you, dear Shin Murakami for your sugession

Dear Dr Ted J Strauss . See the following useful link: https://blogs.oncolink.org/2013/08/web-sites-for-reliable-health-and-nutrition-information/

many thanks for your fit response.

Depends on the country and culture. Unlikely in Brazil. Most likely in China.

I am delighted to join this project. All the best.

Dear David Gamero del Castillo

You can use those software which are considered as the top 3 in nutrition software:

Nutrium

DietMaster Pro

Evolution Nutrition

Best regards,

Ismail

Studies have found links between low levels of certain nutrients — such as folate, magnesium, iron, zinc, and vitamins B6, B12, and D — and worsening mood, feelings of anxiety, and risk of depression. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/nutrition-and-mental-health-is-there-a-link

TRIPHALA - An excellent ayurvedic colon cleaner manufactured in India .

More ultra-processed foods in the diet associates with higher risks of obesity, heart disease and stroke, type-2 diabetes, cancer, frailty, depression and death. These harms can be caused by the foods' poor nutritional profile, as many are high in added sugars, salt and trans-fats. https://theconversation.com/the-rise-of-ultra-processed-foods-and-why-theyre-really-bad-for-our-health-140537

Good morning, I am a fellow nutritionist independent researcher, I was also looking for the exact same thing, I accede to your question and call for help. Thank you.

This question is interesting but does not account the wide range of variation within both groups of organic resources or as I prefer feedstocks for vermicomposting. Please don't fall into the trap of prejudging resources. There's no black or white if it comes to vermicomposting organic resources.

MyNoke has vermicomposted 1 million t of organic waste in New Zealand form various industries (pulpmill solids, DAF, AS, paunch, wood ash, ...), agriculture, sewage sludge, lake weeds etc.

In both groups you will find extremely 'clean' and 'contaminated' feedstocks. E.g. some paper mills produce a very clean fibre which is cleaner than cardboard (no ink or glues), same applies to milk sludges. On the other side there are some 'agri-wastes, that are high in copper, zinc, pharmaceuticals, and extremely high in ammonia, which makes it difficulty to vermicompost these without harming worm population or leaching of N.

The pH of 'industrial' wastes varies form extreme alkaline to acidic, too.

Even lake weeds can be highly contaminated, e.g. if from geothermal areas.

Please! Do not generalise and judge on 'feedstocks' by their origin.

We are vermicomposting sewage sludge / biosolids which are slightly elevated in metals and finding biosolids with metal concentrations well below soil limits. So even biosolids are different from source to source or WWTP to WWTP.

My advise: be open minded. Do your homework and test and review each source of feedstock for your worms individual. Combine organic waste where possible. Fibre (carbon source) + nutrient + pH buffer. Think of your own dinner where you might have a carbon source, vegetables, fruits ... worms will enjoy a balanced feedstock, too.

Industrial organic by-products are often very consistent and it is much easier to standardise the mixing ratios. Agricultural organic wastes can vary making it more difficulty.

Some agricultural wastes don't require vermicomposting and can be applied to crops and pasture beneficially without costly vermicomposting. Whereas industrial organic by-products often require stabilisation such as through vermicomposting.

Kind regards

Michael

Hello Dr Chinaza Godswill Awuchi,

There are a lot of benefit in eating Garlic, so in regards to the immune system, Garlic provides an important support to Immune functions by stimulating macrophages, lymphocytes, NK cells, and eosinophils activities, that's why Garlic is considered a natural antiseptic and antiviral agent. Garlic has also a remarkable antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties.

Stay safe,

Sabri

You could use linear mixed models with fixed and random effects, which allows handling more than one group and the covariance.

Thanks a lot, Dr. Martin Hofmeister Yes, a number of studies are pooled on the benefits of sticking to a Mediterranean-style diet to stave off brain decline. Most of the studies focused on the overall benefits of the diet, but one study delved into the specific ingredients that help. Harvard Health cited a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health that evaluated the lifestyles of more than 7,750 participants and followed them for five to 10 years. They used this data to identify the dietary factors that were most important in reducing the risk of cognitive impairment, as well as the dietary factors that were most important in reducing the risk of cognitive decline. Harvard Health reported that fish was the “most important dietary factor” in reducing the risk of cognitive impairment. https://middleeast.in-24.com/News/162859.html

We are so grateful for sharing these valuable and informative links about this thread...My sincere gratitude, Doctor.

Thanks Bjogaraju, Nobari, and Sinan for your response. I will certainly use the information you provided. @

Yes, we can consider, both together. In a long-term emotional state, like continuous anxiety, stress, etc., individuals tend to overeat or undereat. In Both conditions; overnutrition or undernutrition, the nutritional status of the body suffers which can predispose to metabolic diseases in the future.

Hello,

With my exp in the field of Nutrition, I propose an age group of 18 years and above

There are many types of diets used to clean toxins from the body, including the "juice diet," which includes drinking fruit and vegetable juices. Besides the different diets that contain natural and good ingredients that help our bodies get rid of toxins. Eating organic foods helps reduce the amount of chemicals in the body. It is reported that the "juices diet" provides nutrients and antioxidants as well as vitamins, which the body needs to cleanse toxins. It also includes foods rich in fiber and water, which are used to remove toxins from the body, by increasing the frequency of urination and defecation.

BMR and BMI are different but are both important indicators of health especially in the days we are living of diseases of lifestyle.

Vitamin D deficiency is linked to increased insulin resistance

Start with the existing SPHERE standards, add in appropriate 'HIV protocols relating to nutrition', and have a look at this paper:

Hope that helps.

Dear Narmada Gamage here is another potentially useful article particularly with respect to the situation in Sri Lanka:

This paper is freely available as public full text.

Also please see the following potentially useful review article:

(see attached pdf file)

When our interest is both crop nutrition as well as environmental pollution, it seems the loss of applied N via nitrate leaching is more important and it is also the most studied N loss pathway. However, in recent years, due to increased emphasis on climate change-related issues, interest in the loss of N2O from agricultural soils is increasing rapidly. As a consequence, a large number of studies on N2O emissions are appearing these days.

There will be more reducing sugars readily interact with amino acids and give rise to Maillard reaction products, which lead to progressive browning and aroma formation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/reducing-sugars

Check https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/11/4356/pdf

And https://www.who.int/nutrition/global-target-2025/discussion-paper-extension-targets-2030.pdf

Also check https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.05.20091066v1.full.pdf

Also check https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249667511_Advantages_and_Limitations_on_Processing_Foods_by_UV_Light

You may refer to this study

Yes, I can confirm that bamboo sprouts are tasty. I ate bamboo sprouts as a side dish in various dishes, most recently in broth with soy noodles.

Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Check https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-122-1-137

Also check https://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures-in-statistics-2/understanding-t-tests-t-values-and-t-distributions?hs_amp=true

The medical literature covers ketogenic dietary treatments, while researchers probe the mechanisms whereby ketosis supports compromised metabolism. For example, on the one hand, according to the Glut 1 Foundation, there is currently no cure for Glucose 1 Transporter Deficiency: "treatment is aimed at controlling symptoms … the current standard of care is the ketogenic diet" while, on the other hand, there is "breaking news"- not yet peer-reviewed - of ketogenesis and COVID (see Ryu S. "Ketogenesis restrains aging-induced exacerbation of COVID in a mouse model." htps://www.biorxiv.)

Yes, I believe in the Holy Qur’an and what is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an is a tribute to these two plants, but with regard to mixing one fig with 7 olives, it is not mentioned in the Holy Qur’an. The site I mentioned did not mention the source of this information, and I searched for its source and did not find it. If I knew the source of the information or research, please send it to me.

And thank you very much Chinaza Godswill Awuchi

may be the nutritionist can be help to formulated best formula for optimize the immune system.

Kindly check https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4064678/

Lemon juice

Steaming

Also check https://www.almanac.com/plant/tulips?amp

Journal of Nanomedicine is an open source , nno APC Journal in this field.

May be , there are other free Journals.

Thanks

N Das

The most common essential oils used in beekeeping are lemongrass, spearmint and thyme (thymol oil). Other oils such as wintergreen, eucalyptus (eucalyptol), peppermint, menthol, and tea tree oil are also used in some formulations and included here. https://surrybeekeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/EssentialOilsInBeekeeping161113.pdf

applied, unapplied, Economically feasible, Not economically feasible,

The https://www.scimagojr.com site of Emad Kamil Hussein has some good information on rankings of journals, but they may have high costs and after doing a search you will need to click on journal and then on that page you will find a link to the website. And then you need to find out about publications costs. A lot of effort.

More important is what people should not eat in osteoporosis - caffeinated beverages, coffee, carbonated beverages, wine, pickles, lemons, vinegar, restriction of meat and offal, sauces, pomegranate, preservatives, acidic drugs such as aspirin and NSAIDs .

The potassium levels were a little higher than normal as many antioxidant foods have a higher level in them, but insufficient to take me that high as I was using supplements that did not contain potassium. Previous levels were high but safe around 4.2 to 4.4. I do not have the capability to measure exact intake. The high measure could also be from a lab error by damaging cells so I am testing again tomorrow.

I do have a concern though about having over antioxidant intake as I did not realise that was a problem. I am a psychologist and trying to put something together but I did not realise, naivety to be honest, that high intake of something that nutritionally has good affects but negative ones as well. I am also learning of other potential issues with kidneys and thyroids for instance.

I am now giving myself more questions than answers, which is not a bad thing at all, but something I thought was relatively easy, I think is going to very complex with a lot over my head.

I will suggest a continued balance of nutrients but a slight increase in carbs and quality oils for heat.

Hi Israel,

The iDATA (https://prevention.cancer.gov/research-groups/biometry/interactive-diet-and-activity) study can be obtained.

Also check https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13668-020-00318-0

Also check https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283724264_Effect_of_different_drying_temperatures_on_the_nutritional_quality_of_edible_wild_mushroom_Volvariella_volvacea_obtained_nearby_forest_areas

Current Dietary Fat Intake Recommendations for Adults by WHO (Fats and fatty acids in human nutrition Report of an expert consultation. FAO Food Nutr Pap. 2010;91) -

Total: 20-35%, Saturated: <10%, Trans: <1%, n-6 PUFA: 2.5-9%, n-3 PUFA: 0.5-2%.

Lichtenstein & Van Horn (1998) defined "a very low fat diet is defined as one in which ≤15% of total calories are derived from fat (33 g for a 2000-calorie diet, 50 g for a 3000-calorie diet) with fat calories distributed approximately equally among saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Approximately 15% of total daily calories consumed should be derived from protein and ≥70% from carbohydrates."

In contrast, at this time, no health benefits and possible harmful effects can be predicted from adherence to very low fat diets in certain subgroups. In addition to young children, the elderly, pregnant women, and persons with eating disorders should not attempt a very low fat diet. Persons with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, elevated TG levels, and carbohydrate malabsorption illnesses should also avoid such a diet.

Dear Amro Abdelazez ,

The following paragraph on peer review for the Journal of Food Science indicates that the most time-consuming segment between the time a paper is submitted and final publication is in the evaluation process, which may require the author to revise the paper and then re-submit it, in which case, the amount of time the author would take to revise the paper should be taken into account when you are trying to figure out how long it takes for a paper to be published:

"All submitted manuscripts are screened by the section’s Scientific Editor for importance, interest to subscribers, substance, appropriateness for the journal, and general scientific quality. Those failing to meet current standards are rejected by the Scientific Editor without further review. Those manuscripts meeting these initial standards are sent to an Associate Editor who assigns referees. Author identities are disclosed to the referees, but referee identities are not disclosed to the author. When the initial review is complete, the Associate Editor will send you the referees’ suggestions along with his or her suggestions. You are expected to respond to all suggestions either by making appropriate revisions or stating why the suggestions are unreasonable. The Associate Editor will consider your revisions and provide the Scientific Editor with a recommendation to accept, revise, or reject your manuscript. If a second revision of a manuscript is still not satisfactory, it may be rejected (but may thereafter re-enter the peer review process if sufficiently updated and revised). You will then be informed by the Scientific Editor of the final decision."

Source: Website for the Journal of Food Science, accessed on October 20, 2020

For some reason this just popped up on my RG - Flor Henderson -..- I do not have much direct help, but will suggest some ethnobotanical work by James Duke of the USDA who did some work in the Peruvian Amazon with a shaman (I met them near the Napo River in the mid 90's. I have been wanting to find out more about the shaman as I did get some info I want to follow up on.

Regarding food, you may want to focus on one of the regions of Peru. The coastal ceviche is some of the best in Latin America. The Lacuma fruit is prized by many in the mountains. And the amazonian 'catfish' were wonderful for eating (my students did not know they were eating fish). One of my favorite desserts are Alfajores, but those I bought Saturday did not even make it to Sunday with my boys being here. Hope your work is going well!

Also check https://www.luroufan777.com/sites/default/files/downloads/report/Baseline-Report-Mixed-Methods-Cluster-RCT-of-eSchool-360-Model-in-Rural-Zambia-April-2018.pdf

Cocoa powders may contain cadmium, a toxic heavy metal and probable carcinogen, found naturally in high levels in the soil of some regions of cocoa-producing countries. The European Union has imposed a limit (as of 1 January 2019) for cadmium in cocoa powder of 0.6 µg per gram of cocoa powder and 0.8 µg per gram for chocolate with ≥ 50% total dry cocoa solids. In Canada, a daily serving of a natural health product must contain no more than 6 µg of cadmium for an individual weighing 150 pounds (68 kg) and 3 µg for a 75 lb (34 kg) individual. While the US government has not set a limit for cadmium in foods or health products, the state of California has established a maximum allowable daily level of oral cadmium exposure of 4.1 µg and requires products containing more than this amount per daily serving to bear a warning on the label. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_solids

Anthropometric assessment

Biochemical methods

Clinical assessment or examination

Dietary assessment or dietary methods

Excellent answers by my dear colleagues; I should add: 1- liver disease can lead to serious health problems. But research shows that eating yogurt & 2- keep the liver healthy as the medicine for body!

Multiple Normal distribution curves in same plot - https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/141649-plot-multiple-normal-distributions-on-a-single-figure-using-normspec