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{"title":"Effect of Afghan Chehelghoza(Pinus gerardiana L.) on SpermParameters of Male Rats","authors":"S. Safari, M. Yousefi, A. Khawari, Meysam Sajjadi, Mohammad Latif Nazari, A. Alipour, M. Salehi, Y. Mousavi","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000237","url":null,"abstract":"Infertility has become one of the controversial issues recently that are affected by environmental factors. Of the effective factors in this regard is the plants and its derivatives that each of them has variable effects. The plants with the special chemical substance such as phytosterols could be significantly effective. Chehelghoza is one of the Afghan native plants that contain a special phytosterol named beta sitosterol (BS) that have been proved to decrease the fertility. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats from an inbreed colony were selected. Thirty-two male rats were randomly divided into four groups. Rats in groups 1, 2, 3 received 5, 25, and 50 percent Chehelghoza in their daily food, respectively for 14 days. Rats in group 4 (as the control) received their daily food without Chehelghoza for 14 days. The result of our study showed that different doses of Chehelghoza significantly decrease the sperm motility, sperm count, and TG (Triglyceride) plasma levels. We consider that Chehelghoza containing phytosterol can reduce male fertility factors.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133949410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using an Infant Child Feeding Index to Assess Nutritional Status in Children under 5 Years Living in Rural Area, Ferlo, Senegal","authors":"N. Sougou, Sougou As, J. Diouf, A. Faye, G. Boetch, O. LeyeMm¹Bassoum, M. Diongue, I. Seck, A. Tal-Dia","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000232","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: The complementary diet of young children breastfed constitutes one of the main determinants of their health in the developing world. The use of composite dietary indicators has long been used and described in the literature. In a context of food insecurity, these indicators could be used to improve the nutritional status of children. The main of this study is to study the use of a composite index of food, the Infant Child Feeding index (ICFI) comparing it with the food practices and modalities of anthropometric growth in children living in semi-arid Sahel rural country part in Senegal. Materials and methods: We made a transversal study with analytical aim in May 2017 in Widou Thiengholi. The sampling was carried out according to the Schwartz formula with the basis of calculation the malnutrition rate in Linguere (12.3% according to SMART 2012). Thus, 170 children were included in the study. Data analysis was done using R studio version 3.1.3. The anthropometric indicators were analysed using the WHO anthro software. ICFI was calculated using the following components: (1) breastfeeding, (2) dietary diversity, (3) consumption Foods rich in certain micronutrients and (4) frequency of meals. ICFI was compared with food practices and anthropometric indicators. Results: The prevalence of malnutrition, taking into account anthropometric indicators compared to international standards (WHO), is for acute malnutrition (Weight-for-Lenght) of 10%, for wasting (Weight-for-Age) 15.9%, for stunting (Length-for- Age) 15.3%. Regarding breastfeeding, 37% of the children had a delay in breastfeeding. The ICFI score mean in our study was 4.31 ± 1.15. Ninety-two percent (92.9%) of children had a low ICFI. A Low ICFI reflects dietary diversity of children aged 9-11 months (OR=55.71 [9.16-339.16]) and children aged 24-59 months (0.1 [0.02-0.39]). Some socio-economic determinants as (number of people living in the household is more than 15) was linked with low ICFI (4.58 [1.31-15.95]).ICFI was associated with underweight (WLZ) p=0.03.The specificity (ability for ICFI to recognize normal children were range from 31.2% to 71.2. However sensibility of ICFI is highest for WLZ, specificity is highest for WAZ. The findings of this study show that ICFI is better to predict children suffering of acute malnutrition i.e. underweight (WLZ) with a sensibility of 91.7%. Conclusion: This study shows that ICFI can address the issues of for child feeding practices in African rural area. The ICFI in food insecure area can be a good tool for predict acute malnutrition in a context of fighting against malnutrition.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"285 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122975855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CD36 Gene Expression Inducedby Fish Oil in Abdominal AdiposeTissue of Rats with MetabolicSyndrome","authors":"Ofelia Angulo Guerrero, A. Alex, E. Aguilera, Rodolfo Quintana Castro, R. Ros","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000220","url":null,"abstract":"CD36 Gene Expression Induced by Fish Oil in Abdominal Adipose Tissue of Rats with Metabolic Syndrome \u0000Introduction: CD36 is a ubiquitously expressed transmembrane glycoprotein primarily localized in tissues with high levels of fatty acid oxidation. According to its broad binding specificity and signal transduction capabilities, CD36 is thought to be involved in several physiological and pathological events related to metabolic syndrome, which underlies diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, major causes of morbidity and mortality in most of the world. Objective and Method: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dietary fish oil (n-3 PUFAs) administration on adipose tissue CD36 mRNA expression levels in rats with metabolic syndrome induced by 30% sucrose administration in drinking water during 21 weeks. Results and Discussion: After dietary fish oil administration (6 weeks), lower blood pressure and serum concentrations of insulin, non-esterified fatty acids, triacylglycerols and HOMA-IR index were observed, in combination with increased expression levels of CD36 in adipose tissue which would result in enhanced fatty acids uptake, storage and oxidation and the consequent increase in insulin sensitivity. Conclusion: our results show that the overexpression of CD36 in adipocytes could be one of the mechanisms by which fish oil is beneficial to ameliorate metabolic syndrome, through the modulation of fatty acids metabolism.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"514 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116379569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimization of the Technology of Chlorogenic Acid Extraction from Yacon (Smallanthus Sonchifolius) using Box-Behnken Design","authors":"Songshan Qiu, Cuicui Jiang, Yaou-Huei Huang, Rujin Zhou","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000223","url":null,"abstract":"Optimization of the Technology of Chlorogenic Acid Extraction from Yacon (Smallanthus Sonchifolius) using Box-Behnken Design \u0000In order to further enhance the value of comprehensive utilization, soxhlet extraction of chlorogenic acid (CGA) from yacon was studied in this paper. Firstly, single factor experiment provided the extraction effects of three main parameters of soxhlet extraction process involving syphon time, ethanol concentration and liquid-solid rate and obtained preliminary process parameters for higher extraction rate; furthermore, Box-Behnken design was applied to obtain the three optimal parameters of extraction process and formulate a regression model fitting process parameters and extraction rate. Results showed that the optimal soxhlet extraction process was as follows: syphon times of 5, ethanol concentration of 50% and liquid-solid rate of 15 mL/g, and the predicted extraction rate was 5.21%. In the optimal process actual extraction rate was 5.22%, which accorded well with the predicted value of the model. The analysis of regression model revealed that the effect of syphon time, ethanol concentration and liquid-solid rate each other was significant, especially the interaction of ethanol concentration and liquid-solid rate was extremely significant. To sum up, response surface methodology can be applied to the optimization of soxhlet extraction process of CGA in yacon, and the optimal soxhlet extraction process is advisable to extract CGA in yanco with high extraction rate and further to enlighten industry production and market-oriented utilization of CGA.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132595052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distal Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Causing Gastric Outlet Obstruction","authors":"M. Gravito-Soares, E. Gravito-Soares, N. Almeida, L. Tomé","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000233","url":null,"abstract":"An 80-year-old woman has been carrying percutaneous endoscopy gastrostomy (PEG) 20Fr for 3 years due to post-stroke dysphagia. She complains of 2 months of vomiting and recurrent abdominal pain. Analyses were unremarkable. Plain abdominal X-ray revealed hidroaereal levels and distention of the bowel loops. Abdominal CT showed concentric thickening of the antrum of oedematous nature, the PEG balloon at the duodenum first portion without pneumoperitoneum (Figure 1). The PEG was functional with easy rotation, but only with possible traction up to the 7 cm mark. After gastric content aspiration, the esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed duodenal migration of the PEG balloon causing gastric drainage obstruction (Figure 2) and duodenal bulb erosions by PEG balloon trauma. The PEG tube was repositioned at the level of the gastrocutaneous fistula after deflation of the balloon (Figure 3A) and then reinflated with 20 mL of distilled water. Additionally, a second external fixator was placed 3.5cm from the anterior abdominal wall to avoid recurrence of this complication (Figure 3B). No PEG migration recurrence was verified during 11 months of follow-up.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130435007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Serum Albumin Levels in BreastCancer: Correlation with OverallSurvival","authors":"R. Kaur, Rubal, M. Dhiman, Rajesh Vashitstha, A. Munshi","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000239","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Albumin in an important biomarker that indicates malnutrition as well as inflammation. The aim of the study was to evaluate the albumin levels in breast cancer patients and its association with overall survival among breast cancer patients of Malwa region of Punjab. Material and methods: The study was planned in Malwa region of Punjab. Sampling was done from Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital and Max Hospital. The estimation of albumin levels was done at Central University of Punjab. 250 patients with breast cancer and 250 age and sex matched controls were involved in the study. Albumin levels were estimated using fully automated bio analyzer Erba 200. Follow-up interviews were conducted at an interval of 3, 6, 12 and 15 months to determine the outcome among breast cancer patients. Results: Low levels of albumin was found among the diseased in comparison with controls (p 3.5 g/dl) are associated significantly with increased overall survival among breast cancer patients. Albumin estimation may be a simple and inexpensive tool for the risk assessment and outcome of the disease in Malwa region of Punjab where the incidence of breast cancer is reported to be very high.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"20 16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116717920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prevalence of Overweight andEating Disorder Risk of HospitalNight Staff at Rouen UniversityHospital","authors":"L. Rollin, E. Pascal, S. Grigioni, P. Déchelotte, J. Gehanno, V. Folope","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000238","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Night shift work can disturb the biological rhythm of employees and can lead to sleep digestive and nutritional disorders as well as onset of overweight. We studied the prevalence of nutritional disorders among the night shift staff of a university hospital. Methods: Staff were proposed an anonymous questionnaire including items on: socio-demographics, physical activity, nutrition (BMI, snacking, hyperphagia, weight change with duration of night shift and screening risk of eating disorder (ED) with F-SCOFF questionnaire); sleepiness (EPWORTH questionnaire); and smoking status. Results: Four hundred and nineteen (57.4%) night shift workers answered the questionnaire. More 90% were women and nearly half of them were nurses (47%). One hundred and forty-six (36.6%) had weight excess and 15.8% (n=66) were suspected to have an ED. One out of five workers (16.9%, n=70) had an EPWORTH score in with risk of hypersomnia. Multivariable logistic regression analysis found factors significantly associated with suspected ED: high EPWORTH score (aOR=3.94, 95% CI [1.91, 8.13]), weight gain in night staff (aOR=3.40, 95% CI [1.60, 7.21]), overweight (aOR=2.04, 95% CI [1.06-3.94]), dieting (aOR=3.38, 95% CI [1.74, 6.55]), and hyperphagia (aOR=3.74, 95% CI [1.55, 9.00]). At least one third of workers were interested in dietary counseling (n=38.2%). Conclusion: Overweight and ED are frequent in night shift workers, which underlines the need for specialized intervention.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126397490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris) Treatments Effect on Starch Digestible Fractions and Consumer Acceptability in the Production of Bean Wheat Cookies","authors":"A. Leiva, Elba María Cubero Castillo, Yury Reyes Cruz","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000234","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) treatment (raw bean flour, RBF, soaked bean gruel, SBG, and soaked and cooked bean paste, SCBP) in wheat composite cookie production on starch digestibility and consumer acceptability was evaluated. Cookies were prepared by substituting 50% of wheat flour by beans (dry weight basis). Control cookie was 100% wheat. More than 80% of trypsin inhibitor and 90% of alfa-amylase activity was destroyed in all bean cookies. Cookies prepared with RBF had the highest value for slow digestible starch (SDS) and resistant starch (RS) (p<0.05). The rest of bean cookies have similar amounts for SCBP whereas cookies prepared with SCB had the lowest RS value (p<0.05). Consumer acceptability showed that bean cookies were accepted by 68% of consumers and RBF cookies shows the highest level of acceptance. Raw bean flour can be used to increase RS and SDS in composite flour cookies.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121090407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effect of Postharvest UV-C Treatment and Associated with Different Storage Conditions on the Quality of Tahitian Limes (Citrus latifolia)","authors":"P. Pristijono, M. Bowyer, C. Scarlett, Q. Vuong, C. Stathopoulos, J. Golding","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000230","url":null,"abstract":"Tahitian limes (Citrus latifolia) were exposed to 0 and 7.2 kJm-2 UV-C. After treatments, it was stored for 28 days in air at 20°C, 80% RH (control) and in air containing <0.005 or 0.1 μL.L−1 ethylene at 20°C and 100% RH. Weight loss, peel colour, calyx abscission, ethylene production, respiration rate, soluble solids content (SSC), titratable acidity (TA) and acceptability index were assessed. The UV-C light treatment  significantly affected the quality of lime during storage. UV-C treatment significantly affected peel degreening at 20°C in all storage conditions, whereas treated limes showed significantly lower in peel degreening than the control. These effects reduced over the storage time, with the exception of fruits stored in <0.005 μL.L-1 ethylene which still produced a significantly higher in Hue value after 21 days storage relative to the control. UV-C treatment affected ethylene production during storage under all storage conditions. This effect also diminished with storage time. UV-C treatment did not affect the respiration rate, SSC or TA for all storage conditions. The UV-C treated limes had higher acceptability index than untreated limes up to 14 days storage at 20°C. Storage conditions significantly affected ethylene production, with limes that stored in air exhibiting higher ethylene production than fruits stored in the <0.005 or 0.1 μL.L-1 ethylene atmosphere. Storage conditions also significantly affected weight loss, with fruits stored in air showing greater weight loss compared to the other storage conditions. The results suggest that a pre-storage UV-C treatment, followed by storage in less than 0.1 μL.L-1 ethylene atmosphere improves the quality of limes postharvest.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115389327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Technology to Enhance Self-Regulation of Eating Behavior","authors":"A. Menzie, K. Rune, Marcus Mueller, G. Lovell","doi":"10.4172/2324-9323.1000229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9323.1000229","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the current study, derived from Goal Conflict and Duel Process theories, was to investigate if self-regulation in restrained eaters can be enhanced by strengthening the link between desired food stimuli and eating control goal. An iPhone app, employed to prime eating control goals, was utilized to improve eating self-regulation in restrained eaters. During a 7-day intervention, 20 restrained eaters had access to randomly activated, personalized eating control reminders on their iPhone. Self-regulation efficacy, eating behavior (unhealthy food serving sizes and loss of control over eating), and eating efficacy were assessed pre and post intervention. Results suggest that the reminder significantly improved self-regulation behavior (p<.05) and eating-efficacy beliefs (p<.05) in restrained eaters. However, no significant improvements were found for unhealthy food serving sizes and loss of control over eating behavior. Future studies should explore if self-regulation and eating-efficacy translate into decreased serving sizes and loss of eating control longer-term.","PeriodicalId":417095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129218249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}