Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510009
Cross-Sectional Exploration on Feeding Practices of Feeders towards Preschoolers' Picky Eating Behaviors
Louisa Ming Yan Chung and Shirley Siu Ming Fong
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: November 14, 2015
Picky eating is quite common among preschoolers, which may lead to imbalanced diet. Picky eating behavior among preschoolers was found associated with feeding style. With the complex family structure of 2-career parents in Hong Kong and unique authoritarian Chinese feeding style, this study aimed to explore the differences in feeding practices among different preschoolers' feeding persons and to investigate if preschoolers' picky eating showed differences if they are fed by different feeding per...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510007
The Importance of Nutritional Control and Diet Care in Huntington's Disease
Nieves Gonzalez
Article Type: Editorial | First Published: September 28, 2015
The first descriptions of chorea, from the Greek word 'dance', date back to the middle ages. The condition 'Saint Vitus dance' was initially considered a curse, and was named so, because afflicted individuals were 'cured' when they touched churches, which enshrined Saint Vitus relics. In 1872, Dr. George Huntington published a report entitled 'On chorea', where he characterized the Huntington's disease (HD) as a genetic condition, which specifically causes degeneration in neurons of the striatum...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510006
Active Hexose Correlated Compound Activates Immune Function to Decrease Chlamydia trachomatis Shedding in a Murine Stress Model
Tesfaye Belay, Chih-lung Fu and Anthony Woart
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: September 15, 2015
A cold-induced stress mouse model for investigating chlamydia genital infection and immune response analysis was established in our laboratory. Previous results showed that cold-induced stress results in suppression of the immune response and increased intensity of chlamydia genital infection in the mouse model. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the potential therapeutic value of active hexose correlated compound (AHCC) against chlamydia genital infection in mice. AHCC is an extra...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510005
Should We Use Various Obesity Measures Interchangeably?
Shuman Yang
Article Type: Short Note | First Published: August 18, 2015
In clinical setting or clinical research studies, convenient obesity measures such as body weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) are commonly used to quantify obesity status of patients or research participants. Although these obesity data are easy and cheap to collect, they may have problems as compared to other obesity measures....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510004
Differences in Dietary Components and Oxidative Stress Markers between Cervical Cancer Patients and Matched Controls
Gabriela Gutierrez-Salmean, Mayra Acosta, Fabiola Arellano, Karolina Alvarez Altamirano, Veronica Ruiz-Manon, Guillermo M Ceballos-Reyes and Vanessa Fuchs Tarlovsky
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: July 03, 2015
Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among women in developing countries. Diet has been suggested to play an important role in the pathophysiology of malignant tumors as an imbalance between dietary antioxidant intake and free radical production-from the inflammatory state results in oxidative stress, which may contribute to both initiation and progression of carcinogenesis. The aims of the present study were to assess the difference regarding dietary intake and oxidative stress plasmatic...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510003
Insulin Resistance and Diet Care
Jun Kobayashi
Article Type: Editorial | First Published: March 02, 2015
During human evolution, insulin signaling developed to ensure normal homeostasis to redirect nutrients to pivotal organs under critical conditions such as starvation, infection, and trauma. However, in the modern era, insulin signaling is often counter productive due to the current obesogenic environment, resulting in insulin resistance....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510002
Inaugural Editorial - Journal of Nutritional Medicine and Diet Care
Basil Aboul-Enein
Article Type: Editorial | First Published: February 17, 2015
It is with profound pleasure that I welcome readers, reviewers, editors, and authors to this inaugural issue of the Journal of Nutritional Medicine and Diet Care (JNMDC). The Journal of Nutritional Medicine and Diet Care is an open access, peer reviewed, scientific journal that provides rapid dissemination of research in all areas of human and animal nutrition, dietetic practice and public health nutrition, dietary interventions, nutrigenomics, molecular nutrition, and other related topics of in...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3278.1510001
Nutritional Medicine and Diet Care
Ross Stewart Grant
Article Type: Editorial | First Published: February 16, 2015
A number of previously well-established fundamentals to nutritional health have been challenged in recent times. The merits of the well balanced low fat diet, built on whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and grains with restricted use of meats and dairy is now being vigorously debated by those advocating various alternatives including; the no grain Paleolithic diet or the high meat protein Atkins diet, or the high fat (low omega-3) Weston Price diet....
