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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Other Nutrition"”.
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Translation of a Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument for Use in the Latino Population of Greater Kansas City
Introduction: An individual’s degree of nutrition literacy impacts their diet quality and overall health. Determining an individual’s or a population’s nutrition literacy can help registered dietitians and other nutrition experts tailor educational programs and materials to meet the educational …
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Two essays on stress and obesity: household and regional perspectives
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest nutritional assistance program addressing food insecurity in the United States. Due to the program’s reach, SNAP has been called to address other nutrition-related challenges facing low-income Americans including childhood obesity. …
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Integration of food consumption and nutrition considerations into the RIARS farming systems research and extension project in the Bicol region of the Philippines
… the research was to describe the relationship of nutrition/consumption to agricultural production and related areas in the diagnosis and preliminary design of project activities and to describe the contributions of a nutrition focus to problem identification, grouping and treatment selection …
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The effectiveness of computer-aided feedback on nutrition-related practices of EFNEP homemakers
… with homemakers in Virginia's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). The FBC was designed to measure nutrition-related practices that are taught in EFNEP, but cannot be measured by the 24-hour recall. During development, 20 EFNEP paraprofessionals in Virginia and 20 randomly …
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Optimizing Micronutrient Intake of Lactating Women in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Through Increased Wild Edible Plant Consumption
… negatively impacts the health of both the mother and infant. Increasing consumption of wild edible plants has been recommended to combat these deficiencies, but information has not yet been provided on which types of wild plants should be eaten or in what quantity. The objective of this …
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The Impact of a Fruit and Vegetable Intervention on School Cafeteria Fruit and Vegetable Selection and Consumption in a Rural, Appalachian Mississippi Elementary School
… National School Lunch Program meal pattern and nutrition standards for participating schools include increased fruits and vegetables, compared to previous standards. Using a pretest-posttest design, this study examined the effect of a fruit and vegetable intervention on fruit and vegetable food …
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Characterization of Free Oxylipins in Extracellular Vesicles from Bovine Milk
… This knowledge may inform future infant nutrition initiatives using EVs as bioactives.</p>
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Comparative Analysis of Body Composition and Reference Values of Visceral Adipose Tissues in Various American Collegiate Sports
… BC assessments helps gauge training and nutrition programs to see if they are adequately meeting the athlete’s needs to improve performance. Annual Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scans before the start of an athlete’s season can help identify an athlete’s preparedness or health …
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Food Insecurity and Produce Behaviors of Adults with Children in Rural, Appalachian Mississippi
… to those in not fully food secure households. No other measures differed between groups (p>.05). Overall, food insecurity (food insecure; not fully food secure) was associated with decreased produce intakes (fruit, vegetable, total) and behaviors (perceptions; lower 7-item fruit and vegetables …
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Development and validation of a general nutrition knowledge questionnaire for adults in Uganda
… aimed at explaining human behavior and nutrition practices among individuals, and in institutions and communities. Head teachers are key change agents in a school environment that most likely would influence any nutrition intervention. Basic nutrition knowledge may enable them to improve …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nutrient Composition and Digestibility of California Perennial and Annual Grasses at Four Stages of Growth
… beef cattle industry. Understanding their nutritional quality of these forages is important for their effective use (George et al., 2001a; Waterman et al., 2014). The objectives of this research were to investigate the nutritional characteristics, and <em>in situ</em> digestbilities in …
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Intake, Digestibility, Insitu Disappearance and Ruminal Fermentation of Bermuda Grass Hay by Lactating Beef Cows Offered Corn or Hominy Feed as Supplements
… < 0.05) for MC and MH compared with the other treatments. Dry matter digestibility did not differ (<em>P</em> = 0.37) among treatments but MC and MH had greater (<em>P</em> < 0.05) digestible DMI compared with CONT and LC. Hay fraction B (potentially degradable DM) was greater (<em>P</em> …
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Entry-Level Physical Therapy Students' Knowledge and Attitudes of Nutrition
<p>Like other allied health fields, physical therapy has incorporated health promotion as a part of their practice. A large and important component of health promotion is nutrition. Little research has been conducted on the knowledge and attitudes of nutrition in physical therapists and has only …
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Influence of Nutritional Modifications on Sow, Litter, and Nursery Performance
<p>Two separate series of experiments were conducted to determine: 1) the influence of dietary arginine supplementation in late gestation on reproductive performance, and 2) the impact of a whole yeast product in gestation, lactation, and weaned pig diets on reproductive, growth, and immune …
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Factors Influencing Travel Order as Proxy for Leadership and Trade-offs in Activity Budgets in Lactating and Nonlactating African Savanna Elephants
<p>Nutritional and energetic needs of female mammals depend upon size or reproductive investment and shape individual activity budgets and behavioral patterns. To maximize nutritional and energetic intake females may increase time allocated to foraging or access resources through risk-prone …
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Self-Regulation Abilities of Low-Income Mothers in Community Based, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
… programs such as the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) are designed to improve dietary behaviors among low-income populations. Although EFNEP has seen improvements, they are not yet up to recommendations. Previous studies have been successful in eliciting behavior …
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Digestibility of Two Complete Pelleted Diets by the Horse (Equus caballus) as a Model Animal for Nondomestic Hindgut Fermenters
… of exotic animals is a necessary component of nutrition management in zoos and other wildlife facilities. In the absence of species-specific data, domestic animal models are often referenced. Herbivorous hindgut fermenters, such as horses, zebra, and rhinoceros, rely on microbial fermentation …
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Acceleration of The Panin Development In Mice Expressing Oncogenic K-Ras Due to A High Fat Diet
<p>Obesity is postulated to be one of the major risk factors for pancreatic cancer, and recently it was indicated that an elevated body mass index (BMI correlates strongly with a decrease in patient survival. Despite the evident relationship, the molecular mechanisms involved are unclear. Oncogenic …
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Novel effects of Prefoldin Pathway on Intestinal Homeostasis via Dietary Restriction in Drosophila melanogaster
… proteins, some of which are known to assist in other cellular functions including cytoskeleton assembly, proteostasis, gene regulation, and DNA repair. However, the role these subunits play in maintaining intestinal homeostasis is currently unknown. Nor is it known if the expression of these …
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Farmers Market Education with Supplemental Voucher Improves Farmers Market Awareness in Elementary Children
<strong>Purpose:</strong>The purpose of this pilot intervention study was to provide farmers market (FM) education coupled with FM voucher to assess FM awareness, attendance, and voucher use. <strong>Methods:</strong>Kindergarten through 3<sup>rd</sup>grade students attending a summer school …
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