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Association of Infant Feeding Characteristics With Dietary Patterns and Obesity in Korean Childhood [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2023
Objectives Young children’s feeding characteristics can play an important role in eating habits and health during later childhood. This study was conducted to examine the associations of feeding characteristics with dietary patterns and obesity in ...
Kyoung-Nam Kim, Moon-Kyung Shin
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Evaluating the Potential of Protected Cultivation for Off-Season Leafy Vegetable Production: Prospects for Crop Productivity and Nutritional Improvement

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
The effects of different protective structures on horticultural and nutritional yield of amaranth and water spinach were studied in three seasons of 2020–2021 in Taiwan.
Srinivasan Ramasamy, Mei-Ying Lin, Wan-Jen Wu, Hsin-I Wang, Paola Sotelo-Cardona   +4 more
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The Impact of Local Agrobiodiversity and Food Interventions on Cost, Nutritional Adequacy, and Affordability of Women and Children's Diet in Northern Kenya: A Modeling Exercise

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2020
Wild plant species are often excellent sources of micronutrients and have the potential to promote healthy living, yet they are under-exploited.
Jacob Sarfo, Gudrun B. Keding, Julia Boedecker, Elke Pawelzik, Céline Termote   +4 more
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Dietary Palygorskite-Based Antibacterial Agent Supplementation as an Alternative to Antibiotics Improves Growth Performance, Blood Parameters, and Rumen Microbiota in Sheep

Antibiotics, 2023
This research aimed to investigate the effects of a palygorskite-based antibacterial agent (PAA) as an alternative to antibiotics on growth performance, blood parameters, and rumen microbiota in sheep. A total of 120 sheep were randomly divided into five
Shujie Li, Yue Liu, Hanfang Zeng, Chanjian Wang, Zhaoyu Han   +4 more
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The common use of improper control diets in diet-induced metabolic disease research confounds data interpretation: the fiber factor

Nutrition & Metabolism, 2018
Diets used to induce metabolic disease are generally high in fat and refined carbohydrates and importantly, are usually made with refined, purified ingredients.
Michael A. Pellizzon, Matthew R. Ricci
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Evaluation of DDGS as a Low-Cost Feed Ingredient for Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio Linneus) Cultivated in a Semi-Intensive System

Life, 2022
Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a coproduct from the ethanol production industry, is successfully used as an ingredient in feeding cattle and pigs due to its relatively high protein and nutrient content and low price compared to cereals ...
Cristian-Alin Barbacariu, Cristina Mihaela Rimbu, Lenuta Dirvariu, Marian Burducea, Razvan Stefan Boiangiu, Elena Todirascu-Ciornea, Gabriela Dumitru   +6 more
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Correction to: The common use of improper control diets in diet-induced metabolic disease research confounds data interpretation: the fiber factor

Nutrition & Metabolism, 2018
Following publication of the original article [1] the authors noticed that the pie chart figure contains percentages (41%, 41%, 19%) that are slightly off given they don’t add to 100. They should instead read 40.6%, 40.6%, 18.8%.
Michael A. Pellizzon, Matthew R. Ricci
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Issues and Prospects for the Sustainable Use and Conservation of Cultivated Vegetable Diversity for More Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

Agriculture, 2018
Traditional vegetables are key assets for supporting more nutrition-sensitive agriculture under climate change as many have lower water requirements, adaptation to poor quality soils, higher resistance to pests and diseases, and higher nutritional values
Gennifer Meldrum, Stefano Padulosi, Gaia Lochetti, Rose Robitaille, Stefano Diulgheroff   +4 more
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Once small always small? To what extent morphometric characteristics and post-weaning starter regime affect pig lifetime growth performance

Porcine Health Management, 2018
Background The aim of this study was to determine the effect of piglet morphometric characteristics and starter regime on postnatal growth. Some piglets born light are able to grow faster than others, and identifying which piglets are more at risk to ...
A. M. S. Huting, P. Sakkas, I. Wellock, K. Almond, I. Kyriazakis   +4 more
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Nutritional Potentials of Atypical Feed Ingredients for Broiler Chickens and Pigs

Animals, 2021
Diets play an important part in monogastric nutrition. This is because diets are comprised of various feed ingredients that supply energy and nutrients required by broiler chickens or pigs for normal growth and development. The main feed ingredients used
Olufemi Oluwaseun Babatunde, Chan Sol Park, Olayiwola Adeola   +2 more
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