IntroductionSustainable diets and their overall impact on the environment and human health have garnered global attention. Environmental impact, human nutrition, and affordability are three relevant dimensions for assessing overall sustainability of ...
Lara Yacoub Bach +7 more
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Female and male Wistar rats (Rattus norvegicus) discriminate diets according to energetic quantity [PDF]
The food choice of animals is influenced by several factors including the quantity and nutrients available. It is not known, however, whether faced with alternatives that present the same amount of food, with similar flavor and obtained with the same ...
Aragon, Davi Casadele +4 more
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Glycemic index, nutrient density, and promotion of aberrant crypt foci in rat colon [PDF]
We speculated that a diet with a high glycemic index (GI), or a diet with a low nutrient density (nutrient-to-calorie ratio), would enhance colon carcinogenesis, presuma-bly via increased insulin resistance.
Corpet, Denis E. +2 more
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Effect of fermentation on apparent total and nutrient digestibility of linseed, Linum usitatissimum, meal in rohu, Labeo rohita, fingerlings [PDF]
Background. Linseed and its by-products constitute a major source of dietary protein, but due to amino-acid imbalance and presence of anti-nutritional factors their use in fish feed is limited.
N. Mukhopadhyay, A.K. Ray
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Dried chicory root (Cichorium intybus L.) as a natural fructan source in rabbit diet: effects on growth performance, digestion and caecal and carcass traits [PDF]
[EN] Three experimental diets were formulated including (per kg) 100 g oats (control diet), 50 g chicory root (Chicory 5 diet) or 100 g chicory root (Chicory 10 diet) at the expense of oats. The diets differed with respect to starch and fructan contents.
Bónai +13 more
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Background: Despite the abundance of edible biodiversity, both wild and cultivated, malnutrition and food insecurity persist in Busia County, Kenya, where poverty indices range from 63% to 74% and 25% of children younger than 5 years are stunted, 11% are
Aurillia Manjella, MSc +3 more
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Nutrition‐sensitive agriculture (NSA) interventions offer a means to improve the dietary quality of rural, undernourished populations. Their effectiveness could be further increased by understanding how household dynamics enable or inhibit the uptake of ...
Helen Harris‐Fry +14 more
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The circadian rhythm is essential in order to maintain metabolic homeostasis and insulin sensitivity. Disruption of circadian mechanisms is associated with the development of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes. Lifestyle changes such as an equilibrated
Ana Magalhães +3 more
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EFFECTS OF ADDING SALTOSE AS PROBIOTIC TO BROILER DIETS ON PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE COMMERCIAL BREEDING CIRCUMSTANCES [PDF]
Saltose is one of the biological feed additives used for controlling coccidia and clostridia inthe broiler, this study was aimed to evaluate its use on productivity and profitability in commercialcircumstances.A total of 60 thousand one day old Ross 308 ...
Abdulgabar Al Chekh Suliman
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Intake, growth and meat quality of steers given diets based on varying proportions of maize silage and grass silage [PDF]
Simmental × Holstein-Friesian steers were offered four forage diets. These comprised grass silage (G); proportionately 0·67 grass silage, proportionately 0·33 maize silage (GGM); 0·33 grass silage, 0·67 maize silage ( MMG); maize silage ( M) from 424 (s ...
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