A map predicting child undernutrition in India village by village has been developed by researchers from the USA, Korea, China and India. It’s...

Background: SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection ranges from asymptomatic through to fatal COVID-19 characterized by a 'cytokine storm' and lung failure. Vitamin D deficiency has been postulated as a determinant of severity. Objectives: To review the evidence relevant to vitamin D and COVID-19....

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Serious social, economic, and ecological consequences of climate change due to the high levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in our atmosphere resulting from a wide range of human activities including the burning of fossil fuels and land use have impacted weather events world over. Extreme weather...

The gut microbiota is a complex community composed of trillions of microbes that adapts to its host over the lifetime. Recently, the advances of the methods of high-throughput sequencing have allowed the identification of microbial species in a stool sample, and mass spectrometry identification of...

Introduction: Monitoring of physical development in children and adolescents is an important public health routine. Recent decades have been characterized by a substantial increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents, although little evidence from Eastern Siberia is...

The aim of this study was to determine the pH and the count of mesophiles in black prochilodus («boquichico») meat (Prochidolus nigricans), from the markets of the cityof Pucallpa, Ucayali. In total, 115 samples of boquichico specimens were collected fromthe 23 stalls distributed in the 5 markets...

Grape pomace is a by-product of grape processing and represents a major waste issue. One of the possible methods of revalorization of this agriculture waste is to incorporate red grape pomace into the feed mixture of poultry e.g. broiler chickens. The rich content of polyphenols in red grape pomace...

Interesterification is an alternative to partial hydrogenation that helps to manufacture products of a variety of melting properties. When the process is applied to different blends of vegetable oils, redistribution of fatty acids between and within triacyglycerol occurs that changes the physical...