Female athletes follow a strict diet and perform rigorous exercise to boost their performance, which induces health issues called the female athlete triad (FAT), defined as the combination of disordered eating, amenorrhoea and low bone mineral density. It is known to have a significant effect on...

Background and Aim: Chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) is a protocol widely used to create an animal model of depression with food deprivation, water deprivation, and physical-dominant stressors as routine procedures. However, human depression mainly involves psychological stressors and does...

Kappa-carrageenan (κ-CGN) is widely used in the meat industry. However, its impact on the host metabolism is less revealed. The current study investigated the effect of κ-CGN in pork-based diets on the lipid metabolism of male C57BL/6J mice. The κ-CGN supplement significantly suppressed the...

The consistency of the diet may affect the development and maintenance of the muscular and bony parts of the masticatory apparatus. Therefore, we investigated the effect of chronic intake of liquid nutrition (Fresubin) on the growth and maintenance of the weight and size of the skull, mandible, and ...

The role of the gut microbiota in determining body fatness has been a prominent area of research and has received significant public attention. Based largely on animal studies, recent attempts to translate these findings into interventions in humans have not been successful. This review will...

Aim: Contradiction overwhelms chemerin link to feeding behavior. Neither the chemerin central role on appetite regulation nor its relation to hypothalamic histamine and AMPK is verified. Main methods: Food intake, body weight and hypothalamic biochemical changes were assessed after a single...

Objective: To evaluate sub-acute oral toxicity of L-arabinose in rats. Methods: According to GB 15193.22-2014 National food safety standard-Repeated dose 28-day oral toxicity study, specific pathogen free (SPF) grade healthy Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were selected and divided randomly based on their ...

Objective: Obesity is associated with consumption of a Western diet low in dietary fiber, while prebiotics reduce body weight. Fiber induces short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production, and SCFA administration is beneficial to host metabolic homeostasis. However, the role of endogenous SCFA signaling...

Objective: To study the effects of sodium alginate and its oligosaccharide on lipid metabolism and intestinal flora in mice. Methods: C57BL/6 mice were used to make a high-fat model and fed with sodium alginate and its oligosaccharide. The physiological and biochemical indexes such as body weight...

Scope: In the last decades, dietary phosphate intake has increased due to a higher consumption of ultraprocessed food. This higher intake has an impact on body composition and health state. Recently, this study finds that a high chronic phosphate diet leads to no major renal alterations, but...