Self-reported health-related behaviors and dietary habits in patients with metabolic syndrome.

Background: There is an ongoing debate about factors affecting the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle especially in the population without coronary artery disease (CAD) symptoms and with one or several risk factors. The study was aimed at describing self-reported health-related behaviors and dietary habits in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS).

Methods: Consecutive patients with an outpatient diagnosis of MetS admitted to our cardiology department underwent clinical examination and cardiovascular risk assessment based on the SCORE scale.

[The use of low-caloric diet with modified fatty acids pool in the therapy of the metabolic syndrome].

Background: Abdominal obesity is the main component of the metabolic syndrome. Hyperplasia of visceral adipose tissue leads to numerous metabolic disorders: hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance. This clustering of the most hazardous risk factors is directly linked to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Dietary assessment of males from Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Warsaw.

The main purpose of this research was to assess the quality and quantity of daily food rations and the intakes of selected nutrients by males aged 30 to 50 years--the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) from the Warsaw assembly. The assessment of the daily intakes of nutrients showed no significant difference from recommended values formulated by National Food and Nutrition Institute in Warsaw. Daily food intakes by the Adventist males closely follow the healthy eating recommendations over daily nutrients intakes of whole population of males in Poland living in cites.

Oat (Avena sativa L.) and amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus) meals positively affect plasma lipid profile in rats fed cholesterol-containing diets.

Cereals are an important part of diets for hypercholesterolemic patients. However, some of these patients are allergic to these natural products. The purpose of the current study was to compare oatmeal with equal in nutritional values two allergy-free amaranth meals to determine whether this pseudocereal can be a substitute for allergic to cereals individuals.

Comparison of the effects of fish oil and olive oil on blood lipids and aortic atherosclerosis in Watanabe heritable hyperlipidaemic rabbits.

To compare the effects of fish oil and olive oil on the development of atherosclerosis in Watanabe heritable hyperlipidaemic (WHHL) rabbits, 6-week-old animals were given a daily dose (1.5 ml/kg body weight) of fish oil (n 10) or olive oil (n 10) by oral administration for 16 weeks. Plasma cholesterol and triacylglycerols were measured once monthly, and their concentrations in lipoproteins, together with susceptibility of LDL to oxidation were measured in vitro at the termination of the experiment.

Dietary persimmon improves lipid metabolism in rats fed diets containing cholesterol.

The effect of dietary persimmon (Pers, 7.0%) on lipid metabolism and antioxidant activity was investigated in 40 male Wistar rats adapted to cholesterol-free or 1% cholesterol diets. The rats were divided in four groups of 10.

[Unsaturated fatty acids omega-3. I. Structure, sources, determination, metabolism in the organism].

Fats covered approximately 22% of energy requirements in diets of ancient human being, and simultaneously the value of ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) to saturated (SFA) was estimated as 1.4 and the proportion of PUFA omega 6 to PUFA omega 3 was 1:1. During the last twenty thousands years the composition of human diets was changing dramatically due to economical, culture and social changes.

Comparison of the influence of dietary fibre sources with different proportions of soluble and insoluble fibre on Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Mn and Cu apparent absorption in rats.

The 6 week experiment was performed on growing Wistar male rats. In the third and the sixth weeks digestibility trials were performed. The following high fibre preparations were supplemented to the control diet (C): high methoxylated citrus pectin (Cr); apple pomace (A), potato fiber "Povex" (P) and sugar beet pulp (B).

Metabolic effect of orotic acid in calves.

Eight calves (males, Black and White crossbred with Holstein-Fresian) were fed milk and milk replacer without (control group) or with potassium orotate (3 mmol./l.) supplementation for 6 weeks after birth.

Lipid peroxides in blood from patients with atherosclerosis of coronary and peripheral arteries.

Lipid peroxides in plasma were determined in 100 patients with coronary artery disease, in 100 patients with peripheral artery disease and in 100 persons without any clinical symptoms of coronary or peripheral artery disease. The concentrations of lipid peroxides were significantly higher in patients with atherosclerosis (both coronary and peripheral arteries) than in controls. There was no difference between lipid peroxides in patients with coronary and peripheral artery disease.