Heart healthy integrative nutritional counseling (H2INC): Creating a Chinese medicine + western medicine patient education curriculum for Chinese Americans.

Objectives: Current cardiovascular disease (CVD) nutrition guidelines do not take into account Chinese medicine (CM) principles. We created a heart healthy integrative nutritional counseling (H2INC) curriculum consistent with CM principles and current nutrition guidelines.

Methods: We conducted three phases of semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders (CM and biomedical providers and Chinese American (CAs) patients with CVD) followed by iterative development of H2INC.

Thiopurines are negatively associated with anthropometric parameters in pediatric Crohn's disease.

Aim: To determine the distribution of anthropometric parameter (AP)--scores and characterize associations between medications/serum biomarkers and AP--scores in pediatric Crohn's disease (CD).

Methods: CD patients [< chronological age (CA) 21 years] were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. Descriptive statistics were generated for participants' demographic characteristics and key variables of interest.

Full fat milk consumption protects against severe childhood obesity in Latinos.

Consumption of non- or low-fat dairy products is recommended as a strategy to lower the risk of childhood obesity. However, recent evidence suggests that consumption of whole fat dairy products may, in fact, be protective against obesity. Our objective was to determine the association between milk fat consumption and severe obesity among three-year-old Latino children, a population with a disproportionate burden of obesity and severe obesity.

Television During Meals in the First 4 Years of Life.

The development of children's mealtime television (TV) habits has not been well studied. We assessed whether mealtime TV habits established in infancy will persist into early childhood. We analyzed data collected through parent surveys at birth and at 6-month intervals from a randomized controlled trial.

Examining the hygiene hypothesis: the Trial of Infant Probiotic Supplementation.

The hygiene hypothesis suggests that the absence of infectious exposure at a critical point in immune system development leads to a greater risk for the later development of atopic disease. As a result, it may be possible to devise strategies that can block the onset of atopic diseases such as asthma. This paper outlines the rationale, background and design for the Trial of Infant Probiotic Supplementation study, which is designed to test the effectiveness of a daily infant probiotic supplement in the first 6 months of life in preventing the development of early markers of asthma.

Metabolic syndrome is associated with greater histologic severity, higher carbohydrate, and lower fat diet in patients with NAFLD.

Objectives: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is considered as the hepatic manifestation of metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance (IR) is a key component of metabolic syndrome. The aim was to determine the dietary composition, physical activity, and histologic severity between NAFLD patients with and without metabolic syndrome.

Probiotics in primary care pediatrics.

Probiotics are live microorganisms that help stabilize and balance intestinal microflora. Although these organisms are ubiquitous and have been used in the production of foods, probiotics have been used more frequently for therapeutic purposes, including the treatment and prevention of pediatric diseases. This article reviews the proposed mechanisms of the beneficial effects of probiotics, potential uses of these organisms in pediatric care, and promising future directions for their application.

Exercise energy expenditure is not consciously detected due to oro-gastric, not metabolic, basis of hunger sensation.

We tested the hypothesis that exercise energy expenditure (EEE) will elicit reflex metabolic compensations but no increases in hunger. Exercise expended 800 kcal once when fasted and at another time in a post-prandial state. During fasting exercise, pre-meal ratings of hunger were unaffected by EEE, but plasma concentrations of ghrelin, growth hormone and free fatty acids were higher than in the absence of EEE.

One-year intense nutritional counseling results in histological improvement in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: a pilot study.

Background And Aim: In individuals with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), short-term weight loss has been shown to improve biochemical abnormalities; however, its effect on liver histology is largely unknown. The aim of the article is to determine if dietary intervention is effective in improving histological features of steatohepatitis in patients with biopsy-proven NASH.

Methods: Twenty-three patients (11M/12F) with BMI >25 kg/m(2) and biopsy-proven NASH received standardized nutritional counseling aimed at reducing insulin resistance (IR) and weight.

Effects of fructo-oligosaccharide-supplemented infant cereal: a double-blind, randomized trial.

Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) may have potential benefits, since they exhibit many soluble dietary fibre-like properties. Foods currently available for weaning infants are generally low in fibre content and lack these potential benefits. Data documenting tolerance of FOS in weaning foods are greatly lacking.