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.