Prevalence study of signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorder in Brazilian college students.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and severity of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in Brazilian college students. A questionnaire was administered to 2,396 students. Seventy-three percent of women (mean age 21.

Nutritional evaluation of some processed catering foods.

Five prepared catering dishes were analysed to evaluate the proximate composition and the fatty acids, vitamin E, thiamine and riboflavin content. The correspondent values were calculated from actually available food composition tables (two from Italy, one from the UK and one from the USA). When using more than one database to calculate the composition of a complex recipe the average values were similar to the analytical ones despite the wide range reported for some variables.