Assessment of antioxidant nutrient intake of a population of southern US African-American and Caucasian women of various ages when compared to dietary reference intakes.

Antioxidant nutrient intervention strategies to ameliorate negative health factors are of notable research interest. Central to the thesis that antioxidant nutrients improve biological defense systems and provide health benefits is an accurate indication of daily antioxidant nutrient intake. Little information is available concerning these nutrient intakes among non-affluent women of the southern U.

Assessment and significance of 24-h energy intake patterns among young and aged non-affluent southern US women.

Energy intake patterns that may impact health status among non-affluent southern U.S. women from small urban communities have not been evaluated extensively.

How early adolescents describe their dreams: a quantitative analysis.

Most empirical research on dreams has focused on content and structure, while linguistic features have received far less attention. The present study investigated dream language in a critical developmental stage: early adolescence. Narratives of the dreams of 145 early adolescents were tape-recorded and transcribed, and the frequencies of various grammar forms and common words were calculated.

Anthropometric measures and metabolic rate in association with risk of breast cancer (United States).

To investigate whether cancer risk-reduction seen in calorie-restricted animals also applies to breast cancer in women, we have analyzed data from the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the United States and subsequent follow-up surveys. During the follow-up of one to 155 months, 182 out of 7,622 women developed breast cancer. Due to biased under-reporting of dietary intake, the analysis did not examine calorie intake as an exposure variable, but rather focused on anthropometric measures and metabolic rate as biomarkers of nutritional balance.

Reproducibility of the dose-response curve of steroid-induced cleft palate in mice.

Pregnant CD-1 mice were exposed to cortisone acetate at doses ranging from 20 to 100 mg/kg/day on days 10-13 by oral and intramuscular routes. Multiple replicate assays were conducted under identical conditions to assess the reproducibility of the dose-response curve for cleft palate. The data were fitted to the probit, logistic, multistage or Armitage-Doll, and Weibull dose-response model separately for each route of exposure.