A study of 1074 apparently healthy children aged 2 to 5 years revealed a wide range of haemoglobin, extending from 6·8 g/100 ml to 15·6 g/100 ml. The mean Hb was 12·3 g/100 ml, with only minor variations for age, sex, and season. A significant increase in the Hb followed iron administration if the initial Hb was less than 10·5 g/100 ml, but there was no rise in the mean value if the initial level exceeded 12·5 g/100 ml. Taking 10·5 g/100 ml as the level below which anaemia is deemed to exist, 5·2% of the total study population were anaemic, compared with 0·3% in private nurseries, 3·7% in local authority nurseries, and 15% of infants on admission into the care of residential nurseries.
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Food Res Int
January 2025
The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Private Bag 4704, Christchurch Mail Centre, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) offers a rich nutritional profile with high protein content and abundant vitamins and minerals. Processing of faba beans for freezing requires blanching, yielding liluva (legume processing water), possibly containing leached macronutrients, with potential for upcycling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Turpentine derivatives and Eucalyptus oil are herbal substances traditionally used to treat various skin infections. Limited non-clinical data suggest they exert an immunological activity, but only scant information exists on their antibiotic effects. This in vitro study has been carried out to investigate the antibacterial and antifungal activity of a marketed skin ointment, its active pharmaceutical ingredients larch turpentine, eucalyptus oil, and turpentine oil, and their mixture, against bacteria and yeasts commonly present on the skin and causing skin infections.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Center for Better Beginnings, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
Importance: The association between maternal medications and the macronutrient composition of human milk has not been studied.
Objective: To compare macronutrient levels in milk samples from mothers treated with long-term medications with samples from untreated healthy and disease-matched control mothers (DMCs).
Design, Setting, And Participants: A cross-sectional study using samples collected between October 2014 and January 2024 from breastfeeding mothers in the US and Canada invited to participate to the Mommy's Milk Human Milk Research Biorepository at the University of California, San Diego.
Plants (Basel)
December 2024
Food Technology Division, ceiA3, CIAMBITAL, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
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December 2024
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, El Líbano 5524, Macul, Santiago 7830490, Chile.
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