Proceedings, Volume 91, Issue 1

Maternal nutritional status during pregnancy affects the growth of the foetus and may impair the development of different organs, some of which may affect cardio-metabolic health in early childhood. This study determined the dietary intake of pregnan...

Dietary requirements for vitamin C in age and gender groups are based on body weight. Mean body weight has increased since the requirements were set due to the increase in obesity prevalence. How does dietary adequacy change if the requirements are a...

There is a current trend towards plant-based diets in Western countries. These diets have been associated with long-term health benefits but could limit the adequacy of some indispensable nutrients. Here, we estimated the nutritional risks and health...

Background and objectives: Riboflavin in the form flavin mononucleotide (FMN) acts as a cofactor for the pyridoxine phosphate oxidase required to generate pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP), the active form of vitamin B6 in tissues. Few human studies...

Concerns about the growing human population and how to supply future nutritional needs have translated to a growing interest in searching for alternative proteins. However, one important aspect of protein intake to be considered is the quality of the...

Objectives: Fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption has been inversely associated with cardiovascular disease, but questions remain about the extent to which these results are due to confounding. Methods: From 2006–2010, >0.5 million adults age...

Background: Nutrition is one of the most important elements of the external environment affecting human health. Aim: We aimed to evaluate the frequency of consumption of fast-food products and the nutritional status of adolescents aged 12–16 in...

Background and objectives: Large and long-term randomized controlled trials (RCT) that test the effect of a weight-loss lifestyle intervention on the changes in the directly quantified body composition are scarce. Here, we aimed to evaluate the effec...

Coeliac disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune condition, estimated to affect around 1% of the global population. Without treatment, CD increases the risk of serious complications such as malabsorption, malnutrition, and cancer. Treatment requires life...

Background and objectives: There is a lack of data on the environmental impact of children’s and adolescents’ food consumption as most studies only consider adult dietary intake and, in addition, use hypothetical diets or focus on specifi...