Background/Objective: The Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score is a laboratory-based tool for identifying nutritional risk. This study examined associations of anthropometric and bioimpedance-derived body composition measures with CONUT and t...
Background: Equivalent doses of dietary nitrate often yield highly heterogeneous exercise responses across individuals. Efficient enterosalivary nitrate-to-nitrite conversion is dependent on oral commensal bacteria, representing a critical upstream s...
Background/Objectives: Preterm infants are at substantial risk of neurodevelopmental impairment. Current guidelines recommend gradual advancement of enteral feeds during the first postnatal weeks, but the rate that is optimal for the individual infan...
Background/Objectives: Vitamin A (VA), which is fat-soluble, belongs to the group of carotenoids, a class of highly effective antioxidant and genoprotective compounds (including astaxanthine, zeaxanthine, luteine). It plays a critical role in cellula...
Background/Objectives: Type 2 diabetes, a widely recognized risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is mainly due to the role played by insulin resistance on neuronal degeneration. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) also significantly increases t...
Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are important metabolic products generated by the gut microbiota and they play a crucial role in maintaining intestinal barrier integrity, regulating immune responses, and participating in neural modulation. In recent...
Background: The ethanol in alcoholic beverages is toxic to human health. Reducing alcohol-related harm, a major public health priority, requires reductions in the amount of ethanol consumed. Alongside policies that increase alcohol prices and restric...
Background/Objectives: Dietary therapy for inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs) can restrict nutrient-dense foods and increase reliance on vitamin and mineral supplementation. However, formulation-related barriers may limit supplement acceptability a...
Background & aims. Plant-based dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, are considered protective against MASLD. The Mediterranean diet is rich in polyphenols (PP), plant-derived metabolites that exhibit anti-fibrotic effects in experime...
Background: Young athletes in weight-category sports such as judo may experience pressure related to body weight, which can be associated with unhealthy eating. Building on two earlier studies of young Polish judo athletes, this study examined whethe...
Maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation plays an important role in the neurodevelopment of offspring. One-carbon (1C) metabolism includes B-vitamins such as folic acid (vitamin B9) and vitamin B12, and the nutrient choline. Adequate dietary...
Objective: We aimed to examine the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and sleep quality assessed using both subjective and objective methods in a general adult population. Design: This is a cross-sectional study. Adherence t...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is increasingly recognized as a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder with multiple clinical and pathological trajectories. In a subset of patients, α-synuclein pathology may begin in the gut and subsequently s...
Objective: To investigate the association between key components of prenatal nutrition education interventions and the prevention of GDM in pregnant women. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Central R...
Background/Objectives: Magnesium (Mg) is an essential micronutrient that participates in more than 300 enzymatic reactions, with well-established functions in glucose and lipid metabolism and cardiovascular health. Although serum Mg is routinely used...
Background: Patients with an ileostomy are at risk of developing a high-output ileostomy (HOS). An episode of HOS can lead to dehydration and acute kidney injury (AKI). Existing dietary recommendations are largely based on expert opinion. At Charit&e...
Diet is one of the primary determinants of gut microbiota composition and its metabolic output. That output is emerging as a critical determinant of systemic health and has been linked to most physiological systems in the body, yet its relationship t...
Background/Objectives: Exercise performance and recovery depend on interactions between energy metabolism and redox regulation. SLAB51, a multi-strain probiotic, may influence oxygen-related metabolism and antioxidant responses, but evidence in elite...
Specialized nutrition products are often used as a component of nutrition care across a spectrum of acute and chronic pediatric medical conditions. These products differ from conventional foods due to their clinical purpose, composition, and context...
Pancreatic diseases, including acute pancreatitis (AP) and chronic pancreatitis (CP), pancreatogenic diabetes mellitus (T3cDM), autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), and pancreatic cancer (PDAC), are associated with metabolic, inflammatory, and nutritional...
Background/Objectives: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disease, and its global incidence continues to increase. MASLD can progress from simple steatosis to steatohepatitis, cirrhosi...
Background: The mitigation of existing disparities in human milk intake is a shared responsibility. Health systems have emphasized antenatal decision making to increase the proportion of infants that receive Exclusive Human Milk (EHM). However, our r...
Children with Down syndrome (DS) may experience feeding difficulties arising from interactions among hypotonia, cardiorespiratory and gastrointestinal conditions, swallowing dysfunction, oral-motor and sensory differences, delayed feeding skill devel...
Background/Objectives: Human breast milk (HM) is the gold-standard nutritional source for infants, delivering not only macro- and micronutrients but also bioactive components, including extracellular vesicles (EVs) enriched with microRNAs (miRNAs) th...
Background/Objectives: Ambient sensory cues can influence food choice, yet their role in everyday environments remains underexplored, with much of the existing evidence derived from laboratory studies. This is particularly relevant in university sett...
Background/Objectives: The timing of medication intake can influence therapeutic efficacy and adverse effects, yet little is known about when medications are actually taken in daily life. We aimed to characterize real-world temporal patterns of medic...
Background/Objectives: Acute gouty arthritis (AGA) is an auto-inflammatory disorder characterized by dysregulated innate immune activation and overactive NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3)/Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) inflammat...
Background: Cellular senescence is a critical driver of chronic inflammation, tissue remodeling, and progressive fibrosis during the aging process. Codonopsis tangshen Oliv. is a widely used medicinal and edible homologous plant in traditional Chines...
Background: Human milk-derived fortifiers (HumBMF) are an alternative to bovine protein-based fortifiers (BovBMF) for preterm infants, but their comparative effectiveness and safety remain uncertain. We evaluated the effects of HumBMF versus BovBMF i...
Obesity and insulin resistance are characterized by substantial heterogeneity in energy expenditure and substrate utilization. Whole-room indirect calorimetry (WRIC) enables continuous assessment of oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, ener...
Background/Objective: Sea buckthorn contains an exceptionally rich profile of bioactive nutrients and metabolites, with established systemic therapeutic benefits across diverse pathological models. However, comprehensive data bridging these systemic...
Background/Objectives: Physical activity (PA), physiological fitness, and the gut microbiome have each been linked to health outcomes among breast cancer survivors (BCS); however, these associations have been inconsistent. Few studies have directly c...
Background and Aims: Lynch syndrome (LS) confers a substantially elevated lifetime risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). While enhanced endoscopic surveillance and aspirin chemoprevention are the cornerstones of management, evidence suggests modifiable li...
Background: Serum α-tocopherol depends on lipids, so absolute concentrations misclassify vitamin E status in children with chronic liver disease (CLD). The CALIPER program defined lipid-adjusted E:cholesterol (E:C) and E:triglyceride (E:TG) rat...
Background: α-Amanitin (α-AMA) is the primary lethal toxin found in poisonous mushrooms of the genus Amanita; accidental ingestion can lead to severe liver injury, and there is currently no specific antidote. Due to its significant anti-i...
Prebiotic supplementation has emerged as a promising strategy to ameliorate metabolic disorders through beneficial reshaping of the gut microbiota. Accumulating evidence suggests that fungi and their polysaccharides (e.g., those from Auricularia auri...
Introduction: Berry-derived and berry-based interventions have gained increasing attention for their potential health benefits. Berries are rich in diverse bioactive compounds, including polyphenols and anthocyanins, which are associated with a broad...
Background/Objectives: The Beverage Hydration Index (BHI) compares fluid retention of beverages relative to water based upon urine output over time. We examined the reliability of diuresis from water ingestion and its potential impact on the BHI of a...
Background/Objectives: Diet quality is a potentially modifiable determinant of heart failure (HF), yet evidence regarding its long-term association with HF incidence remains limited. This study examined the association between baseline diet quality a...
Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) dysfunction is a major determinant of obesity-related metabolic disorders, including insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and chronic low-grade inflammation. Growing evidence indicates that VAT...
Background: Lactate-acclimated MSTO-211HAcT and H2452AcT malignant mesothelioma (MM) cells were previously found to tolerate gemcitabine more readily than their parental cells while remaining sensitive to apigenin. We examined whether changes in gluc...
Background: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and cognitive aging are prevalent, interrelated conditions that share gut-derived pathomechanisms. The Planetary Health Diet (PHD), a sustainable plant-forward framework pro...
Background: Clean food consumerism reflects consumers’ preferences for foods perceived as natural, authentic, transparent, and health-promoting. This study aimed to culturally adapt the Clean Food Consumerism Scale (CFCS) into Turkish and evalu...
Aim: Milk consumption patterns may be associated with gut microbiota composition, but observational findings can be strongly influenced by demographic and body composition differences among consumers. This observational cross-sectional study evaluate...
Background/Objectives: Eating attitudes may be linked to oral health through behavioral and lifestyle mechanisms, but data on young adults remain limited. The primary objective was to assess the association between dietary attitudes and caries experi...
Background/Objectives: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder characterized by interconnected pathological processes including mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, impaired autophagic processes, neuroinf...
Background/Objectives: Ghrelin is a key orexigenic hormone involved in the regulation of appetite and energy homeostasis, and its fasting circulating concentrations may reflect long-term energy balance and nutritional status. The aim of the study was...
Background: Meals are central to daily life, health, and social participation, yet their safety and enjoyment can be compromised in people with oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). Despite the broad impact of OD on physical and psychosocial well-being and d...
Background/Objectives: Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) reach the oral cavity before any other compartment and resist hydrolysis by salivary enzymes, yet their behavior there has received far less attention than their intestinal fate. This review a...
Background/Objectives: Post-exercise protein ingestion is widely used to promote recovery from exercise, but whether exercise-induced dehydration limits the subsequent protein supplementation response remains unclear. This study examined the effects...
