Dietary influences

Benzie IFF Lipid peroxidation a review of causes, consequences, measurement and dietary influences. Int J Food Sci Nutr... 

Mucci, L. A., R. Tamimi, P. Lagiou et al. 2001. Are dietary influences on the risk of prostate cancer mediated through the insulin-like growth factor system BJUInt 87(9) 814-820. 

The normal values for thiamine in human blood vary from 25-80 mpg/ml (average of 27 cases), from 110-370 mfig/ml in urine (27 cases), and from 13-17 mpg/ml in cerebrospinal fluid (45 cases). These specimens were obtained from normal subjects, receiving no vitamin therapy and in the fasting state, to eliminate dietary influences. The... 

No marked differences in dietary influence upon acid or calcium excretion or sulfate loss was observed in males compared with the females in this study. 

Resorption of the required mineral substances from food usually depends on the body s requirements, and in several cases also on the composition of the diet. One example of dietary influence is calcium (see p. 342). Its resorption as Ca is promoted by lactate and citrate, but phosphate, oxalic acid, and phytol inhibit calcium uptake from food due to complex formation and the production of insoluble salts. 

Gender is not an important determinant of plasma amino acid levels. Females have a tendency toward small changes of their amino acid levels during the menstrual cycle. However these changes are barely distinguishable from the normal diurnal changes and dietary influences. 

H Wiseman. Dietary influences on membrane function importance in protection against oxidative damage and disease. J Nutr Biochem 7 2-15, 1996. 

Diet is a strong factor in the control of atherosclerosis relating to general vascular disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke. The interrelated disorders in atherosclerosis of hyperinsulinemia, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension are strongly subject to dietary influence. The type of dietary protein, animal vs. plant, appears to be as important as the type of lipid, animal vs. plant, in atherosclerosis. Dietary protein type, with its differing amino acid ratios, appears to be a major secretagogue of insulin. 

The NMR methods have been used in clinical medicine for many years, and metabonomic evaluation of human samples has been conducted for at least the past 10 years (28). Classical examples include the application of NMR to the evaluation of inborn errors of metabolism (29). More recent work has applied metabonomics to the evaluation of the clinical severity of coronary artery disease and to establish a relationship between serum metabolic profiles and hypertension (30,31). Because metabonomics is highly sensitive to environmental or dietary influences (discussed under toxicological applications), concern has been raised that the natural variation in the human population would preclude the application of metabonomics to clinical problems. However, such concerns have been dealt with directly, and recently, Lenz et al. (32) demonstrated that urine and plasma could be collected from human subjects and used successfully for metabonomic analyses. Furthermore, in addition to the disease states described above, metabonomics has been shown to a potentially useful tool for describing alterations associated with dietary and nutritional practices (33). 

Visek, W.J. and Clinton, S.K. (1985) Dietary Influences on the Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Carcinogenicity of Hydrazines and Related Compounds. This Volume. 

Chapkin, R.S., Ziboh, V.A., and McCullough, J.L., Dietary influences of evening primrose oil and fish oil on the skin of essential fatty acid deficient guinea pigs, J. Nutr., 117, 1360, 1987. 

Griinari, J.M., Bauman, D.E., Chilliard, Y., Perajoki, P., Nurmela, K.V.V. 2000a. Dietary influences on conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) in bovine milk fat. 3rd Meeting European Section of AOCS, Helsinki, pp. 87. 

Stanton, C., Lawless, F., Kjellmer, G., Harrington, D., Devery, R., Connolly, J.F., Murphy, J. 1997. Dietary influences on bovine milk cis-9, trans-11 -conjugated linoleic acid content. J. Food Sci. 62, 1083-1086. 

Stephens, F.O. 1999. The rising incidence of breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. Dietary influences a possible preventive role for nature s sex hormone modifiers—the phytoestrogens (review). Oncol. Reports. 6 865-870. 

Quantitative measurement of phospholipids is rare in routine clinical practice but more common in research (e.g., in studies of dietary influences). The choline-containing phospholipids lecithin, lysolecithin, and sphingomyelin, which account for at least 95% of total phospholipids in serum, are readily measured by an enzymatic reaction sequence using phospholipase D, choline-oxidase, and horseradish peroxidase. Kit methods with this enzymatic sequence are available commercially. Before the availability of enzymatic reagents, the common quantitative method involved extraction and acid digestion with analysis of the total lipid-bound phosphorus. ... 

In the August/September 2006 issue of me Townsend Letter for Doctors Patients, on me very last page, Melvyn R. Werbach, MD., writes about me Cancer Prevention Diet. The results of animal studies suggest mat me single most powerful and consistent dietary influence on carcinogenesis is simply energy restriction. In omer words, eat less. 

Ranby, M., Sundell, B., and Nilsson, T. K., Blood collection in strong acidic citrate anticoagulant used in a study of dietary influence on basal tPA activity. Thromb. Haemost 62, 917-922 (1989). 

Featherston, W.R. Horn, G.W. (1973). Dietary influences on the activities of enzymes involved in branched-chain amino add catabolism in the chick. ]. Nutr., 103, 757-65. 

Juncos JL, Fabbrini G, Mburadian MM, Serrati C, Chase TN. Dietary influences on the antiparkinsonian response to levodopa. Arch Neurol (1987) 44, 1003-1005. 

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