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The Nutritional Knowledge, Food Choices And Exercise Habits Of Students At Langston University, Preston Solomon

McCabe Thesis Collection

The process of nutritional assessment has long been used to identify specific nutritional problems that demand attention and correction. The major health problems in the United States and much of the industrialized world have nutrition at their root. The ten leading causes of death in the United States are in some way related to the lack of adequate knowledge, adequate nutrition, or both. Increasingly young people are experiencing obesity, high blood pressure, and high serum cholesterol. These conditions pose problems in nutrition and healthy lifestyles in general. Given that behavior is related positively to knowledge, good nutrition and medical knowledge …

The Nutritional Knowledge, Food Choices, And Exercise Habits Of Students At Langston University, Preston Solomon

McCabe Thesis Collection

The nutritional knowledge, food choice, and exercise habits of an individual determine his or her overall health and life expectancy. Information on these topics enables nutrition educators to develop strategies to improve knowledge and to tailor educational efforts which affect a large number of persons. Poor health in America today is an ever present reality. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular diseases, renal diseases, and pulmonary diseases are causes of death related in part to lack of nutritional knowledge and poor eating and exercise habits. A few of these diseases are chronic in nature and are the most deadly.

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Dietary Chromium Supplementation For Pigs And Chickens., Terry Lynn Ward

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Three experiments were conducted with pigs and four experiments were conducted with chickens to determine the effects of supplemental dietary Cr on growth performance, carcass characteristics, tissue minerals and plasma metabolite and hormone concentrations. In pigs (Exp. 1) 200 ppb Cr from seven different sources tended to decrease performance during the grower phase and increase growth performance during the finisher phase. Dietary Cr had minimal effects on plasma metabolite and hormone concentrations and Cr did not affect carcass characteristics. In general, dietary Cr increased tissue Cr concentration, except for longissimus muscle (LM). In Exp. 2, pigs were fed 400 ppb …

Effects Of Exogenous Female Sex Hormones On Food Intake, Macronutrients And Body Weight In The Ovariectomized Postbreeder Female Rat., Jan Barton Hamilton

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is chosen by a growing segment of the postmenopausal population. Mid-life body weight gain is perceived to increase further with exogenous HRT. To examine hormonal effects on caloric intake (CI), carbohydrate (CHO), FAT, protein (PRO), chocolate and body weight (BW) in a female model, Sprague-Dawley postbreeder (n = 55) rats (10 mos., 10 litters of pups) were ovariectomized (OV) and implanted with 17 $\beta$ estradiol (E) and/or progesterone (P), or placebo in three separate studies (phases) of 10 days each. Uterine weights (p =.0001) and radioimmunoassay confirmed hormonal bioactivity. The sham (S) group with placebo implant …

Dietary Intake And Health Status Of Immigrants And Non-Immigrants In Ontario And Quebec, Joceline Pomerleau

Digitized Theses

Introduction: Dietary intake and health status of immigrants to various countries are often different from those of non-immigrants living in these countries. Because the diversity of the immigrants and ethnic minorities in Canada is increasing, the association of place of birth with nutrition and health among Canadians needs to be investigated.;Methods: Cross-sectional data from the 1990 Ontario Health Survey (OHS) and the 1990 Quebec Heart Health and Nutrition Survey (QHHNS) were used. A selection of nutritional (dietary, anthropometric, knowledge variables) and health (health problems, lipidemia, consultations with health professionals, cut-down/bed-days, self-perceived health) outcomes were examined among adult respondents (OHS: n …