Tanta University, Egypt
Good nutrition is essential for the improvement of the patient health. Providing care for the sick is the primary purpose for which the hospital exists. All aspects of the hospital operation must be developed with the focus centered on the patient and his needs. This study was conducted to evaluate the nutritional care given to patients with chronic diseases admitted at Tanta University Hospitals, in Tanta city, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. Non probability purposive sample technique was used to include three hundred hospitalized adult patients above twenty years old suffering from diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hepatitis diseases admitted at Internal Medicine, Chest and Tropical Medicine Departments at Tanta University Hospital for a period of one year. The studied cases were interviewed to fill a specially designed questionnaire sheet included the following items: patientʼs history and sociodemographic data, assessment of the nutritional status of patients, patient satisfaction, assessment of nutritional services conducted by Tanta University Hospital. Comparing nutritional status of patients at admission and at leaving the hospital; a decrease in BMI during the period of hospitalization and the food intake of patients was affected during the period of hospitalization. The majority of patients were satisfied by the food given from the hospital kitchen. The applied food safety measures were poor in both university kitchens. It was evident that nutritional status of patients were affected during the period of hospitalization, so emphasis on improving the nutritional care of hospitals and application of food safety measures in hospital kitchens.
Biography:
Noha M. Elghazally working as a lecturer of public health and community medicine at faculty of medicine Tanta University in Egypt. She had ten years of experience in research, teaching and administration both in hospitals and educational institutions. She is specified in the field of clinical nutrition. She had many researches in this field.
1Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
2International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Morocco
3National Institute of Agricultural Research, Morocco
Barley is one of the oldest domesticated crop in the word, although barley food uses remains important only in some cultures particularly in Asia and northern Africa. Whereas recently the consumer has become aware of the interest of barley as a food grain because of his impressive health benefits, and as a major source of soluble and insoluble fibers, also his antioxidant activity. The objective of this study is to investigate the genetic variation in a population of barleyʼs wild relatives. Thus, beta-glucan, and micronutrient concentration were determined. Accessions of wild relatives were grown under field conditions for multiplication within two years, and then characterized for beta-glucan, and micronutrient concentration. The population exhibited a wide range of variation for these traits, further some accessions had shown high levels of beta-glucan and micronutrient. This study demonstrates the variation of beta-glucan and micronutrient concentration in wild barley and the interest of genotyping to underline genes controlling these traits.
Biography:
Fadwa ELOUADI is a PhD student in genetics and biometrics laboratory at Ibn Tofail University, engineer in Food Industry from Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute. Actually working on her PhD project atthe International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) on the characterization of nutritional and technologicalquality of barley genetic resources and breeding germplasm to provide a scientific basis to promote the human consumption of barley in Morocco.
ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, India
With the changing lifestyle, nutrition along with health benefits has been a major criterion for food choices among the consumers. Fermented foods, owing to their health benefits and palatability are now having a niche market. Whey is a by-product of the cheese/ paneer making industry which presents about 85-95% of the milk volume. Whey usage for the production of fermented beverage results in reduction of pollution potential, apart from producing a value-added product. Utilization of whey in the preparation of kefir will potentially enhance the functionality of the product. Kefir is a lactic fermented, viscous, self-carbonated beverage with a slight alcohol contentproduced by the symbiotic fermentation of bacteria and yeast present in the kefir grains. The peptides, bactericides, organic acids and exopolysaccharides produced during fermentation have demonstrated a wide array of health benefits like improved gastro intestinal health, increased mineral adsorption, cholesterol metabolism, anti -carcinogenic, immune stimulating, skin care and anti-ageing properties. Whey kefir drink with the addition of 4% inulin, 1% whey protein concentrate fortified with 30 ppm Zinc sulphate and 20 ppm iron using US kefir grains resulted in good nutritive kefir which improves its health value. Inulin acts as both, soluble dietary fiber and prebiotic activity in the colon. Iron has an important role in the transport of oxygen and increases hemoglobin level thereby alleviating anemia. Zinc is a powerful antioxidant, anti ageing agent and maintains the ideal hormone levels. The exotic, refreshing flavor, thirst quenching and prickly sensation of fortified whey kefir can be ascribed to its ethanol and carbon dioxide contents which also improves its shelf life. Fortified wheykefir hasresultedin an enhanced overall nutritive value of the product and thus can serve as an alternative to commercial carbonated soft drinks.
Energy Research Institute (ERI), United Kingdom
A greenhouse is essentially an enclosed structure, which traps the short wavelength solar radiation and stores the long wavelength thermal radiation to create a favourable microclimate for higher productivity. The sunʼs radiation incident on the greenhouse has two parts: direct radiation and an associated diffuse sky radiation. The diffuse part is not focused by the lenses and goes right through Frensel lenses onto the surface of the absorbers. This energy is absorbed and transformed into heat, which is then transported via the liquid medium in copper pipes to the water (heat) storage tanks or, if used, open fish tanks. In this way, an optimal temperature for both plant cultivation and fish production can be maintained. Stable plant growth conditions are light, temperature and air humidity. Light for the photosynthesis of plants comes from the diffuse radiation, which is without substantial fluctuations and variation throughout most of the day. The air temperature inside the greenhouse is one of the factors that have an influence on the precocity of production. The selective collector acts in a more perceptible way on extreme air temperatures inside the greenhouse. Hence, the system makes it possible to avoid the excessive deviation of the temperature inside the greenhouse and provides a favourable microclimate for the precocity of the culture. Sediment and some associated water from the sediment traps are used as organic fertiliser for the plant cultivation. The present trend in greenhouse cultivation is to extend the crop production season in order to maximise use of the equipment and increase annual productivity and profitability. However, in many Mediterranean greenhouses, such practices are limited because the improper cooling methods (mainly natural or forced ventilation) used do not provide the desired micro-climatic condition during the summer of a composite climate. Also, some of these greenhouses have been built where the meteorological conditions require some heating during the winter, particularly at night. The worst scenario is during the winter months when relatively large difference in temperature between day and night occurs. However, overheating of the greenhouse during the day is common, even in winter, requiring ventilation of the structure. Hence, several techniques have been proposed for the storage of the solar energy received by the greenhouse during the day and its use to heat the structure at night. Reviews of such techniques are presented in this chapter. Air or water can be used for heat transport. The circulating water is heated during the day via two processes. The water absorbs part of the infrared radiation of the solar spectrum. Since the water is transparent in the visible region, they do not compete with the plants that need it. Alternatively, the water exchanges heat with the greenhouse air through the walls. At night, if the greenhouse temperature goes down below a specified value, the water begins to circulate acting as heat transfer surfaces heating the air in the greenhouse. This chapter describes various designs of low energy greenhouses. It also, outlines the effect of dense urban building nature on energy consumption, and its contribution to climate change. Measures, which would help to save energy in greenhouses, are also presented. It also enabled the minimisation of temperature variation and, hence avoided the hazard of any sudden climatic change inside the greenhouse.
Keywords: Greenhouse environment; energy efficient comfort; ventilation; humidity: sustainable environmental impact.
Feelsofts, India
Sleep deprivation, stress, poor quality sleep, etc are the rising problems of the today generation. Most of the time these problems are treated with the help of anti depressants, anti anxiety medicines like alprazolam, etc. Instead on to going for drug related therapies we here by focus on to hormones by means of food nutrition science and increase levels of hormones such as Tryptophan that can help for good sleep and boost the quality of sleep. For the above we made a case study and tracked sleep cycles with fitbit device supplementing it with Cashewnut food to see improvements sleep quality. We used carbohydrate with tryptophan to greater uptake of tryptophan across the blood-brain barrier into the cerebrospinal fluid. We found good improvements.
Keywords: Tryptophan, Serotonin, Melatonin, Circadian rhythms
1University of Alneelain, Sudan
2Sudan University of Sciences and Technology, Sudan
The present study conducted to evaluate the effect of antimicrobial characteristics of hot and sweet pepper on some spoilage organisms of Fessiekh (local Sudanese fermented salted fish (Hydrocynus spp)) products. The crude Fessiekh was treated with pepper fruits as dried powder of two types of pepper (fruit-1Capsicum anunum – sweet pepper, fruit -2 Capsicum frutescens – hot pepper) as natural conserved material. The chemical composition of crude and treated Fessiekh were significantly different with (P< 0.01) in moisture, (P< 0.05) in ash and pH, and had no significant differences in both protein and fat. The total viable counts in the first four days after adding of pepper fruits were decreased and showed high significant differences (P< 0.01) between the two types of pepper fruits and the hot one was the most effective on the total viable counts which decreased from 43.4 ×103± 1.3 ×103 at first day to 4.5 ×103 ± 1×103 after 96 hr, the Staph spp test showed positive results with counts 7.6 ×103 for crude, and 21.9 ×103 for sweet pepper treated Fessiekh and negative for hot pepper treated Feesiekh. The Listeria spp. test was positive for Fessiekh treated and negative for crude Fessiekh samples, while the Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogens had no effects on all samples. The study conclude that the addition of pepper fruits either sweet or hot will affect the microbial load by reduced it and raise the quality of Fessiekh products in Sudan.
Keywords: Fessiekh, salted fish, Hydrocynus spp., quality, pepper, antimicrobial.
Biography:
Afra Abdelaziz Abdalla Ahmed is currently working as a lecturer in Department of Fish Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Technology and Fish Science, AL-Neelain University. She obtained Degree in Faculty of Agricultural Technology and Fish Science, AL-Neelain University, 2006 and Masters in Fish Science Technology, Sudan University of Science and Technology, 2010. Currently she is pursuing Ph. D. in University of Khartoum.
1Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2CERVO Brain Research Center, Canada
3Lebanese University, Lebanon
Impaired adult neurogenesis has been associated with aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Recent studies indicated that new cells in the hypothalamus are affected by diet. On the other hand, WHO highlighted the importance of herbal medicine as their estimation imply that 80% of the worldʼs population prefers to use herbal therapy safe and without side effects. Our previous in vitro study showed that Safflower Seed Oil (SSO), as a rich source of Linoleic Acid (LA; 73.64%), markedly increased both proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells in vitro. In the present study, we translated our in vitro study to current in vivo study to study the effect of SSO on hypothalamic neurogenesis and then compare its potential with synthetic LA.
Method: Animals were divided into four groups (n =10 per group) as follows: (i) control mice (Ctrl); (ii) Vehicle mice (Vehicle), received an equal volume of solution containing 0.5% DMSO solvent (iii) synthetic linoleic acid -treated mice (300 mg/kg) (LA) and (iv) safflower seed oil -treated mice (407.4 mg/kg) (SSO) orally. after eight weeks animals sacrified and removed brain for culture, Eliza and immunohistochemical analysis.
The results showed that administration of SSO for 8 weeks in adult mice leads to promotion in NSCs proliferation isolated from SSO treated mice, compared to vehicle. Quantitative data of immunofluorescent staining of hypothalamus showed though the frequency of astrocytes (GFAP+ cells) are not affected by LA and SSO, the frequency of immature (DCX+ cells) and mature (NeuN+ cells) neurons significantly increased in LA and SSO treated mice, compared to vehicle. Furthermore, it was observed that both LA and SSO causes a significant increase in the serum level of Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF). In all experiments SSO acted more potent than LA.
In conclusion, while LA and more effectively SSO increased the hypothalamic proliferation and neurogenesis. Give the importance of stimulating adults neurogenesis as well as the importance of herbal supplements in health, we introduce SSO as a potent herbal candidates to stimulate adult hypothalamic neurogenesis that also need further experimental and clinical study for further clarification of its mechanistic pathways.
Keywords: safflower seed oil; linoleic acid; neurogenesis; hypothalamus
Biography:
Amir Ghanbari graduated in anatomical sciences in PhD course in 2014 and currently works at the department of anatomy of Yasuj University of Medical Sciences of Iran. He do research on Neurosciences especially neural stem cells and neuro degenerative disease. One the his interest subject is the effect of nutrition on organ hemostasis and disease.
South Carolina State University, USA
Arteriovenous malformation tumors are tumors that can form inside or outside the body. These tumors can take the blood supply needed for brain and heart function. Therefore, some of the complications may be but not limited to strokes, heart attacks, blood clots. These tumors can go years without being detected in your body and these tumors can disfigure your body. During the presentation, the presenter will show certain examples of the tumors and the effects on the body. The presenter will discuss the two year and present journey of being treated for an AVM. Participants will obtain information on healthy eating and foods that can serve to lessen side effects. In addition to food information, lifelong nutrition alternatives will be shared. Based on the “Making Healthy Choices” information, the presenter will discuss foods that may decrease the incidences of illnesses and disease. Likewise presenters will receive a list of articles and studies that are being conducted related to diagnosing AVMs.
Biography:
Dr. Cassandra Sligh Conway is a Full Professor at South Carolina State University. She have book chapters, journal articles, one book in press through IGI publication entitled, Faculty Mentorship at HBCUS (February 2018, in press), and several refereed journal articles. She has been a faculty member, Chair, and Coordinator at SCSU. She teaches in the Rehabilitation Counseling program.
1AL Neelain University, Sudan
2Fisheries Research Centre, Sudan The present study was performed to investigate the influence of seasonal storage (average air temperatures 37°C for summer, 30°C flood & 27°C winter) on chemical composition and micro flora of salted Schilbe sp. Moisture, dry matter, ash, crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber, pH and mineral contents (Phosphorus, Iron, Copper, Calcium, Sodium and Potassium) were analyzed. Chemical composition was reduced after salting during the storage in the different seasons and the reduction was statistically significant (P<0.05). Total viable bacteria, total Staphylococcus sp., Micrococcus sp. and yeast-molds were also measured to examine the microbial quality during storage time. Staphylococcus sp was the dominant species; no yeast and mold were detected during the storage period. The total viable counts of bacteria were reduced during the storage time. Effect of seasonality on the nutritive value of the Schilbe species showed a significant difference, but winter season (27°C) showed a better quality of the product compared to higher degrees (i.e. at summer & autumn season respectively).
Keywords: Seasons, Nutritive value, Microflora and Schilbe sp.
Biography:
Egbal Osman Ahmed currently working as an Associate Professor in University of Alneelain, Faculty of Agriculture technology and Fish sciences, Khartoum-Sudan.
1İstanbul SabahattinZaim University, Turkey
2Hacettepe University, Turkey
3YuksekIhtisas University, Turkey
Gluten-free and casein free (GFCF) diet implementation is one of the alternative treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Although it is not proven yet, some studies suggest that these individuals suffer from gut and blood brain barrier (BBB) permeability. In some studies it was shown that when they ingest gladin and/or casein containing foods, brain specific inflammation markers can be seen in their blood.
Our study is a systematic review. In our study, studies were searched in the Medline, Cochrane and Ebscohost databases. For the studies, autism, autism spectrum disorders, gluten free, casein free, intervention were used as search keywords. Studies were included in our review based on conditions of a) being conducted with children with autism spectrum disorder and including at least 1 participant, b) having implementation of diets where gluten and/or casein is reduced or removed, c) being an intervention study, d) investigating changes in behavior of children with autism. This study was prepared in line with PRISMA guidelines standardized with the aim of preparing and publishing systematic reviews. 8 case reports, 4 clinical interventions without any control groups, 5 single blind and 4 double blind randomized control trials were included in our study. According to the included studies, age and duration of the diet are the two most important determinants. On the other hand, not only gluten, but also wheat should be removed completely from the diet because gluten sensitive individuals can also be susceptible to other components in the wheat.
Still, controlled studies with longer intervention periods and more participants are needed in the literature.
Biography:
İlker PAZARBAŞI was graduated from department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Hacettepe University, Turkey. He finished his master in 2015 (Hacettepe University Nutrition Sciences Program) and since 2016 he has been doing his PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism in Exercise Program, Hacettepe University. From 2012 to 2016 he worked as research assistant in Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Hacettepe University. Since 2016 he has been working as a researcher and lecturer in Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. His personal interest is interaction between eating patterns and chronic dieases, especially neurological diseases.
1Ministry of Agriculture, Sri Lanka
2University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
3Natureʼs Beauty Creations, Sri Lanka
Edible mushrooms are an excellent source good quality protein particularly important to a vegetarian diet to supplement and compliment the protein requirement of less-privileged section of the society. Although therapeutic properties of edible mushrooms are well documented in other countries, similar information is scanty in Sri Lanka. This scenario has led many to become sceptical whether food of fungal origin could hold any nutritional and medicinal promise despite the fact that edible mushrooms are emerging as a functional food in several communities. Therefore a need prevails to raise awareness about the dietary importance of mushrooms based on their anti- oxidant properties. An investigation was carried out to ascertain functional attributes of four selected mushrooms in terms of their free radical scavenging activity. These include Pleurotus ostresus, Ganoderma lucidum, Calocybe indica and Calocybe spp. The anti-oxidant activity of the ethanolic and methanolic extract of the above mushrooms on the stable radical 1, 1diphenyl-2 picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) was determined. Different concentrations of sample were compared with Ascorbic acid and Quercetin as standards. Antioxidant capacity of all the tested mushrooms obtained from three different growth substrates namely sawdust mixed with spent mushroom 1:1(SD+SMS), SD+ paddy straw1:1 (SD+PS) and conventional SD substrate shows a IC50 value of ≤ 100µl/ml suggesting that all four tested mushrooms possess moderate DPPH scavenging activity compared to Ascorbic acid and Quercetin. Scientific elucidation of medicinal attributes of Sri Lankan cultivated mushrooms would certainly trigger the demand for edible mushrooms as a functional food.
Biography:
Janakie Chintha Rajapakse is a researcher by profession and counts 30 years of experience in the field of Mushroom Science, Microbiology and Plant pathology. She holds a BSc. (Hons.) degree in Agriculture from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka and Masterʼs degree in Agricultural studies from University of Queensland, Australia. Currently she is pursuing doctoral studies at University of Colombo in Sri Lanka pertaining to bio chemical analysis of selected mushrooms and mushroom derived product development. She has several publications to her credit. Currently she is serving as the Director of Agriculture in Kalutara district in the western province of Sri Lanka.
1Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
2International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Morocco
Bread wheat is one of the most important and widely grown food crops and its consumption is increasing world-wide, which makes people care more about quality and force processors to use it with specific quality attributes. Eighteen of the moroccan varieties of bread wheat from INRA, SONACOS and ICARDA are tested for agronomic and quality traits for two years 2016 and 2017. For each of the cultivars yield, thousand kernel weight, test weight, proteins, moisture, SDS sedimentation index, dough strength, stability, water absorption were assessed. High molecular weight glutenins were extracted from whole meal flour and electrophoresis was carried out. The yield was between 7,56 and 13,19 t/ha in 2016 and 23,33 and 39,67 t/ha in 2017the proteins content ranged between 9,40 and 14,80% for 2016 and 13,8 and 21,0% for 2017. There was a significant correlation between the majority of the traits and the grain protein content. However the results shows that the quality of the moroccan varieties still very low and many efforts should be made to improve the local quality for bread making and insure a good yield to meet the population needs and insure the self-sufficiency. Wheat breeders are strongly encouraged to overcome the challenge that face the cultivation of wheat and create new varieties that would be tolerant to drought, resistant to dome diseases and with a good quality.
Biography:
Kenza Eddakir is a PhD student in Agro physiology, Biotechnology, Environment and quality laboratory at Ibn Tofail University, Engineer in food industry from Hassan ii Agronomic and Veterinary Institute. Actually working on her PhD project at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) on the diversity and association mapping of grain quality traits in common wheat (triticumaestivum, l).
BioNatural Healing College, USA
Food is a powerful natural medicine; each bite we consume is either one step toward health or one step toward health problem. The obesity dilemma is a confusing issue of concern to the public especially due to them complaining about their health due to excess fat as well as their body shape, in their daily life. In 2014, 1.9 billion adults were overweight and 600 million adults were obese, representing 39 percent and 13 percent of the global adult population respectively as the study reported. This means that more than half of the adult population on the planet is getting fatter than necessary for optimal health. Additionally, 42 million children younger than 5 years of age were overweight or obese in 2013. Many factors involved in inducing obesity. The human body with its complex nature requires food commodities that the body needs to carry out our biological processes. In the physical sense, the human body is like a self-regulating biochemical machine, maintaining the health of this essential self-regulating machine for proper functions is crucially important. Questions arise in our mind: What is wrong with our diet and lifestyle? How can we have a healthy lifestyle? However, the aim of this study in reviewing numerous literatures and explore our understanding of how important plantbased flavonoids and their constituents in is the preventing of obesity and especially Type 2 diabetes.
Biography:
Dr. M Nadir Sidiqi is the President/Dean of Academics of the BioNatural Healing College (Online Learning) non-profit based in California, USA. He was the CEO/president of Organic Ecocare Inc., from July 2008 to December 2014. Since, 2005, Dr. Sidiqi is an instructor for the State of California Department of Pesticide Regulation, provide continuing education. Remained from September 2012 to May 2013 as a host on Iman TV. Dr. Sidiqi is an author, writer, speaker, and an invited speaker/Chair session at several International conferences, Afghanistan, France, Egypt, and India. He obtained M.S. degree in Plant Sciences California State Polytechnic University, second MS degree in Biology NMSU, his Ph.D., (Agriculture Science) from AIU and earned second Ph.D. (Natural Medicine) Kingdom College of Natural Health.
Periyar university, India
Breast milk is the ideal food for infants during the first six months of life. After about 6 month of age the child needs supplementary feeding. Barnyard millet is chosen or used because of it affordability and produce good yields of grains under unfavorable conditions compared to other crops. Soy bean is a legume yet to be widely utilized as a plant protein. The purpose of the study was to produce a low cost weaning food that is nutritionally adequate and acceptable by the infants. Barnyard millet and defatted Soya flour were processed into flour supplemented with sugar, skim milk powder, cardamom, poppy seeds, tapioca starch and Vitamin and Mineral premix and blended into diet 1, 2, 3 and 4 used for preparing weaning food. The physical parameters, proximate, mineral, amino acid, fatty acid compositions, anti-nutritional factors and organoleptic evaluation along with a standard commercial infant formula were determined using standard procedures. Results shows that the formulated weaning diets D1, D2, D3 and D4 had water absorption capacity ranged between 0.11-0.30 percent, bulk density (0.49-0.54%), Carbohydrate (70.73% to 72.95%), protein content (17-18%) and fat content (3.52 to 3.05%). The formulated diets have more minerals such as iron, zinc, copper, potassium and amino acids than the commercial infant formula. Anti-nutritional values, revealed oxalate (0.37-0.94 mg/100gm) and phytate, Saponin, alkaloid, flavonoids, cyanogenic glycoside and trypsin inhibitor ranged between 0.55-0.92mg/100g, 56-69.56mg/100g, 201.78-263.96mg/100g, 170.20-241.49mg/100g, 20.39-29.52mg/100g and 5.21-7.49mg/100g respectively were according to standard recommended for the complementary food. The organoleptic evaluation of the formulated diets were similar than that of the standard. Based on the results of various parameters of diet mixes, it is recommended for use in households to prevent and restore normal health in children suffering from malnutrition and should be manufactured commercially by food industries.
Biography:
Dr. P. Nazni obtained Doctorate in Food Science and Nutrition and working as Professor and Head in the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Periyar University, Salem, Tamilnadu, India. She is having more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. She is a recipient of 12 awards sponsored by various national and international organizations. She has presented more than 210 research papers in various National and International Seminars/Conferences and has published 94 research papers in referred National and International journals. She has been a resource person and delivered invited talks in 122 seminars/ conference/ workshops both national and international. She has visited various countries like Canada, Australia, South Africa, Czech Republic, Thailand, UAE and Iran for her invited talks and paper presentations. She has organized around 43 National and International conferences in various capacities. She has completed Five Major research projects funded by UGC, DST, RSSDI and ICMR and 11 Minor research projects and currently working with four major projects with the worth of Rs.1.7 crores. She has written seven books published by various reputed publications. She has guided 66 M.Sc, 48 M.Phil and 11 Ph. D candidates with 8 Ph.D students under guidance. She has been Editorial board member in various reputed Food science and Nutrition journalʼs. She is a Managing Editor of an International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences, published by IIFANS and she is also having membership in various reputed Professional Bodies both national and international level.
University of the Philippines Visayas, Philippines
A cross-sectional community based survey was conducted to determine the impact of food insecurity to the nutritional status. The Radimer/Cornell Hunger Scale was utilized to measure food insecurity. The key adaptations to the nine-item Radimer/Cornell items included translation to Filipino, and constructing the items as questions rather than statements. Anthropometric measurements were assessed to determine the nutritional status of the children which were consequently correlated to each householdʼs state of food security. The nutritional status data was gathered from 159 children aged 6 to 71 months residing in Barangay Nabitasan, Leganes, Iloilo, Philippines. The respondents for the Radimer/Cornell Questionnaire were the respective mothers or guardians of the children. Results showed that 42.1% of the children suffer from malnutrition and 73% of the households were classified as food insecure. Food insecurity in the household has a significant association with the nutritional status of the children. Food secure children are 3 times more likely to have a normal nutritional status as compared to those who are food insecure. A logistics regression model found that increase in annual family income, and having both market and alternative food sources increases the likelihood of being food secure. However, increase in number of children was associated with a decreased likelihood of being food secure. Our findings suggested that food insecurity is directly associated with poor nutritional status of children aged 6 to 71 months within the scope of the study.
Biography:
Dr. Philip Ian Padilla is a Professor of Microbiology and the former University of the Philippines Faculty Regent. He was the former Chair of the Division of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, and former Director of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, UP Visayas. He was a graduate of UP Visayas (BS Biology, cum laude), UP College of Medicine (MD), and Nagasaki Universityʼs Institute of Tropical Medicine (PhD). He was trained as a post-doctoral research fellow (Biochemistry and Cell Biology) at the Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Fundacion Azti, Spain
Introduction: Senior population presents specific nutritional and physiological requirements linked to health status that determine the need to develop hydration promoting food products. Due to masticatory difficulties associated with ageing, is necessary to modify texture properties of food products to assure a safe consumption.
Daily personalized nutrition, through the design of texture modified ready-to-eat food products with high nutritional and sensory quality, plays an important role in disease prevention and promotion of well-being in the elderly.
Objetive: Development of ready-to-eat textured palatable and pasteurized apple juices to promote hydration in the adult and senior population with dysphagia and study the feasibility of their industrialization.
Methodology: Application of formulation techniques to modify and control food texture based in visco elasticity modulating properties of hydrocolloids in commercial fruit juices. Design of processing parameters and industrial steps to obtain stabilized prototypes along shelf-life. Texture and sensory properties characterized by means of textural (viscosity, consistency and flow) and physico-chemical (colour and appearance) analysis.
Results: According to International texture scales for thickened drinks, six different formulations of pasteurized modified-textured apple juices were developed at pilot plant scale analyzing sensory profile and texture stability.
Conclusions: There is a lack of commercial ready-to-eat texture modified products to be included in the daily menu of older people or consumers affected by chronic diseases and the ageing process. Availability of texture modified food solutions with improved sensory (flavor, texture) characteristics might have a positive effect in psychological satisfaction and enhance quality of life.
Biography:
Raquel Llorente (BSc in Pharmacy and in Food Science and Food Technology, female). Expertise in new food products development and food processing technologies. She has been involved in R&D&i activities and technology transfer to the food industry for 16 years. She has participated in 35 RTD projects for different public-private organizations in the Food Industry, and is author of 2 food processing patents, both of them industrially exploited.
Indian Council of Medical Research, India
Background: Stress is the bodyʼs response to any physical or emotional changes in life in form of demands or pressures. Every year billions of rupees are lost due to various problems related to stress directly or indirectly. The strategies to manage this menace at individual and community level should be planned.
Objectives: The broad objective of the study was to find out perceived stress among the school going adolescents from different socio-economic backgrounds.
Methodology (Assessment, Diagnosis and Intervention): Four types of schools (Two private and Two Government Schools) were shortlisted, from which 200 students (50 students each) of 12th standard (aged 15-20 years) were included. Stress Response Checklist and Perceived Stress Scale were used to elicit desired information.
Results: Stress response was not different in both genders. Numbers of students with high stress were more in government schools. From this study it was concluded that the selected private schools gender showed a positive significant stress levels than government school respondents. There was no significant difference among government and private schools with relation to problems with parents, as role of student or peer group. But students from private schools were more concerned about future, which was manifested as stress.
Biography:
Dr. Ravinder Singh, a medical graduate has been trained in public health and medical research. Currently, he is working as Scientist C, Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi. He was awarded mastersʼ and doctorate degree by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on “Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies among Adolescents”. Presently, he also works on establishment of Medical Technology Assessment Board under Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
University of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal, KSA
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Due to renowned medicinal properties, Ginger rhizomes (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) used traditionally in the treatment of arthritis, rheumatism, muscular aches, constipation, hypertension, dementia, fever, and infectious diseases. As an antiemetic, Ginger is consumed by approximately 80% of pregnant women to treat nausea and vomiting of early pregnancy.
Aim of the study: This study designed to evaluate the impact of ginger extract on the estrous cycle and implantation.
Materials and Methods: Four experimental episodes were identified. One considered the main study of outcomes and lasted 90 days; one lasted 35 days and considered the estrous cycle; while the third and fourth intended antifertility and abortifacient and continued 20 days for each. Mice dosed Ginger orally at 0, 11.4, 22.9, 34.3or 51.4 mg/kgbw/day (GNC, GN1, GN2, GN3, GN4, respectively).
Results: GN3 and GN4 dams showed maternal toxicity. High dose significantly reduced the number of live fetuses and increased fetal death and resorption. Mice treated with 51.4 mg/kgbw/day displayed significant decreases in implantation sites. At a dose of 51.4 mg/kgbw/day, Ginger prolonged the length of estrous cycle with a significant decrease in the duration of diestrous-metestrus (luteal) phase, prolonged proestrus-estrus (ovulatory) phase and reduced the number of cycles as well. Therefore, Ginger impair the normal growth of corpus luteum because of progesterone insufficiency during early pregnancy. The observed-adverse-effect dose set at 51.4 mg/kgbw, but no-observed-adverse-effect dose set at 11.4 and 22.9 mg/kgbw.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that Ginger can disrupt the estrous cycle and blastocyst implantation without teratogenesis.
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, India
Even with the swashbuckling claim on growth and prosperity on the present civilization, the other side of this prosperity is so bleak and disastrous that have no match for the past centuries even. Out of around 7 billion population of the world, 1.5 billion are hungry. They donʼt have adequate access to food, if it is there; the quality doesnʼt stand anywhere near to fulfil their calorie requirement. In India 350 million people are living below the poverty line and of them; 200 million people have become victim of moderate to extreme hunger indexes. 42 per cent of the new born babies are under weight. 60 per cent of the children are suffering from moderate to high level of anaemia experiencing stunted growth. Beyond the curtain of hunger, there is another problem that is chronic hunger. Based on hunger index we the nation (India) is occupying 100th position in the world (IFPRI Report, 2017). The scenario of chronic hunger is even worse and astoundingly it is worse than African nations as well. Hunger is undoubted related to poverty and poverty is one of the many reasons of hunger. The study has been conducted on 100 ICDS semi urban beneficiaries near Kolkata, West Bengal, who confronting with abject poverty and chilling hunger. The combination of three social decadentsʼ viz. hunger, poverty and voice has been inextricably tuned. The regression effect of silence on both hunger and poverty is isochronous and significant. This paper elicits the interrelation among hunger poverty and silence, the trifoliate evil who is restraining an empty stomach from having food; a houseless from having roof. Misinformation, no information, being unvoiced is detrimental. The neo information devices with unequal access range are vitiating the situation further. This section of the population is remaining un-tuned to the sources of information and becoming the object of being selectively uninformed. To redress the situation and for having an inclusive growth s, empowerment and entitlement of the poor should be done with significant policy formulation and modifications.
Keywords: Chronic Hunger, Empowerment, Entitlement, Inclusive Growth, Hunger, Neo information devices, Poverty.
Biography:
Dr. S.K. Acharya, born on 6th October, 1960, has been in teaching, research and extension over 30 years. An erudite teacher and an elegant speaker, Prof. Acharya is internationally acclaimed for his unique research domain of Social Entropy and Energy Metabolism, poverty, and Environmental Sociology. He has authored Book Publication: 67 books authored and 148 research papers so far on Participatory Planning; Value addition and quality management, Natural Resource Management; Fish bio-diversity; Income and Livelihood; Visited Italy, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. He delivered nine Key note address at National and International Conferences.
SNDT Womenʼs University, India
The study describes one paediatric patient of 72 months of age with refractory epilepsy, treated with classical ketogenic diet (CKD). CKD is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, normal protein diet with an established efficacy for treating refractory epilepsy in paediatric population. Refractory epilepsy is defined as continuous seizures despite administration of 3 consecutive anti-epileptic drugs. The patient with diagnostic criteria of refractory epilepsy was seen at our neurology clinic and placed on CKD for 6 months to observe the efficacy and tolerability of the diet in controlling the seizures. The intervention included nutritional counseling, administration of ketogenic diet, assessing and improving the quality of life of the family and monitoring the vital biochemical parameters during the treatment. The child with progressive encephalopathy associated with repeated seizure episodes had a 75% seizure reduction in first 3 months and 90% seizure reduction along with remarkable cognitive development in last 3 months of the intervention. The number of anti-epileptic drugs has reduced from 5 to 2. The quality of life of the patient and the family is improved as the child started walking, communicating and responding to her parents. There were no reported incidents of nausea, vomiting, constipation or loose motions, which are typical side effects related to ketogenic diet administration as per several trials. The study suggests that the classical ketogenic diet is an effective and well-tolerated alternative treatment option for patients with refractory epilepsy and should be considered as a potential course of treatment in managing the disorder.
Biography:
Subhasree Ray is a PhD scholar from the department of Food Science & Nutrition, SNDT Womenʼs University, Mumbai, India. Her research areas include ketogenic diet therapy, dietary management of neurodegenerative diseases, medical nutrition therapy, public health nutrition, food chemistry, probiotics, food toxicology and nutrigenomics. She has published 15 research articles so far and attended more than 12 National and International conferences. She has worked as one of the senior consultants in corporate health & wellness. She has also worked in the management of severe acute malnutrition along with the Govt. of India and UNICEF.
National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, India
The study evaluated the effect of Sargassum fusiforme (SF) and Ulva lactuca (UL) on lipid profile and anti-oxidative biomarkers in diet induced hypercholesterolemic (high fat high cholesterol (HFHC) diet with 15% saturated fat and 0.5% cholesterol and) wistar strain. Atorvastatin (10mg/kg body weight) was used as reference drug. The dietary regime was followed for a period of 9 weeks. The diet of the treatment groups included seaweeds at a dose level of 5% singly and at 2.5% in 1:1 ratio in blends. The dietary administration of both the seaweeds resulted in significant (p ≤ 0.05) improvement in nutritional parameters (body weight and relative liver weight). The lipid lipoprotein fraction showed marked (p ≤ 0.05) improvement in SF and UL groups when fed singly and in blends as compared to the HFHC group. However, the group fed SF showed more pronounced effect. On the contrary, the rats rendered with HFHC diet showed increase in atherogenic parameters. Antihyperlipidemic effect of both seaweeds was comparable to control and atorvastatin treated rats. Additionally, blood glucose level was reduced by 65% indicating regulated glucose metabolism which is generally altered in hyperlipidemic and hypercholesterolemic state. Similar trend was observed in serum antioxidative enzymes in rats fed on seaweeds. The superoxide dismutase, catalase, reduced glutathione and glutathione peroxidise increased significantly (p ≤ 0.05) with concomitant decrease in lipid peroxides. This effect could be due to protective effect of bioactive compounds present in seaweeds on the free radical mediated oxidative stress induced by HFHC diet. Thus, the present study demonstrated that consumption of seaweeds have an impact on nutritional parameters, lipid profile and oxidative stress biomarkers. However, the mechanism involved need to be studied in detail along with the bioavailability of the bioactive compounds in these seaweeds responsible for possible health benefits.
Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine
A comparative analysis of the mineral profile (MP) in hair in a practically healthy children of school age (6-18 years old), who are residents of different regions of East Ukraine was monitored. 235 children who live in ecologically unfavorable areas (group I) and 201 children living in relatively ecologically favorable regions (group II) of East Ukraine were examined.
MP of children of the 1st group was characterized by significant reduction of essential microelements (ME): Ca, Zn, I and Mn, against a background of higher levels of potentionally toxic ME: Ni, Cr, Cd and Rb and toxic ME - Pb, Sr and As. The analysis of second group showed an imbalance of the essential elements with decreasing of Ca, Zn, Mg, P and significant decreasing of essential ME - Fe.
It has been also shown evidenced deterioration of the mineral profile in children aged 6-11 owing to a higher level of potentially toxic ME in contrast to children of the older age group.
During a past decade, children of the East Ukraine developed reduction of Zn, Mn, and Ca and elevations in the levels of Pb, Al, Sr, Ni, Cd and this is explained by the state of the ecological environment of a large industrial region. There is no doubt that an unfavorable state of the environment creates a specific mineral profile and causes the mineral imbalance even in conditionally healthy children, which in turn may become the basis for the formation and development of chronic pathology in children.
Biography:
Dr. Tetyana Frolova has been graduated Pediatric faculty of the Kharkiv Medical Institute in 1991 with the speciality Pediatrics. Since 2004 – till now-Head of the department of Propaedeutics of Pediatrics No.1 of Kharkiv National Medical University. Since 2005 she is the head of the Regional Medical Diagnostic Center of metabolic disorders of bone tissue in children. In 2007- defended a dissertation for the degree of a doctor of medical sciences. In 2008, she received the title of professor at the Department of Propedeutics of Pediatrics No.1 of Kharkiv National Medical University.
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