Caffeine improves biochemical and specific performance after judo training: a double-blind crossover study in a real judo training situation
Nutritional ergogenic aids are foods or nutrients that can improve physical performance. Among these foods with ergogenic properties, caffeine has shown that it can increase the fat catabolism, strength, and i... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 23, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kelvin Euton Oliveira Carmo, Diego Ign ácio Valenzuela Pérez, Charles Nardelli Valido, Jymmys Lopes dos Santos, Bianca Miarka, Raquel Simões Mendes-Netto, Marina Macedo Rodrigues Leite, Naiara Ribeiro Antoniêtto, Esteban Ariel Aedo-Muñoz and Ciro Jos Tags: Research Source Type: research

Trends in prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Zhejiang Province, China, 2016 –2018
Limited population-based studies have investigated the secular trend of prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in mainland China. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the prevalence of GDM and ti... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 19, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Meng Wang, Ru-Ying Hu, Wei-Wei Gong, Jin Pan, Fang-Rong Fei, Hao Wang, Xiao-Yan Zhou, Jie-Ming Zhong and Min Yu Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ferulic acid alleviates lipotoxicity-induced hepatocellular death through the SIRT1-regulated autophagy pathway and independently of AMPK and Akt in AML-12 hepatocytes
Lipotoxicity-induced cell death plays a detrimental role in the pathogenesis of metabolic diseases. Ferulic acid, widespread in plant-based food, is a radical scavenger with multiple bioactivities. However, th... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 19, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Tiantian Xu, Qing Song, Li Zhou, Wenwen Yang, Xiangyao Wu, Qianyu Qian, Hui Chai, Qiang Han, Hongzhi Pan, Xiaobing Dou and Songtao Li Tags: Research Source Type: research

A combination of herbal compound (SPTC) along with exercise or metformin more efficiently alleviated diabetic complications through down-regulation of stress oxidative pathway upon activating Nrf2-Keap1 axis in AGE rich diet-induced type 2 diabetic mice
SPTC is a mix of four herbal components (Salvia officinalis, Panax ginseng, Trigonella foenum-graeceum, and Cinnamomum zeylanicum) which might be prevented the development of AGE rich diet-induced diabetic compli... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 19, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Golbarg Rahimi, Salime Heydari, Bahareh Rahimi, Navid Abedpoor, Iman Niktab, Zahra Safaeinejad, Maryam Peymani, Farzad Seyed Forootan, Zahra Derakhshan, Mohammad Hossein Nasr Esfahani and Kamran Ghaedi Tags: Research Source Type: research

Effect of individual- versus collective-based nutritional-lifestyle intervention on the atherogenic index of plasma in children with obesity: a randomized trial
The Atherogenic Index of Plasma is a predictive biomarker of atherosclerosis in adults but there is a lack of studies in paediatric population aimed at evaluating the longitudinal changes of the AIP and of the... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 13, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Elvira Verduci, Giuseppe Banderali, Elisabetta Di Profio, Sara Vizzuso, Gianvincenzo Zuccotti and Giovanni Radaelli Tags: Research Source Type: research

Long-chain saturated fatty acid species are not toxic to human pancreatic β-cells and may offer protection against pro-inflammatory cytokine induced β-cell death
Obesity is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D) although the causal links remain unclear. A feature shared by both conditions however is systemic inflammation and raised levels of circulating fatty ac... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 12, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Patricia Thomas, Kaiyven A. Leslie, Hannah J. Welters and Noel G. Morgan Tags: Brief communication Source Type: research

TCF7L2 polymorphisms, nut consumption, and the risk of metabolic syndrome: a prospective population based study
The aim of this study was to investigate whether two variants of the TCF7L2 (rs7903146 and rs12255372) modify the association between nut consumption and the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS). Additionally, th... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 12, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Somayeh Hosseinpour-Niazi, Bahar Bakhshi, Asiyeh-Sadat Zahedi, Mahdi Akbarzadeh, Maryam S. Daneshpour, Parvin Mirmiran and Fereidoun Azizi Tags: Research Source Type: research

Milk consumption and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in humans
In order to recapitulate the best available evidence of milk consumption and multiple health-related outcomes, we performed an umbrella review of meta-analyses and systematic reviews in humans. Totally, 41 met... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 7, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Xingxia Zhang, Xinrong Chen, Yujie Xu, Jie Yang, Liang Du, Ka Li and Yong Zhou Tags: Review Source Type: research

Association between breakfast skipping and metabolic outcomes by sex, age, and work status stratification
The association between breakfast skipping and abnormal metabolic outcomes remains controversial. A comprehensive study with various stratified data is required. (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 7, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Jun Heo, Won-Jun Choi, Seunghon Ham, Seong-Kyu Kang and Wanhyung Lee Tags: Research Source Type: research

Hawthorn fruit extract reduced trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO)-exacerbated atherogenesis in mice via anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation
Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis. Consumption of hawthorn fruit is believed to be cardio-protective, yet whether it is able to suppress the TMAO-induced atherosclero... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 7, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Zouyan He, Erika Kwek, Wangjun Hao, Hanyue Zhu, Jianhui Liu, Ka Ying Ma and Zhen-Yu Chen Tags: Research Source Type: research

The effect of high-fat diet and exercise on KISS-1/GPR54 expression in testis of growing rats
To find the expression of KISS-1 and G protein-coupled receptor 54 in rats testis from PND 21st to 56th. (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 6, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Junpeng Feng, Rui Xu, Yafei Li, Qishu Zhou, Ge Song, Yimin Deng and Yi Yan Tags: Research Source Type: research

The comparison of water intake patterns and hydration biomarkers among young adults with different hydration statuses in Hebei, China
The objectives of the ... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 6, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Jianfen Zhang, Na Zhang, Shufang Liu, Songming Du, Hairong He and Guansheng Ma Tags: Research Source Type: research

Novel and traditional anthropometric indices for identifying metabolic syndrome in non-overweight/obese adults
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) in non-overweight/obese people is insidiously associated with cardiovascular disease. Novel anthropometric indices can reflect central obesity better than the traditional anthropometr... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 6, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Lihong Wu, Wenhua Zhu, Qiaohua Qiao, Lijuan Huang, Yiqi Li and Liying Chen Tags: Research Source Type: research

Combined Lycium babarum polysaccharides and C-phycocyanin increase gastric Bifidobacterium relative abundance and protect against gastric ulcer caused by aspirin in rats
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin are used for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Chronic use of low-dose aspirin is associated with the occurrence of gastric ulcer. The aim of this s... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 6, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Shu-Yu Hsieh, Yu Zhi Lian, I-Hsuan Lin, Yu-Chen Yang, Alexey A. Tinkov, Anatoly V. Skalny and Jane C.-J. Chao Tags: Research Source Type: research

Sialylated human milk oligosaccharides prevent intestinal inflammation by inhibiting toll like receptor 4/NLRP3 inflammasome pathway in necrotizing enterocolitis rats
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains a fatal gastrointestinal disorder in neonates and has very limited therapeutic options. Sialylated human milk oligosaccharides (SHMOs) improve pathological changes in ex... (Source: Nutrition and Metabolism)
Source: Nutrition and Metabolism - January 6, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Wenting Zhang, Jingqiu He-Yang, Wenjuan Tu and Xiaoying Zhou Tags: Research Source Type: research