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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a worldwide health problem and imposes a high cost on healthcare system, and NASH is associated with an unhealthy lifestyle. This study investigated whether low carbohydrate diet intervention physical activity and affect intrahepatic fat content and hepatic enzymes. The current interventional study included participants who were over 18 years with NASH (n= 30) with BMI over 25 kg/m2. The effects of proper nutritional therapy (moderate caloric restriction, low carbohydrate) was tested through personal dietary and physical assessment, parameters of the metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in addition to liver biochemical and imaging study . The assessment was done at baseline and at 3 months by the same observer.

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ABSTRACTBackground. Plant-based diets may reduce the risk of chronic diseases, but can also lead to low calcium and vitamin D intakes, posing a risk for bone h

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is clinically characterized as memory deficits, altered behavior and impaired cognitive functions. The most important risk factor for AD is aging and mounting. Evidences suggested in different studies that traditionally used plants in Asia, China, and Europe significantly affect aging and AD involved neurodegeneration pathways. Research into ethnobotanicals for impaired memory and cognition has been burgeoned in last decades. The inclusion and exclusion criteria for the plant selection were based on reputed herbs recommended for treatment of neurological disorders and their scientific validation to cure neurodegenerative disorders. A range of traditional plants imparts effects via acetylcholinesterase activity, β-amyloid peptide formation in plaques, neurotrophic factors and through antioxidant activity. On one side preclinical investigations identified promising drug candidates for AD, on the other side, clinical evidences are still pending. Presently, according to WHO, around more than 80% world population relay on natural remedies to cure their health related issues. Plants contain rich source of primary and secondary metabolites for improving health problems. Pharmaceutical industry is facing intriguing challenges like elevated cost and unendurable risk management due to the high burden of neurodegenerative disorders. A significant shift of drug discovery is being witnessed from synthetic moieties to herbal formulation.

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AbstractAims. The microbiome-derived metabolite trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) has attracted major interest and controversy both as a diagnostic biomarker and t

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Small Pacific reef islands (including atolls and sandy cays) are often precarious landscapes for human habitation on the margins of sustainability. Formed mostly within the past 4000 years, reef islands are amongst the newest and most recently colonised landscapes in human history. Innovative strategies developed by saltwater peoples to successfully colonise and sustainably occupy these dynamic environments illustrate human ingenuity with implications for modern reef island communities facing the predicted impacts of global warming. As a prelude to future archaeological research, this paper presents a detailed synthesis of early ethnohistorical and ethnographic information on settlement patterns, secular and ceremonial site types, and social interactions of the Kulkalgal people who continue to inhabit the small, drought-prone reef islands of central Torres Strait, northeast Australia. These skilled navigators voyaged in large double outrigger sailing canoes across 700 km of seascape and possessed the most geographically-dispersed settlement pattern known for any Australian Indigenous coastal group. The Kulkalgal developed dense networks of social interactions and exchange relationships with their neighbours, especially the Eastern Islanders of Torres Strait and New Guinea peoples to the north. In addition to expressing historically-contingent socio-political relationships, it is argued that these networks formed part of a range of socio-economic risk-buffering strategies to offset the dry season impoverished terrestrial resource base (plant foods and drinking water) of reef islands. Kulkalgal settlement patterns were complex and flexible and designed in part to take advantage of super-abundances of marine foods and to accommodate the seasonal vagaries of terrestrial resource availability. They ranged from population dispersal during the long dry season to congregation during the wet season when crop planting and communal ceremonies were scheduled. Investigating the long-term emergence and development of these socio-economic arrangements presents opportunities for mutually-informative comparisons with the more established archaeology of Pacific atoll societies.

People with prediabetes were significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other major cardiovascular event when compared with those who had normal blood sugar levels, according to new research. Researchers said the findings should serve as a wake-up call for clinicians and patients alike to try to prevent prediabetes in the first place.

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A global study of the diets and health outcomes of 134,000 people from 21 countries found a link between eating processed meat and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

Loss of the ability to experience pleasure - or anhedonia - has been revealed as a key feature in frontotemporal dementia, in contrast to Alzheimer's disease. The findings from brain scans, believed to be a first, show grey matter deterioration in the so-called pleasure system of the brain - these regions were distinct from those implicated in depression or apathy, suggesting a possible treatment target for the early-onset dementia that affects people from 40-65 years.