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Membrane processing effect of blackberry (Rubus adenotrichos) on cytotoxic and pro-apoptotic activities against cancer cell lines
(2021-04-23)Berries are considered an important source of bioactive compounds. In the tropics, Rubus adenotrichos is commonly cultivated, and it is consumed mostly in processed forms. This study assessed the effect of industrial ... -
Metabolic and Performance Responses to Carbohydrate Intake During Exercise
(2000-09)During exercise, an adequate supply of substrates is required for the continuing resynthesis of ATP in working muscles. Muscle fibers have limited stores of creatine phosphate, glycogen, and triglycerides and so must also ... -
Methodological desing for the assessment of physical activity and sedentary time in eight Latin American countries
(2020)Worldwide studies of physical activity and sedentary time have historically under-represented low- and middle-income countries due to the lack of surveillance data. The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods and ... -
Mezclas vegetales nutritivas y simples para el niño costarricense
(Revista Medica Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, Costa Rica 15(1): 71-90, 1980)Con el fin de contribuir a mejorar la alimentación del niño costarricense, se elaboraron mezclas vegetales teóricas de alto valor nutritivo. Esas mezclas consisten en la combinación de una leguminosa con un cereal o ... -
Micronutrientes y enfermedades crónicas: ¿hacia donde apunta la evidencia científica?
(2009-07)Los estudios observacionales han demostrado, de manera consistente, una asociación positiva entre el consumo de dietas ricas en frutas y vegetales, y un menor riesgo de enfermedad cardiovascular, cáncer, enfermedad ... -
Modelo preclínico de obesidad basado en alimentos altamente procesados y de alta palatabilidad
(2022-01)Introducción: el alarmante incremento de la obesidad en todo el mundo y en Costa Rica responde principalmente a modificaciones en la composición de la dieta habitual de las personas. La presente investigación tuvo como ... -
Motorcycle Enduro Race in Heat: Fluid Balance and Thermoregulation
(2007-05)PURPOSE: To evaluate the hydration status, fluid balance and core temperature changes during an enduro motorcycle race. METHODS: 12 professional male enduro drivers gave written informed consent to participate. Data were ... -
Mucosal infection and malnutrition
(Neonatal infection. Grune y Stratton p. 299- 213, 1984)The mucosal infections that result in acute diarrheal diseases (ADD) and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for more than one half of all the morbidity of infants and young children throughout the less ... -
New developments in sports nutrition: introduction and historical overview
(2003)The science of sports nutrition is quickly growing to maturity. The last two decades have seen the publication of the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and many sound textbooks such as those edited by Ron Maughan ... -
El niño agredido y la desnutrición: observaciones epidemiológicas en Costa Rica
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera: 15(1), 137-148. 1980, 1980)The present paper analyzes hospital records of 33 cases of battered child syndrome in connection with variables of the mother and in relation to the nutrítional state of the children involved. Associations indicate that ... -
No effect of carbohydrate feeding on 16 km cycling time trial performance
(2008-11-24)The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of CHO ingestion during high intensity exercise performance lasting approximately 25 min. Twelve endurance trained male cyclists (age 19–41 years; body mass 73.2 ± ... -
La nutrición en Costa Rica
(1991)El nuevo Hospital Nacional de Niños se había inaugurado cinco años atrás; sus flamantes instalaciones contrastaban con la incómoda construcción de madera del Hospital San Juan de Dios, nuestro Hospital General. No obstante ... -
Nutrition and health in societies in transition
(In: Nutrition in Transition: Proceedings of the Western Hemisphere Nutrition Congress V, Quebec 1977, edited by Philip L. White and Nancy Selvey. (Chicago) American Medical Association, 1978, pp. 351-358, 1978-02-01)One often hears the expression that a country or society is "in transition," but there is not a clear definition of such, nor is there an effort to quantitate or characterize the level of transition undergone by a given ... -
Nutrition and infection
(Tropical and Geographical Medicine. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 206-211, 1984)The association of malnutrition and infectious disease (faminepestilence) had been recognized since the beginning of human history, but it was not until the late 1950s that such an interaction was scientifically documented ... -
Nutritional status of the elderly in Palmares, Costa Rica
(Arch Latinoam nutr 33 (2) 409-422, 1983-04-01)The nutritional status of aged persons living in a small Costa Rican community was evaluated using anthropometric measurements, clinical findings and dietary surveys. Eighteen per cent of the aged were overweight, a condition ... -
Oral rehydration and maintenance of children with rotavirus and bacterial diarrhoeas
(Bull World Health Organ. 1979; 57(3): 453–459, 1979)To determine whether oral glucose-electrolytes therapy could be adapted with equal success to infants with diarrhoea of bacterial and viral etiologies, oral glucose-electrolytes therapy was studied in a setting where all ... -
Oral rehydration of neonates with dehydrating diarrhoeas
(The Lancet Vol 314(8154): 1209-1210. Dec 08, 1979., 1979-12-08)Thirty-nine of forty neonates with mean dehydration equivalent to 6.7% of bodyweight were orally rehydrated with a glucose/electrolyte solution. Only one patient required any intravenous fluids for rehydration. ... -
Original research Socio-demographic patterns of self-reported physical activity and sitting time in Latin American countries: findings from ELANS
(2019-12-23)Background: Low levels of physical activity (PA) and prolonged sitting time (ST) increase the risk of non-communicable diseases and mortality, and can be influenced by socio-demographic characteristics. The aim of this ... -
Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Active Transportation in Adults from Eight Latin American Countries
(2022-10-06)Neighborhood built environment is associated with domain-specific physical activity. However, few studies with representative samples have examined the association between perceived neighborhood safety indicators and ... -
Perceived Urban Environment Attributes and Device-Measured Physical Activity in Latin American: An 8-Nation Study
(2021)Introduction Attributes of the neighborhood-built environment are associated with self-reported physical activity, but only a few studies have concentrated on device-measured physical activity in Latin America. This study ...