Sentences with phrase «fed the control group»

For the current study, the researchers fed eight pigs a high - calorie diet, which has 23 percent fat, and fed the control group of eight pigs a standard diet with 5 percent fat during a 13 - week period.

Not exact matches

The control group rats were fed with; a normal diet; group 2 rats were fed a 10 % VCO supplemented diet; group 3 administered 10 ml HPO / kg b.w. orally; group 4 were fed 10 % VCO + 10 ml HPO / kg for 28 days.

The LDL levels of rats fed refined coconut oil did not increase over thirty days but stayed about the same, while the LDL levels of the control group, which received NO coconut oil at all, increased.

The rats were randomly assigned into the control group with normal feed and saline only, and three groups with virgin coconut oil (VCO) of varying amounts added to normal feed.

For example, a correlational study of two American subgroups — one from La Leche League and one control group — found that frequent feedings reduced crying in babies who were two months old but did not make a difference for four - month - old babies.

The groups, which include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Academy of Pediatrics and World Health Organization, say formula samples discourage women from breast - feeding.

When a study is done showing that breastfeeding lowers the risk of a certain disease, breastfeeding is the experimental group and artificial feeding is the control group.

Thus, I strongly support the critical statement «human milk is the recommended source of nutrition for infants» in the FDA's proposed guidance, and urge a guidance revision that any breast milk comparison claims (e.g., «closer than ever to breast milk») made by formula companies must also be substantiated by studies that use a control group of exclusively breast - fed infants.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

Carrying out randomised controlled trials which are clearly recognised as the «gold standard» is not always possible as it is not ethical to randomly allocate mothers in a way which arbitrarily may decide that half of the group will bottle feed.

Patty Rundall, of the British Baby Milk Action, a group that advocates for breastfeeding, and who also represents the Baby Feeding Law Group, which advocates for laws controlling marketing of infant formulas, sends this most interesting article from The Independent about the latest efforts by Nestlé (really, no relation) to prevent the UK Health Department from enforcing marketing restrictions on infant formgroup that advocates for breastfeeding, and who also represents the Baby Feeding Law Group, which advocates for laws controlling marketing of infant formulas, sends this most interesting article from The Independent about the latest efforts by Nestlé (really, no relation) to prevent the UK Health Department from enforcing marketing restrictions on infant formGroup, which advocates for laws controlling marketing of infant formulas, sends this most interesting article from The Independent about the latest efforts by Nestlé (really, no relation) to prevent the UK Health Department from enforcing marketing restrictions on infant formulas.

On the other hand, fine motor development is mainly about the baby gaining ability to control small muscle groups for fine - tuned movements such as feeding, drawing and manipulating small objects.

Given the desirability of breastfeeding, it is possible that women in the intervention group felt more guilty about discontinuing breastfeeding than control women because of relationships developed with the peer counselor, and thus, they did not answer telephone calls when the research assistant called to ascertain feeding status.

The intervention tested by Bonuck et al. (31) yielded impressive results with significantly higher rates of any breastfeeding through 20 wk PP, with the exception of week 18 (53 vs. 39 %, P < 0.05) and greater breastfeeding intensity (defined as more than half of feedings derived from breast milk in this study) through 9 wk (46 vs. 33 %, P < 0.05) in the intervention (vs. control) group.

Women randomised to antenatal education were more likely to exclusively breast feed compared with the control group only from six weeks postnatally, when 29 % (39/133) of women in the antenatal education group were exclusively breastfeeding compared with 17 % (23/136) of women receiving routine care (1.73, 1.04 to 2.90; number needed to treat = 8, 5 to 41).

Statistics from the Infant Feeding 2000 survey, however, suggest that rates of breast feeding in the UK20 are similar to those of Singapore.7 Our results were also consistent with the results of PROBIT study in Belarus, in which 36 % of women in the control group were breast feeding at all at six months.21 Around 90 % of the women in our study had monthly household incomes of less than Singapore $ 5000 (# 1630, $ 2413, $Feeding 2000 survey, however, suggest that rates of breast feeding in the UK20 are similar to those of Singapore.7 Our results were also consistent with the results of PROBIT study in Belarus, in which 36 % of women in the control group were breast feeding at all at six months.21 Around 90 % of the women in our study had monthly household incomes of less than Singapore $ 5000 (# 1630, $ 2413, $feeding in the UK20 are similar to those of Singapore.7 Our results were also consistent with the results of PROBIT study in Belarus, in which 36 % of women in the control group were breast feeding at all at six months.21 Around 90 % of the women in our study had monthly household incomes of less than Singapore $ 5000 (# 1630, $ 2413, $feeding at all at six months.21 Around 90 % of the women in our study had monthly household incomes of less than Singapore $ 5000 (# 1630, $ 2413, $ 3294).

Women who received postnatal lactation support were also more likely to exclusively breast feed at two weeks (1.74, 1.09 to 2.77) and six weeks (1.76, 1.06 to 2.94) compared with the control group.

The incidence of any breast feeding was higher in women who received postnatal lactation support than in women in the control group (1.19, 1.05 to 1.36; number needed to treat = 8, 5 to 26) at six weeks after delivery (table 4).

The last group was still breast fed at the six month control.

A case - controlled study in the US examined the role of breastfeeding by dividing groups into > 6 months breastfeeding, 6 months breastfeeding, and artificial feeding.

Parent Infant Feeding Initiative: a randomised controlled trial involving fathers and mothers to enhance breastfeeding duration with two medium level intervention groups, one high level intervention group and a control group receiving usual care

The frequency of positive values for antibodies specific to egg yolk and egg white did not differ significantly between the combined egg treatment group and the control group within both cohorts or between the breast - fed and formula - fed cohorts (Table 7).

Hemoglobin, ferritin, and transferrin values did not differ significantly between the combined egg treatment groups and the control group within both the breast - fed and formula - fed cohorts (Table 6).

It is also interesting to note that erythrocyte DHA concentrations decreased with age in the breast - fed infants in the control group, whereas there was no significant change in DHA status with time in the formula - fed infants in the control group.

Intervention: a community - based worker carrying out 2 activities: 1) 1 home visit to all pregnant women in the third trimester, followed by subsequent monthly home visits to all infants aged 0 — 24 months to support appropriate feeding, infection control, and care - giving; 2) a monthly women's group meeting using participatory learning and action to catalyse individual and community action for maternal and child health and nutrition.

The animal on the right, which weighs around 70 g, has been fed 30 % fewer calories (CR) compared to the control group since early adult life.

The first group was fed a control diet during pregnancy and lactation.

The control group in the study was mice before they were fed DSS.

To make this discovery, Krementsov and colleagues fed a high salt diet or a control diet to three genetically different groups of mice.

For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

Further, the WNPRC control group probably ate more overall, because their meals were unlimited, whereas NIA monkeys were fed fixed amounts.

However, by the time the turkeys were processed at the Penn State Poultry Education and Research Center in December, the birds that consumed natural feedstuffs weighed essentially the same as turkeys in the control group that ate only commercial poultry feed.

After 5 weeks, mice fed the control diet showed either complete recovery or mild paralysis, but all three groups fed resveratrol exhibited severe and lasting EAE without remission.

«Rats on the high - fat diet looked exactly the same as the control group rats in terms of the weight, but their feeding reflexes were already beginning to be compromised.»

A control group of mice were fed a standard diet for mice.

The researchers plan to carry out phase III randomized controlled clinical trials to determine the actual rate of effectiveness by comparing those treated with the ketogenic diet to a group tube - fed a normal, nonketogenic diet.

Fetuses from zinc - deficient mice in the study were 38 percent smaller on average than those from the control group fed a diet with zinc included.

(One control group received regular rat chow and water, and the other received a nonalcoholic liquid diet equal in calories to the alcohol feedings.)

University of Kansas scientists have found that infants who were fed formula enriched with long - chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) from birth to 12 months scored significantly better than a control group on several measures of intelligence conducted between the ages of three to six years.

The fourth group was fed a control diet for three months and then these normal weight sheep were placed on a diet for one month before conception, until one week after conception.

And the pairs were far less synchronized when they did feed chicks, compared to a control group.

Mice fed high folic acid in the treatment group had higher concentrations of unmetabolized folic acid in blood plasma and higher folate concentrations in the spleen when compared to mice in the control group.

Over an eight - week period, a control group of mice fed a high - fat diet predictably became obese, but the mice whose Hedgehog pathway had been activated didn't gain any more weight than another control group fed on a normal diet.

Further, plasma triglycerides and insulin levels were significantly lower in hyperleptinemic versus pair - fed controls, while fatty acid and glucose levels were similar in the two groups, suggestive of enhanced insulin sensitivity in the hyperleptinemic animals.

A control group was not fed any broccoli.

In 2008, a study published in Evidence - Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine found that diabetic rats that were fed red cabbage extracts for 60 days exhibited reduced blood glucose levels, restored renal function and improved weight loss when compared to the control group.

A control group was given standard feed with a glycaemic index of 70.

This suggests that, unlike mice in the CER group, elevated fatty acid oxidation and improvements in glucose control of the IER - fed mice occurred in the absence of an overall energy deficit.

In the second test, with 24 hour deprivation and cookie feeding, rats that had been in sweet restricted cycles ate almost 20 % more food than the control group.

Interestingly enough, the rats that had been conditioned on sweet food were not all that interested in the chow feeding, and actually ate 20 % less chow than the control group.