Sentences with phrase «intake measure used»

Not exact matches

I use this mason jar all day every day because its huge and lets me measure out my water intake.

I never measured, and I used what I had, whether that was a dash of cream leftover from a dinner party's whipped cream dessert, or a pour of oozy blackstrap molasses which boosted my calcium and iron intake when I was pregnant.

He or she may be feeding frequently, but there is no way to measure his or her intake the way you can if using bottles.

Anthropometrics and formula intake were determined monthly; total body bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) were measured at baseline, 3, and 6 months of age using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry.

I sadly pumped instead of breastfeeding my baby, and the nurse came in again, instructing me to use the bottle so we could accurately measure his milk intake.

The most widely used measure of feed efficiency is the weight - based feed conversion ratio, calculated as the ratio of feed intake (by weight) to weight gain.

The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

Researchers based their conclusions about improved dietary intake on participants» scores on the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), a tool used to measure diet quality and adherence to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

For both studies, dietary fibre intake was measured using Food Frequency Questionnaire responses.

While cautioning that the quantity of evidence was less - than - optimal and that the studies were qualitatively limited by the methods used to measure sodium intake, the small number of patients with health outcomes of interest in some of the studies, and other methodological constraints, the committee concluded that:

Future studies should use outcome measures such as change in quantities of food consumed or energy intake to quantify the impact on dietary intake and the potential impact on nutrition - related health.

A similar study measured how much vitamin C subjects had in their bloodstreams, as vitamin C level was considered a good biomarker of plant food intake (and hence was used as a proxy for a healthy diet).

The diet is pretty much the same (using my fitness pal and fitbit hr to measure my activity levels / calories intake), but on some days I keep stalling my weight loss, and can't figure out what could be causing it.

At base line and every two months thereafter, her height was measured with the same stadiometer and her body composition was measured by dual - energy x-ray absorptiometry (QDR 1000W, Hologic, Waltham, Mass.) to determine the bone mineral mass and the amounts of fat and lean soft tissue.11 Spontaneous energy intake was measured with the use of a standardized test meal (containing 1670 kcal of energy) given at noon, after the patient had been fasting since breakfast.

Misreporting of energy intake in the elderly using doubly labeled water to measure total energy expenditure and weight change.

Design: Intakes of vitamin D and calcium from foods and supplements were measured every 4 y with the use of a food - frequency questionnaire.

I use a scanner to measure my intake and I have close to reach my zenith, meaning I have just about saturated my antioxidant receptors in my body.

In fact, when the Feskanich group analyzed the Nurses» Health Study using only the data from the first FFQ, the association between the fifth and first quintiles of retinol intake fell from a statistically significant (meaning consistent and unlikely to be due to chance) 89 percent increased risk to a non-statistically significant (meaning inconsistent, with a high probability of being due to chance) 17 percent increased risk.9 This suggests that one one - week FFQ does not measure retinol intake with sufficient accuracy to detect an association, and that, had the intake data more accurately estimated real intake of retinol, the Lim team might have found such an association.

The Spanish researchers followed 807 people over the age of 65 for 2 years and measured polyphenol intake in two different ways: in the classical way, using questionnaires, and in a more objective way, by measuring the quantity of polyphenol metabolites in the participants» urine.

Get a cheap kitchen scale and measure your portions of food, use a database of nutritional information (see my previous post for a software tool) and calculate your calorie intake.

You can use this visualization to check whether there is an apparent link between daily carb / protein intake and measured BHB levels.

To find out if you are deficient in magnesium, you can either measure levels of zinc in your red blood cells (erythrocytic magnesium) or if you are not willing or able to get a blood test you can measure your food intake over the course of three days (including one weekend day) or a whole week and try to calculate your dietary magnesium intake; for this purpose, you can again use Wolfram Alpha for free (albeit a bit tedious) calculations.

This database primarily measures Dietary Fiber intake because isolated Functional Fibers, such as pectins and gums, that are used as ingredients represent a very minor amount of the fiber present in foods.

We calculated geometric mean and 95 % confidence intervals for MRI - measured breast density at ages 25 — 29 years across quartiles of fat intake using linear mixed - effect regression.

Among 373,803 participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort, there was no association between baseline fruit and vegetable intake and weight change over 5 y [23], but this study used a single baseline measure of diet that did not incorporate change over time.

In this long - term follow - up study, sugar intake from sweet food / beverages, which are consistently high in sugar content, has been used as the exposure measure.

The aim of this study is to investigate whether sugar intake from sweet food / beverages is positively associated with the risk of both incident and recurrent mood disorders, and to establish the role of the reverse effect in the Whitehall II cohort, using prospective, repeat measures data collected over a 22 year period.

Main Outcome Measure Relative risk of nonfatal MI associated with coffee intake, calculated using unconditional logistic regression.

Although the only previous longitudinal epidemiologic study to use global measures of carbohydrate consumption found no relation between dietary GI and depression, this was a study of intake during pregnancy and the prediction of postpartum depression 2 — 9 mo after giving birth (15).

Using data from an observational study, we used sinusoidal regression models to evaluate seasonal variation of nutrient intake, PA, and body weight as amplitude and phase (a time while the measure was at peak).

In most intake setups with both MAF and MAP the MAF is responsible for measuring air flow; MAP is used for other secondary functions under normal operation.

A revised intake and exhaust and some additional isolation and insulation measures have helped quell the harshness of the V - 6 that we've long complained about, and the car is about 50 pounds lighter than a comparable G37 thanks to the use of lightweight steel in the body structure.

Measured rotating weights bolted to engines counter offending harmonics, largely replaced by clever active engine mountings / bushings Balanced crank: Usually done for race prepped engines to reduce the strain on the rotating components and their bearings when spinning at up to 19,000 rpm where a couple of grams turn into kilogrammes at such high rpms Balancer tube: A connection between intake manifoilds of the two banks of a V - type engine to even out pressure of cancel harmonics Bi-Turbo: Term coined to describe an endine with two turbochargers Brake Force Distribution: also called electronic brake force distribution where the ABS first attempts to divert pressure to the wheels that are not locked - up before intervening with its pulsating anti-lock strategy Brake Disc: Or Disc Brake, an aeronautic technology adapted for automotive use to replace the drum brake.

Some suggest using a special chemical sold in spray cans to clean the valves without taking the intake out, but it looks like it only works if there is a minimal carbon buildup or as a preventative measure.

Measuring the total pressure drop (ie total restriction) is as simple as using small - bore hose to connect the vacuum port of the Magnehelic gauge to the intake system.

Which is measured by anomalies from previous measurements using the same instruments, or (as in ship intakes and buoys) as anomalies from cross-calibrated instruments.

(Before 1940, temperatures were generally measured with buckets that have a cool bias, after 1940 engine cooling intakes were increasingly used, which have a warm bias.)

It is striking how rigorous the physics and math looks when calculating heat loss of a bucket, and yet how casually assumptions are made about the way things were measured by sailors, and how the actually use of bucket (s) vs intake are basically guesses.

In the wartime years leading up to 1945, most sea temperatures measurements were taken by US ships, who measured the temperature of the intake water used for cooling the ship's engines.

But whereas US crews had measured the temperature of the intake water used for cooling the ships» engines, British crews collected water in buckets from the sea for their measurements.

By using client intake software, you will have a systematic process for capturing all of these data points, and you can even generate reports to measure how they are changing with time.

Change in tobacco use from intake to 36 weeks was measured by change in creatinine - adjusted cotinine among those designated as smokers at intake.

Physical activity was measured using TriTrack accelerometers worn over the same three - day period as the subjects that recorded food intake.

Girls» EAH calorie intakes at 5 and 7 y were measured by using the EAH protocol — a procedure developed in our laboratory to measure girls» responsiveness to the presence of palatable foods while in the absence of hunger (2).