International Journal of Food, Nutrition & Dietetics

This article is aimed to raise the question of usefulness of Chinese herbal medicine for treating people with cancer pain. Only three studies were found in PubMed, and Chinese herbal medicine had the potential to be an effective therapeutic adjunct to medical analgesic management, by reducing their adverse effects, and various methods of use provide advantageous options for management of cancer survivors in not only relieving pain but also in improving quality of life.

Keywords: Chinese herbal medicine; Herbal nutrition; Clinical nutrition; Cancer nutrition. 

Mushrooms are a high valued source of nutrition and mineral constituents which are of paramount importance in the present age. Mushroom powder was prepared by oven dried method. After that two products mathari and rava idli were prepared using mushroom powder. Bio-chemical analysis of rava idli and mathari revealed that 20% fortification of mushroom powder in these products retained high amount of protein and fibre and low amount of fat and carbohydrate than control sample. Idli and mathari are famous Indian dish and mushroom fortification improve there nutritive value as high in protein content, appreciable amount of fat, energy value and fibre content. So,both can be suggested for pre-schooler and school going children in their tiffin box and for fever, burn, trauma, diabetic and heart and post operative patients because of its high nutritive value.

Keywords: Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus sajor caju); Indian recipes; Fortification; Malnutrition; Nutritive value; Rava; Besan; Refined flour. 

Overweight and obesity in childhood presents many threats in terms of negative health consequences as well as psychosocial difficulties. Formative childhood years are crucial for the development of health behaviors and health outcomes that continue through adulthood. I am pleased to present you with the plan for solving the problem of childhood obesity. This entire study was conducted in Indore city and samples were also collected through random purposive sampling method from Indore itself. This research will help you to solve the main root behind the development of contributing factors of obesity. The research study done on “The Impact of Nutritional Education on Parental Weight, Activity & Cardiovascular Risk Factors While Treating Childhood Obesity” reveals that; On comparing the impact of nutritional education on nutritional status of both parents and children, while treating childhood obesity, it was found that nutritional education had a significant impact on improving the nutritional status of experimental groups parents (P<0.05) and children (P<0.05) in comparison to their control group counter parts (P>0.05). Similar results were obtained when impact of nutritional education on life style pattern and health status of both parents and children, while treating childhood obesity, it was found that nutritional education had a significant impact on improving the life style pattern of experimental groups parents (P<0.05) and children (P<0.05) in comparison to their control group counter parts (P>0.05). All the three null hypothesis were rejected in this study and the entire alternative hypothesis were accepted that “there is a significant impact of nutritional education on nutritional status, life style pattern and health status” of parents and children of experimental groups.

Keywords:Overweight;Psychosocial;Cardiovascular Risk Factors;Childhood Obesity. 

Menopause is a term used to describe the permanent cessation of the primary functions of the human ovaries the ripening and release of ova and the release of hormones that cause both the creation of the uterine lining.[1] Menopause typically (but not always) occurs in women in midlife, during their late 40s or early 50s and signals the end of the fertile phase of women’s life. The term post menopause is applied to women who have not experienced a menstrual bleed for a minimum of 12 months, assuming that they do still have a uterus, and are not pregnant or lactating.[2] This stage of life becomes very stressful. Stress influence health and disease and is the main reason for early ageing. Now a day’s stress has become an integral part of day to day life style. Keeping the importance of post menopause present study was aimed toassess Association of Physical Activity with stress of 200 Post Menopausal Women aged 40-70 years living in Indore district. Result of the study reveals that Probability value of Chi square was 9.43 at 2 df which is a highly significant (P < 0.009, two tailed). As none of the Post menopausal women found heavy worker. Hence, highly significant association was found between physical activity and stress of Post menopausal women. Also, association of Lipid profile with stress in post menopausal women clearly reflects that the probability value of Chi-Square is 13.79 at 4 degrees of freedom which is highly significant (p<0.008, two-tailed). Therefore the obtained result concludes that there is a significant association between Lipid profile and stress in studied subjects. 

Keywords: Post menopause; Lipid profile; Stress; Physical activity.