Annals ofNutrition

Volume: 6 - Number: 55 - October 15, 2006

Outstanding

Zinc absorption and kinetics during pregnancy and lactation in Brazilian women

Patterns of bioelectrical impedance vector distribution by body mass index and age: implications for body-composition analysis

Supplement Use Is Associated with Health Status and Health-Related Behaviors in the 1946 British Birth Cohort

Postprandial response to a physiologic caloric load in HIV-positive patients receiving protease inhibitor–based or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor–based antiretroviral therapy

Aids and Anothers Devastators Syndromes

The satiating power of protein—a key to obesity prevention?

Biochemical and Molecular Actions of Nutrients

Impairment of VLDL Secretion by Medium-Chain Fatty Acids in Chicken Primary Hepatocytes Is Affected by the Chain Length

Spray-Dried Porcine Plasma Reduces the Effects of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B on Glucose Transport in Rat Intestine

Soy Protein Isolate Increases Hepatic Thyroid Hormone Receptor Content and Inhibits Its Binding to Target Genes in Rats

Body Composition, Diet and Nutritional Status

Patterns of bioelectrical impedance vector distribution by body mass index and age: implications for body-composition analysis

Inflammation contributes to low plasma amino acid concentrations in patients with chronic kidney disease

Carbohydrate metabolism and diabetes

Postprandial response to a physiologic caloric load in HIV-positive patients receiving protease inhibitor–based or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor–based antiretroviral therapy

Carbohydrate metabolism and diabetes

The glycemic index of foods influences postprandial insulin-like growth factor–binding protein responses in lean young subjects

Cardiovascular disease risk

A proinflammatory state is associated with hyperhomocysteinemia in the elderly

Commentaries

The Nutritional Phenotype in the Age of Metabolomics

Editorial

Response of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition to the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy

The insulin-like growth factor axis: a potential link between glycemic index and cancer

Science-based micronutrient fortification: which nutrients, how much, and how to know?

Editorial Commentary

JN—Accepting the Best

Energy and Proteic Metabolism

Whole-body protein anabolic response is resistant to the action of insulin in obese women

Altered interorgan response to feeding in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The daily valine requirement of healthy adult Indians determined by the 24-h indicator amino acid balance approach

Gene-nutrient interactions

The Ala54Thr polymorphism of the fatty acid–binding protein 2 gene is associated with a change in insulin sensitivity after a change in the type of dietary fat

Maternal methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency and low dietary folate lead to adverse reproductive outcomes and congenital heart defects in mice

Growth, Development and Paediatric

Association of maternal smoking with overweight at age 3 y in American Indian children

Zinc supplementation and psychosocial stimulation: effects on the development of undernourished Jamaican children

Short-term effects of vitamin A and antimalarial treatment on erythropoiesis in severely anemic Zanzibari preschool children

Lactation and Pregnancy

Zinc absorption and kinetics during pregnancy and lactation in Brazilian women

Lipids

Lack of effect of dietary conjugated linoleic acids naturally incorporated into butter on the lipid profile and body composition of overweight and obese men

Increasing dietary palmitic acid decreases fat oxidation and daily energy expenditure

Long-chain n–3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in plasma in British meat-eating, vegetarian, and vegan men

Nutrients metabolism

Tissue Distribution of Quercetin in Rats and Pigs

Rye Bread Enhances the Production and Plasma Concentration of Butyrate but Not the Plasma Concentrations of Glucose and Insulin in Pigs

Nutritional Epidemiology

Supplement Use Is Associated with Health Status and Health-Related Behaviors in the 1946 British Birth Cohort

Some Dietary and Adipose Tissue Carotenoids Are Associated with the Risk of Nonfatal Acute Myocardial Infarction in Costa Rica

Multivitamin Supplementation of HIV-Positive Women during Pregnancy Reduces Hypertension

Major Dietary Patterns and Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma in a Prospective Cohort of Swedish Women

Nutritional Requirements

Magnesium Proteinate Is More Protective than Magnesium Oxide in Heat-Stressed Quail

Obesity and eating disorders

Resting metabolic rate is an important predictor of serum adiponectin concentrations: potential implications for obesity-related disorders

Eating behavior among women with anorexia nervosa

Energy intakes of children after preloads: adjustment, not compensation

Recent Advances in Nutritional Sciences

Nutritional and Functional Importance of Intestinal Sulfur Amino Acid Metabolism

Review

Interactive effects of iron and zinc on biochemical and functional outcomes in supplementation trials

Review Articles

Is docosahexaenoic acid, an n–3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid, required for development of normal brain function? An overview of evidence from cognitive and behavioral tests in humans and animals

Vitamine, Minerals and Phytochemicals

Plasma kinetics of lutein, zeaxanthin, and 3-dehydro-lutein after multiple oral doses of a lutein supplement

Long-term moderate zinc supplementation increases exchangeable zinc pool masses in late-middle-aged men: the Zenith Study

Long-term calcium supplementation does not affect the iron status of 12–14-y-old girls

Only a small proportion of anemia in northeast Thai schoolchildren is associated with iron deficiency

Increasing the iodine concentration in the Swiss iodized salt program markedly improved iodine status in pregnant women and children: a 5-y prospective national study