Volume 90: Issue 2

Contents

245

Dietary guidelines for sugar: the need for evidence

C. H. S. Ruxton

249

Horizons in Nutritional Sciences An adaptive metabolic demand model for protein and amino acid requirements

D. J. Millward

261

Effects of dietary macronutrient content on energy metabolism and uncoupling protein mRNA expression in broiler chickens

Anne Collin, Ramon D. Malheiros, Vera M. B. Moraes, Pieter Van As, Veerle M. Darras, Mohammed Taouis, Eddy Decuypere, Johan Buyse

271

Whole-body fluxes and partitioning of amino acids to the mammary gland of cows fed fresh pasture at two levels of intake during early lactation

D. Pacheco, M. H. Tavendale, G. W. Reynolds, T. N. Barry, J. Lee, W. C. McNabb

283

Variable maternal nutrition and growth hormone treatment in the second quarter of pregnancy in pigs alter semitendinosus muscle in adolescent progeny

Kathryn L. Gatford, Jason E. Ekert, Karina Blackmore, Miles J. De Blasio, Jodie M. Boyce, Julie A. Owens, Roger G. Campbell, Phillip C. Owens

295

Influence of grapefruit-, orange- and apple-juice consumption on urinary variables and risk of crystallization

Ruth Hönow, Norbert Laube, Anke Schneider, Torsten Keßler, Albrecht Hesse

301

Carbohydrates digestibility and faecal nitrogen excretion in rats fed raw or germinated faba bean (Vicia faba)- and chickpea (Cicer arietinum)-based diets

Luis A. Rubio

311

Effect of altered dietary n-3 fatty acid intake upon plasma lipid fatty acid composition, conversion of [13C]α-linolenic acid to longer-chain fatty acids and partitioning towards β-oxidation in older men

Graham C. Burdge, Yvonne E. Finnegan, Anne M. Minihane, Christine M. Williams, Stephen A. Wootton

323

Ontogeny and nutritional manipulation of mitochondrial protein abundance in adipose tissue and the lungs of postnatal sheep

A. Mostyn, V. Wilson, J. Dandrea, D. P. Yakubu, H. Budge, M. C. Alves-Guerra, C. Pecqueur, B. Miroux, M. E. Symonds, T. Stephenson

329

Effects of dietary fat quantity and composition on fasting and postprandial levels of coagulation factor VII and serum choline-containing phospholipids

Anja Schou Lindman, Hanne Müller, Ingebjørg Seljeflot, Hans Prydz, Marit Veierød, Jan I. Pedersen

337

The effect of retinyl palmitate added to iron-fortified maize porridge on erythrocyte incorporation of iron in African children with vitamin A deficiency

Lena Davidsson, Pierre Adou, Christophe Zeder, Thomas Walczyk, Richard Hurrell

345

Effect of reduced maternal protein intake in pregnancy in the rat on the fatty acid composition of brain, liver, plasma, heart and lung phospholipids of the offspring after weaning

Graham C. Burdge, Emmanuelle Delange, Ludivine Dubois, Rebecca L. Dunn, Mark A. Hanson, Alan A. Jackson, Philip C. Calder

353

Use of biomarkers of sub-clinical infection, nutrition and neonatal maturity to interpret plasma retinol in Nigerian neonates

Delana A. Adelekan, Christine A. Northrop-Clewes, Joshua A. Owa, Adesola O. Oyedeji, Adedayo A. Owoeye, David I. Thurnham

363

Single oral doses of 13C forms of pteroylmonoglutamic acid and 5-formyltetrahydrofolic acid elicit differences in short-term kinetics of labelled and unlabelled folates in plasma: potential problems in interpretation of folate bioavailability studies

A. J. A. Wright, P. M. Finglas, J. R. Dainty, D. J. Hart, C. A. Wolfe, S. Southon, J. F. Gregory

373

The rat as a model for pigs: comparative values for the digestibility of NSP and other macronutrients

Elisabeth Wisker, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen

385

Dietary docosahexaenoic acid-induced production of tissue lipid peroxides is not suppressed by higher intake of ascorbic acid in genetically scorbutic Osteogenic Disorder Shionogi/Shi-od/od rats

Seiji Sekine, Kazuhiro Kubo, Tadahiro Tadokoro, Akio Maekawa, Morio Saito

395

Influence of plant and bacterial myrosinase activity on the metabolic fate of glucosinolates in gnotobiotic rats

Gabrielle Rouzaud, Sylvie Rabot, Brian Ratcliffe, Alan J. Duncan

405

Inhibition of tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin 6 production by mononuclear cells following dietary fish-oil supplementation in healthy men and response to antioxidant co-supplementation

Timothy Trebble, Nigel K. Arden, Mike A. Stroud, Stephen A. Wootton, Graham C. Burdge, Elizabeth A. Miles, Anne B. Ballinger, Rachel L. Thompson, Philip C. Calder

413

Effect of isoenergetic low- and high-carbohydrate diets on substrate kinetics and oxidation in healthy men

Christina Koutsari, Labros S. Sidossis

419

Intra-individual variation of basal metabolic rate and the influence of daily habitual physical activity before testing

Mirjam P. E. Adriaens, Paul F. M. Schoffelen, Klaas R. Westerterp

425

Can prescription of sip-feed supplements increase energy intake in hospitalised older people with medical problems?

Margaret Roberts, Jan Potter, John McColl, John Reilly

431

Relationship between body mass index, serum cholesterol, leisure-time physical activity, and diet in a Mediterranean Southern-Europe population

Helmut Schröder, Jaume Marrugat, Roberto Elosua, Maribel I. Covas for the REGICOR Investigators

441

Associations between intake of added sugars and intakes of nutrients and food groups in the diets of German children and adolescents

Ute Alexy, Wolfgang Sichert-Hellert, Mathilde Kersting

449

Antioxidative probiotic fermented goats' milk decreases oxidative stress-mediated atherogenicity in human subjects

Tiiu Kullisaar, Epp Songisepp, Marika Mikelsaar, Kersti Zilmer, Tiiu Vihalemm, Mihkel Zilmer

457

A potential protective mechanism of soya isoflavones against 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene tumour initiation

Ho Yee Chan, Lai K. Leung

467

New aspects in pathogenesis of konzo: neural cell damage directly caused by linamarin contained in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

V. G. Sreeja, N. Nagahara, Q. Li, M. Minami

473

Folate bioavailability: UK Food Standards Agency workshop report

Peter Sanderson, Helene McNulty, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo, Ian F. W. McDowell, Alida Melse-Boonstra, Paul M. Finglas, Jess F. Gregory III

481

Letter to the Editor National Academies of Science definitions relating to food fibre only add confusion

Brendan Donnelly