The most efficient ways to inhibit the growth of microorganisms are the use of well-designed biocides by a rational running of the process providing good production of hygiene.

This study presents the results of a first study on perceptions and responses of adolescent females to eating behaviors and body image. Mind-Genomics was used to create an experimental design with systematically varied messages about perceptions of eating behaviors and body image. A small representative sample of 102 adolescent females evaluated these messages testing perceptions dictated by an experimental design. Findings show that among the homogeneous experiment group, there were three distinct perception segments with respect to eating behaviors and body image. The three radically different mindset segments were: The known need of control (33%), self-condemnation and shame (46%) and feeling ugly, panicky, and a victim (24%). Findings are discussed suggesting the development of communication interventions to prevent body perception related eating problems in adolescent females.

Objective: Dietary fiber or Roughage is a plant material that cannot be digested but that helps you to digest other food. A high-fiber diet has many benefits, which include normalizing bowel movements, lowering cholesterol levels, controlling blood sugar levels. Oranges are one of the most popular fruits, but very few consume the peel, which is arguably the healthiest part of the whole fruit. Orange peels are rich in flavonoids, like hesperidin and polymethoxyflavones (PMFs), and other phytochemicals, which contribute to health benefits. Thus present work aimed at the development of fiber rich product.

Methods: The present study was designed to prepare a fiber rich snack product and standardize the developed product. Orange peel, sesame seeds, semolina and sugar were the main ingredients used for the preparation of products with three formulations, i.e., T1 (100:25:20:120), T2 (65:50:50:100), T3 (100:50:50:65).

Results: Acceptability of the product was determined by sensory evaluation. As the mean is high and standard deviation is low for the products prepared, all the three products are statistically significant. But as the sample T1 scored high mean ± standard deviation comparing with T2 and T3 it is considered the best product among the three. Coefficient of variance of the product is also low which emphasizes the product is statistically significant. Physico-chemical composition of raw materials and experimental product were also determined. The sample T1 was subjected to nutritional composition which showed a protein (11.0%), carbohydrate (49.03%), fat (4.5%) and crude fiber (14.37%).

Conclusion: Orange peel is a very good source of dietary fiber. Thus this laddu prepared from fiber rich orange peel could be a beneficial and healthy fiber snack for kids and adults.

The probiotic strain Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS), has been consumed in the form of beverages in many countries. This paper studies the gut microbiota regulation effect of the beverage, instead of the strain itself. The evaluation is conducted using beverage with 108 cfu mL-1 LcS and 0.2 g mL-1 sugar on high-fat-diet hamster model. High-through put sequencing of gut microbiota showed that some of the non-dominant populations were regulated positively by LcS beverage gavage, against the changes induced by high-fat diet, such as Erysipelotrichales, Lactobacillales and Burkholderiales at Class level, Erysipelotrichaceae, Lactobacillaceae and Rikenellaceae at Family level, Coprococcus, Allobaculum, Lactobacillus and Akkermansia at Genus level, and Akkermansia muciniphila and Lactobacillus reuteri at species level. There was no significant difference in core microbiome, dominant populations or α-diversity between control and treated groups, In conclusion, the LcS beverage can regulate gut microbiota composition in high-fat diet hamster model by changing non-dominant populations.

Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of cognitive decline in the elderly. It is caused by oxidative stress of biomolecules that appears to be related to the increased occurrence of lesions in brain regions responsible for cognition and may lead to enzymatic inactivation, mutation, rupture, increase in the atherogenicity of low-density plasma lipoproteins, and cell death. It is believed that a diet rich in antioxidant nutrients can help reduce the cell damage caused by free radicals and minimize the deleterious effects of oxidative stress.

Objective: To identify patterns of antioxidant nutrient intake in the diet of elderly people with and without Alzheimer’s disease.

Methods: A case-control study was conducted on elderly patients managed at a public hospital in Maceió. Socio-demographic and anthropometric variables as well as the 3-day food registry were collected.

Results: The study was composed of 92 elderly patients with and without Alzheimer’s disease. No differences were observed between groups in the frequencies of the variables: gender, marital status, schooling, and income. Elderly patients with Alzheimer’s disease had a higher average age. Regular physical activity was reported only in the control group. It was also observed that malnutrition was associated with the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, where the frequency of individuals with low body weight was higher in the affected group (n = 7; 20.6%) than in the control group (n = 4; 6.9%). A high frequency of subjects with intake below the recommendation was noted in both groups for all the antioxidant nutrients, except vitamin C. Intake of antioxidant nutrients showed correlations with energy and macronutrient intake in both groups.

Conclusion: The antioxidant nutrient intake in the majority of the studied elderly was below the nutritional recommendations for age, and the inadequacy of intake is even more frequent among elderly patients with Alzheimer’s disease.