コウレイシャ イリョウ ニオケル エイヨウ カンリ

In elderly patients, a lot of nutritional problems exist such as dysphagia and anorexia.They cause malnutrition. It decreases their immune functions and shortens the life prognosis.It is necessary to construct the hospital food service system by which enables appropriatedietary management based on the nutritional assessment of the individual to cope withthis problem.On the other hand, the examinations of proper range of the energy and nutrient intakein elderly patients are requested. Especially, it is necessary to research the recommendeddietary allowance of protein including the tolerable upper intake level.In addition, it is hoped to improve amenity concerning meal, including the adjustment oftheir forms, to keep an enough food intake for the recovery from malnutrition. And eatingtraining and dietary counseling is necessary by nurse and dietitian, respectively

Effect of amino acid mixtures on nasal allergic responses induced by toluene diisocyanate in mice

We studied the effect of various amino acid mixtures on nasal allergy induced by the intranasal application of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) in mice. In Experiment 1 (Exp. 1), mice were fed a 25% casein, soy protein isolate (SPI), egg white protein (EW) or gluten diet. In Experiment 2 (Exp. 2), mice were fed a 25% amino acid mixture diets patterned after casein (AA-casein), SPI (AA-SPI), EW protein (AA-EW) or gluten (AA-gluten). In Experiment 3 (Exp. 3) we modified the glutamine/glutamic acid (Gln/Glu) concentrations in the amino acid mixtures. Mice were fed a 25% AA-SPI, low Gln/Glu AA-SPI (LG-AA-SPI), AA-EW or high Gln/Glu AA-EW (HG-AA-EW) diet. At the 5th week, mice were divided into sensitized (sen-) and non-sensitized (ns-) groups. The mice in sensitized groups were treated with two courses of intranasal application of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) in ethyl acetate for 5 consecutive days, separated by 9 days rest. The non-sensitized groups of mice were treated with a vehicle. Nine days after the second sensitization, all mice were provoked by TDI. Nasal responses and serum IgE concentration were studied. The findings of Exp. 1 showed that the sen-EW group exhibited a lower body weight gain, higher nasal symptom score and higher IgE concentration than the other sensitized groups. The findings of Exp. 2 showed that the sen-EW group had a lower body weight gain, higher nasal symptom score and higher IgE concentration than the other sensitized groups. In Exp. 3, the AA-EW group showed a higher total nasal score and IgE concentration than the HG-AA-EW group, however, the findings of LG-AA-SPI and AA-SPI were similar. These findings demonstrated that amino acid mixtures affect nasal allergy induced by the intranasal application of TDI in mice

Oolong tea increases energy metabolism in Japanese females

Oolong tea is a traditional Chinese tea that has long been believed to be beneficial to health such as decreasing body fat. We were interested in this assertion and tried to evaluate the effect of oolong tea on energy expenditure (EE) in comparison with green tea. The subjects were eleven healthy Japanese females (age 20±1 y body mass index(BMI) 21.2±2.5kg/m2)who each consumed of three treatments in a crossover design : 1) water, 2) oolong tea, 3) green tea. Resting energy expenditure (REE) and EE after the consumption of the test beverage for 120 min were measured using an indirect calorimeter. The cumulative increases of EE for 120 min were significantly increased 10% and 4% after the consumption of oolong tea and green tea, respectively. EE at 60 and 90 min were significantly higher after the consumption of oolong tea than that of water (Plt0.05). In comparison with green tea, oolong tea contained approximately half the caffeine and epigallocatechin galate, while polymerized polyphenols were double. These results suggest that oolong tea increases EE by its polymerized polyphenols

Life and dietary factors of incidence in immediate allergic response against foods in 18 months old infants

Using the method of questionnaires, we surveyed 2,114 infants aged 18 months old to know how life and dietary styles are related to incidence of immediate allergic response against foods. 12.0% in the surveyed children was found as having immediate allergic response against foods, and 91.5% of them omitted foods including hen's egg (73.2%), foods containing hen's egg (46.5%), cow's milk (31.6%), foods containing cow's milk (24.6%), and sea foods (15.8%). Life and dietary factors of incidence in immediate allergic response against foods was found in the surveyed infants who were first time nursing for their parents, or who was breast-feeding baby without any bottle-feeding. Early weaning before 4 months old was not found as a trigger of incidence of immediate allergic response against foods. These results suggested that some factors were present in life and dietary styles to cause immediate allergic response against foods in 18 months old infants

Integrated Prepass Scheduling for a Java Just-in-time Compiler on the IA-64 Architecture

We present a new integrated prepass scheduling (IPS) algorithm for a Java Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler, which in-tegrates register minimization into list scheduling. We use backtracking in the list scheduling when we have used up all the available registers. To reduce the overhead of back-tracking, we incrementally maintain a set of candidate in-structions for undoing scheduling. To maximize the ILP af-ter undoing scheduling, we select an instruction chain with the smallest increase in the total execution time. We im-plemented our new algorithm in a production-level Java JIT compiler for the Intel Itanium processor. The exper-iment showed that, compared to the best known algorithm by Govindarajan et al., our IPS algorithm improved the per-formance by up to +1.8 % while it reduced the compilation time for IPS by 58 % on average. 1