Nutrition Reviews

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05140.xpmid: 4692920

Hansen, R. Gaurth

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05134.xpmid: 4739575

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05135.xpmid: 4571257

The impaired insulin response to glucose in prediabetics can be overcome by increasing the magnitude of glucose stimulus. It is suggested that glucose acts through the adenyl cyclase system and that insensitivity of beta cells to glucose is the fundamental defect in diabetes. Conversion of glucose to sorbitol is essential for insulin release. Does sorbitol stimulate adenyl cyclase?

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05136.xpmid: 4571251

Glucose metabolized by muscle during exercise comes mainly from the liver. Pyruvate formed in the muscle cell combines with amino groups to produce alanine which serves to transport amino nitrogen to the liver in a non‐toxic form. The carbon skeleton of alanine is converted to glucose in the liver, thus completing a glucose‐alanine cycle.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05137.xpmid: 4571252

Malnourished infants with celiac disease were followed longitudinally for the first three years of treatment. In this time complete recovery in weight, height, bone age, and metacarpal cortical thickness occurred, demonstrating the good growth potential of the undernourished one‐year‐old.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05138.xpmid: 4632588

Continuous intragastric milk infusion is demonstrated to be a safe and satisfactory method of feeding infants born prematurely.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05139.xpmid: 4572008

Certain biochemical measures of brain growth are altered in children who have failed to grow normally in utero.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05141.xpmid: N/A

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05142.xpmid: N/A

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05143.xpmid: 4632589

Hepatic synthesis apparently contributes about three‐fourths of the total endogenous cholesterol synthesized in baboons fed a low cholesterol diet. Absorption of dietary cholesterol in an amount equivalent to normal hepatic synthesis produces almost complete inhibition of hepatic synthesis but has little effect on total non‐hepatic synthesis of cholesterol.