The second limitation of this retrospective study was that it could not directly provide evidence for the efficacy of CM, but could only find a correlation between using CM and low consumption of western medicine and low cost.
Finally, there is also a relationship between eating habits (e.g., low consumption of fruits and vegetables) and the emergence of obesity, high blood pressure, ischemic heart disease and stroke [ 7, 10].
The method was optimized using the uni-variant approach and the best compromise between sensitivity, reproducibility, sampling rate and low consumption of reagents was taken into consideration.
The exclusion of individuals with high intakes of fruits and vegetables (above the 99th percentile of intake) may have attenuated differences in phytonutrient intakes between the subpopulation of adults with low consumption of fruits and vegetables and those consuming ≥ 5 servings/d.
Hemoglobin and ferritin were measured and compared between two groups of adolescent schoolgirls, one to represent population with high consumption and the other for low consumption of wheat flour products.
30 31 The low consumption of fruit and vegetables, and the relatively high consumption of an unhealthy diet in this sample is cause for concern, despite the lack of association between the 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' categories and risk of OW/OB.
Low consumption of fast food may explain our results that found no association between neighbourhood fast-food restaurants and BMI in Chinese rural men.
And the iron grip of the subsistence ethic and its ascetic consumption pattern has reinforced the symbiotic linkage between low productivity and low consumption, especially in the pastoral hinterland.
While studies in rodents have suggested there a possible link between low gluten consumption in mothers and a lower incidence of type 1 diabetes in offspring, no such link has previously been found in humans.
