The increasing rate of maternal obesity provides a major challenge to obstetric practice.
Maternal obesity can result in negative outcomes for both women and fetuses. The maternal …

Human beings are susceptible to sustained weight gain in the modern environment.
Although both men and women can get fat, they get fat in different ways, and suffer different …

This article's aim is to review the literature on racial and ethnic disparities in breastfeeding
rates and practices, address barriers to breastfeeding among minority women, conduct a …

Anticipatory physiological regulation is an adaptive strategy that enables animals to
respond faster to physiologic and metabolic challenges. The cephalic phase responses are …

… Power and Jay Schulkin probe evolutionary biology, history, physiology, and medical … Power
and Schulkin’s engagingly argued book draws on popular examples and sound science to …

… Phylogenomic signal within our genomes was further explored by estimating the ML
support of each protein-coding gene for the 15 possible bifurcating laurasiatherian topologies …

Chronic variable prenatal stress or maternal high-fat diet results in offspring that are significantly
heavier by the end of the first postnatal week with increased adiposity by weaning. It is …

… only empiric evidence that low calcium intake was associated with a greater risk of preeclampsia
came from epidemiologic studies and small trials with insufficient discriminatory power. …

… In all, 38 healthy participants were assessed by videofluoroscopy using liquid boluses (6×5
ml)… Data of all swallows performed by patients with stroke for 5 ml liquid bolus are presented. …

… This expected sample size is sufficient to detect differences between groups of less than
one half of one standard deviation with a power of 80% and significance at the .05 level; the 95…