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with low serum concentrations of high sensitive C reactive protein, tumor
necrosis factor-α, and interleukin-6. There was no correlation between legume
intake and serum amyloid A concentrations. Legume consumption is inversely
associated with serum concentrations of adhesion molecules and inflammatory
biomarkers among Iranian women (Esmaillzadeh and Azadbakht, 2012).
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Rahman et al. (2007) investigated the association between dietary factors
and cognitive impairment, employing over one thousand subjects with a mean
age of 69 years and mean years of education of 10.7 who were participants in
the State-wide Survey of Alabama's Elderly (1986-87). Basic demographic
information, Mental Status Questionnaire score, and frequency of consumption
of peas and dried beans, vegetables, fruits, bread /cereal, milk, cheese, meat
(beef, pork, lamb), chicken or turkey, fish, and desserts, were obtained in an
inhome interview.Only cheese consumption was found to be inversely related
with cognitive impairment in a simple logistic regression analysis, and in a
multiple logistic regression analysis, after adjusting for basic socio-
demographic factors and for other dietary factors. In the multiple logistic
regression analysis, bread or cereal was inversely associated with, and dessert
intake positively associated with cognitive impairment. Peas and beans were
devoid of an effect (Rahman et al., 2007).
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CTIVITY IN THE
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The effect of vegetables on changes in gene expression in the lungs of
female C57Bl/6 mice was investigated using cDNA microarray technology.
The mice were fed one of the following diets for a fortnight: a control diet
devoid of vegetables (diet 1); a diet containing a vegetable mixture at 100 (diet
2, 10% dose), 200 (diet 3, 20% dose),or 400 (diet 4, 40% dose) g/kg; or a diet
with cauliflower at 70 (diet 5, 7% dose); carrots at 73 (diet 6, 7.3% dose); peas
at 226 (diet 7, 22.6% dose); or onions at 31 (diet 8, 3.1% dose) g/kg. The
vegetable mixture contained all four vegetables. After the mice were killed,
the lungs were removed and total RNA was isolated from the lungs for
expression analysis of 602 genes involved in pathways of (anti)-
carcinogenesis. The results of this study suggest that individual vegetables
