1Anesthesiologist, Bohlool Hospital, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
2PhD in Medical Physiology, Department of Physiology, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
3PhD in Nutrition, Department of Nutrition Research and Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4MSc in English education Faculty Member of Gonabad University of Payam Noor, Gonabad, Iran
5PhD in Biophysics, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
*Corresponding author: Mojtaba Kianmehr, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran. E-mail: kianmehr.m@gmail.com; Tel: 05157223028
Online published on 16 August, 2018.
Based on Iranian traditional medicine, foods are classified under two groups: hot-natured and cold-natured. The present study, therefore, undertakes to determine the effects of hot-and cold-natured foods on the amount of thyroid hormones, epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol, testosterone and LH in the human.
The study was quasi-experimental and the participants in the experiment were 60 students, in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, who had, during summer semester, been selected and depending on their temperament placed into three sample groups at duration 3 weeks, each of them having their own dietary program: one to be served with hot-natured foods for their meals, one with cold-natured foods, and the one as reference group with mixed undifferentiated foods. The thyroid hormones, epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol, testosterone and LH were measured pre-and post-intervention. Due to the normality of the data distribution, the gathered data were analyzed using SPSS software program (Ver. 19) and paired t-test and ANOVA in a meaningful level of p<0.05.
According to ANOVA (P>0.05), the students of the three groups showed no significant differences in demographic characteristics and medical examinations pre-and post-intervention. The amount of T4, T3, cortisol, testosterone and LH in blood and cortisol, VMA and Normetanephrine in urine no significant differences between the three groups pre-and post-intervention (p>0.05).
The results of this study showed that dietary intake of normal nature, hot or cold for 3 weeks there was no significant difference in the amount of thyroid hormones, cortisol, testosterone, LH, cortisol, VMA and Normetanephrine.
Hot-and cold-natured foods, hormones, Human
