Nutrition recommendations and their implementation

Nutrition recommendations and their implementation

N utrition recommendations are and should be under continuous debate. New findings challenge old concepts. The media have a preference for news, and rightly so. The increasing interest in diet and health issues among lay people merges with a continuously increasing importance for universities and individual scientists to be visible in the media. Thus, there are many reasons for the often contra...

Challenges and Barriers to Pregnant Women\'s Nutrition: Policy Recommendations

Nutrition and earthquakes: experience and recommendations.

In order to sustain life during the occurrence of a natural disaster, it is vital to ensure that people's intake of water and food is adequate (prioritizing first energy, then protein and water-soluble vitamins). Infants, pregnant women, patients, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to insufficiencies in food intake, even if they are provided with the same quantity of food as others, an...

Nutrition for tennis: practical recommendations.

Tennis is a pan-global sport that is played year-round in both hemispheres. This places notable demands on the physical and psychological preparation of players and included in these demands are nutritional and fluid requirements both of training and match- play. Thus, the purpose of this article is to review nutritional recommendations for tennis. Notably, tennis players do not excel in any pa...

Nutrition in pregnancy: basic principles and recommendations.

Healthy diet in pregnancy should guarantee proper fetal growth and development, maintain (and promote) maternal health and enable lactation. Nutritional counseling and interventions need to be an integral part of antenatal care and continue during pregnancy in order to reduce the risk of maternal, fetal and neonatal complications, as well as the short- and long-term adverse outcomes. Adverse pr...