approved for the nutritional management of patients with pancreatic disease [1, 2]. Nutrition therapy with elemental diets has been reported to significantly reduce mucosal inflammation and improve clinical and endoscopic disease activity and mucosal cytokine levels when used as a first-line therapy of Crohn’s disease [3, 4]. Prior studies with enterally administered elemental diets have also r...

OBJECT The purpose of this article is to discuss a theoretical basis for wellness chiropractic manipulative care and to develop a hypothesis for further investigation. METHODS A SEARCH OF PUBMED AND OF THE MANUAL, ALTERNATIVE, AND NATURAL THERAPY INDEX SYSTEM WAS PERFORMED WITH A COMBINATION OF KEY WORDS: chiropractic, maintenance and wellness care, maintenance manipulative care, preventive s...

The provision of food is thought to promote the maintenance of gut integrity. Nutrients are able to elicit and affect both systemic and mucosal immune responses. Enteral diet therapy has long been known to be efficacious in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly in childhood Crohn's disease. However, the mechanisms of action of these diets are not clear. Nutritional repletion, direct ef...

Diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are a common problem in cats, and the clinical signs associated with these diseases, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, or weight loss, are some of the most common presenting complaints for cats taken to veterinary clinics in the United States. There are many causes for GI disease in cats, and an equally diverse number of pharmacologic approaches for manag...

Diet therapy for the patient with rheumatoid arthritis? In spite of the great advances that have been made in the first week, the patients were only allowed to eat foods they were unlikely to be intolerant to. In the the development of new drugs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), many patients are interested article, it is not stated which food items these were. Other food items we...

Fourteen patients with classic phenylketonuria (PKU) were treated with a phenylalanine restricted diet from early infancy. All had satisfactory dietary control, with serum phenylalanine concentrations ranging between 2 to 5 mg/dL. Dietary restriction was discontinued in all these children between ages 5 and 6 years, and a free diet allowed. Developmental testing was performed using the Cattell ...

EDITORIAL article Front. Nutr., 19 September 2023Sec. Clinical Nutrition Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1272170

AIM The aim of this paper was to determine the activity of a natural nutraceuticals combination (AP=Berberine+Red Yeast Rice) on dyslipidemia which frequently persists after life style changes in patients on hormone-therapy following breast cancer (HT-BC). METHODS Twenty-one HT-BC patients, free of tumor, mean age 59.9 years, BMI 28,9 kg/m2, waist circumference 95.9 cm, with altered lipid pro...

Abstract Background Isolated common peroneal neuropathy (CPN) is the most lower extremity mononeuropathy and third overall in adults. It often associated with multiple aetiologies, such as trauma, hereditary neuropathies iatrogenic causes. We report a rare case of acute bilateral foot drop late adolescent female following rapid weight loss attributable to intermittent fasting diet. Case present...