Estratégias inovadoras precisam ser adotadas para o combate à crescente prevalência de obesidade. Assim, objetivo desse trabalho é avaliar efeito uma ação aconselhamento nutricional com uso rede social no enfrentamento Este um estudo experimental do tipo antes e depois, incluindo 60 indivíduos excesso peso adscritos a Unidade Básica Saúde. Foi realizado junho-outubro 2020. As ações educativas (...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of nutritional counselling with nutritional plus exercise counselling on body weight and waist circumference in overweight adults in a multidisciplinary primary care setting. METHODS One hundred and thirty-four overweight adults (body mass index 28-35) were randomly assigned to individual counselling sessions by a dietician (D) or counselling sessions by a die...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality continues to be a heavy burden in low and middle income countries where half of all deliveries take place in homes without skilled attendance. The study aimed to investigate the underlying and proximate determinants of health facility childbirth in rural and urban areas of three districts in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. METHODS A population-based survey was conduc...

1 Introduction Communication between healthcare professionals and patients is a major determinant of patients' satisfaction, patients' adherence, health outcomes, and ultimately of healthcare costs [1]. In most cases, however, personal communication between a healthcare professional and a patient is restricted to episodic face-to-face encounters. Once the face-to-face encounter comes to an end,...

UNLABELLED The Brazilian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization recommend dietary counseling for patients with malnutrition during tuberculosis treatment. Patients under tuberculosis therapy (infected and not infected with HIV) were followed-up to evaluate the effectiveness of dietary counseling. OBJECTIVE describe the nutritional status of patients with tuberculosis. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Nutritional insults and conditions during fetal life and infancy influence subsequent growth and body composition of children. OBJECTIVES Effects of maternal food and micronutrient supplementation and exclusive breastfeeding counseling on growth of offspring aged 0-54 months and their body composition at 54 months of age were studied. METHODS In the MINIMat trial (ISRCTN16581394)...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of dietary supplement (DS) use among elite Finnish athletes in 2002 and 2009. In 2009, the authors also wanted to examine the reasons for athletes' DS use, whether athletes feel they have experienced benefits from their supplement use, and whether athletes had had an opportunity to consult dietary specialists. Cross-sectional studies were cond...

This paper describes the 30-year experience on nutritional management of non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in a public outpatient clinic located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A team of specialized dietitians in renal nutrition is responsible to provide individual dietary counseling for patients on stages 3 to 5 of CKD. Two different types of nutrition care protoco...