introduction:diabetes is a significant and expensive health problem which had influenced all the ages in almost all the countries. increasing prevalence of this disease has been caused by continued changes in lifestyle such as unsuitable nutrition, lack of physical activities and fatness which is often related to modern city life, mechanization and industrialization. it is an expensive disease,...

Objectives: The impact of HIV and associated opportunistic infections compounded by inappropriate dietary practices among children leads to under nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. This study determined the dietary practices, morbidity patterns and nutrition status of HIV/AIDS infected and non-infected pre-school children in Kibera slums...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition intervention during radiation for patients with locoregionally advanced (III-IVa) nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 117 patients with locoregionally advanced (III-IVa) NPC treated between December 2015 and March 2016 in Zhejiang Cancer Hospital. All the patients underwent radical chemo-radiother...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To determine whether the presence of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation nutrition team affects sarcopenia and cachexia evaluation and practice of rehabilitation nutrition. METHODS A cross-sectional study using online questionnaire among members of the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition (JARN) was conducted. Questions were related to sarcopenia and cachexia evalua...

OBJECTIVE To promote the new field of 'public nutrition' as a means to address, in a more efficient, sustainable and ethical manner, the world-wide epidemic of malnutrition--undernutrition and specific nutrient deficiencies, and also obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. STRATEGY Grounded in the health promotion model, public nutrition applies the population health strategy to...

This prospective randomized trial was carried out to test the efficacy of a specific intervention for reducing the extent of their malnutrition and to change behaviour of mothers relating to child-feeding practices, care-giving, and health-seeking practices under the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP). The study was conducted in rural Bangladesh among 282 moderately-malnourished (we...

BACKGROUND Previous estimates of the cost of home parenteral and enteral nutrition (HPEN) have excluded hospitalization costs or were conducted abroad and have limited applicability in the United States. Few studies have used validated measures to determine the effect of home nutrition support on quality of life. METHOD A cost and clinical outcome analysis was performed by retrospective revie...

BACKGROUND The management of patients with enterocutaneous fistula (ECF) requires an interdisciplinary approach and poses a significant challenge to physicians, wound/stoma care specialists, dietitians, pharmacists, and other nutrition clinicians. Guidelines for optimizing nutrition status in these patients are often vague, based on limited and dated clinical studies, and typically rely on indi...