The development of disease may be accompanied by the loss of appetite, metabolic changes leading to tissue wasting and, in some cases, intestinal malfunction associated with the impaired absorption of nutrients. Thus, in many patients there is an inadequate supply of nutrients which, in combination with the influence of inflammatory mediators, leads to tissue wasting and defective organ functio...

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex neurobehavioral condition which has been classically described as having two nutritional stages: poor feeding, frequently with failure to thrive (FTT) in infancy (Stage 1), followed by hyperphagia leading to obesity in later childhood (Stage 2). We have longitudinally followed the feeding behaviors of individuals with PWS and found a much more gradual an...

The article “An Iranian Consensus Document for Nutrition in Critically Ill Patients, Recommendations and Initial Steps toward Regional Guideline Development” which was published in current issue of Tanaffos has raised many important concerns regarding different aspects of nutritional challenges in the critically ill ICU patients. The authors have tried to highlight the importance of the early, ...

INTRODUCTION Proper nourishment is one of the basic elements in the treatment of patients with both acute and chronic pancreatitis. Following acute pancreatitis, the essential element of nutritional treatment is dietary education. The dietary approach is used not only for treatment, but also for prevention of reoccurrence of the condition. AIM To evaluate nutritional knowledge of patients wit...

We propose a notion of a sub-model for each agent at each state in the Heifetz et al (2006) model of interactive unawareness. Presuming that each agent is fully cognizant of his sub-model causes no di¢ culty and fully describes his knowledge and his beliefs about the knowledge and awareness of others. In addition by relaxing some of the conditions that Heifetz et al imposed in their framework w...

Improvement in the health status of children over last 50 – 100 years has been spectacular. This was because targeted interventions carried out to combat infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies. However, injury remains a threat wellbeing is recognized as major killer worldwide. There are factors that make particularly susceptible injuries. The fact child injuries predictable preventabl...