Background: Food and nutrition services in hospitals are one of the factors effecting patients’ satisfaction. Appropriate management and supervision in the nutrition sector is an essential factor in reducing the costs and gaining patient satisfaction. The optimal performance of the nutrition sector accelerates improvement and can be useful in their satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to...

Introduction: Optimal child development necessitates proper nutrition in childhood. Despite of improvements in child nutrition, there are still lots of challenges in proper child nutrition which shows the necessity of using the Past experiences more than ever. Despite of particular interest of Iranians to cardinal humors (temperaments), unfortunately, families and medical staffs are not appropr...

food labeling is found to be a very important public health tool aimed at providing consumers with information which may influence their purchasing decisions. this study has aimed to assess the consumers' behaviors about the important information on the labels and their reasons for use or non-use. this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted as point of purchase survey among 2123 shoppe...

results all databases are flexible for updating. the program can calculate the amounts of nutrients and food group intakes and compare these with dietary reference intakes and mypyramid recommendations. this software has the ability of nutritional planning and estimates normal intake ranges of seven food groups based on person need. objectives the aim of this research was to describe the applic...

In “Buying Health: the Costs of Commercialization and an Alternative Philosophy”, Larry R. Churchill and Shelley C. Churchill discuss the commercialization of health and, in particular, the commercialization of nutrition. In this commentary on their article, I draw a connection between Churchill and Churchill’s account of the commercialization of nutrition and Michael Pollan’s critique of “nutr...

consumer’s demand for functional foods is increasing, however, production of such food is not an easy task, and sometimes the sensory aspects of food are affected adversely. to ensure the customers of the quality of food, it is necessary to label the product with accurate nutrition information in order to make people aware of the positive nutrition effects of such foods. the aim of this researc...