background and purpose: although nutrition has a very important role in individual and society’s health and disease, it has not yet received proper attention in the medical curricula. the objective of this study is to assess the opinions of general physician who worked at private offices in khorramabad city about nutrition course in iranian medical schools. methods: in this cross-sectional stud...

Bolus calculators are effective tools in controlling blood glucose levels in patients treated with insulin. Diabetics is a new software devised for patients to facilitate and improve self-managing for prandial insulin dosing and for better controlling food intake. This device contains two integral parts: a nutrition database and a bolus calculator. The algorithm is based on a formula in which c...

BACKGROUND Leemoo is a user-friendly software designed for nutritional planning and dietary assessment applications by cooperation of Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which uses fuzzy logic for the first time. It provides a range of recommended servings for food groups, which are easier for people to follow. OBJECTIVES The aim of thi...

Proportion of disease is growing due to the malnutrition and sedentary life. In this work, a diet list is proposed to the user by calculating the necessary amount of calorie according to gender, weight, height, age and activity level. Diet list are prepared for seven days of a week as divided by six meals. Parameter assessment of users and offering recommendations are made via fuzzy expert syst...

OBJECTIVE To identify social and environmental barriers to nutrition therapy for diabetes management during pregnancy among a population of low-income, minority pregnant women. DESIGN Prospective, in-depth, semi-structured interviews performed serially during pregnancy and continued until thematic saturation was reached. SETTING Urban academic medical center. PARTICIPANTS Ten pregnant low...

Compliance standards are necessary to ensure that enterprises adhere to important laws and regulations concerning their business. To overcome the diversity of laws and regulations, software companies have promised to support the enterprises by appropriate software solutions. Consequently, new compliance management systems have been brought to the market and existing business applications have b...

I investigate the trend reversal in the labor supply of single childless women that occurred at the turn of the 21st century and its continued decline over the last decade. I find that while traditional static labor supply theory and demographic transitions fall short in explaining this recent phenomenon, there is strong evidence that increased participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assist...

BACKGROUND This study examined whether peer education based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour is a feasible method to share and disseminate nutrition and feeding information between mothers of babies and toddlers. METHODS The Peer Educator Nutrition Training (PeerENT) study was a feasibility study. Participants were recruited from an existing cohort of mothers of six month to two year olds. ...

Background Nutrition support and noticing the required goal calories in patients having critical conditions are essential aspects of medical care in preventing malnutrition in these patients. Materials and Methods This research is a clinical trial which was done on 60 children aging between 5 to 17 years old hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Shiraz’s Namazee hospital, South West of I...