Nutritional therapy of the cancer patient by the oral route includes management of factors that may cause anorexia, attempts to modify the patient's eating behavior, and the offering of nutritional supplements to the patient. Anoretic factors for which specific strategies may be employed include taste abnormalities, pain, nausea, and depression. Modification of the patient's eating behavior inv...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This research was conducted to compare lecture-and experience-based methods of nutritional education as well as provide fundamental data for developing an effective nutritional education program in elementary schools. SUBJECTS/METHODS A total of 110 students in three elementary schools in Jeollanam-do were recruited and randomly distributed in lecture-and experience-base...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an individualized nutritional education programs on nutrient intake and nutritional status of patients with colorectal cancer who are undergoing palliative chemotherapy. METHODS Forty patients with colorectal cancer (19 experimental and 21 control patients) were recruited from a chemotherapy ward at S University Hospital in Seoul...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of nutritional education or advice on physical function, emotional health, quality of life, nutritional indices, anthropometric indicators, mortality, service use and costs of care in people over 65 years of age living at home. DESIGN Systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). DATA SOURCES PUBMED, CINAHL, PSYCINFO, the Cochrane Central...

OBJECTIVE Through an interventional study in the metabolic syndrome, evaluate the feasibility of the standard nutritional intervention. DESIGN Select metabolic syndrome patients from people who received a health check in our hospital and randomly allocate them into four groups. The standard interventional group received both the nutritional intervention and health education; the simple interv...

OBJECTIVES Prior evidence suggests geographic disparities in the effect of maternal education on child nutritional status between countries, between regions and between urban and rural areas. We postulated its effect would also vary by micro-geographic locations (indicated by mountain areas, plain areas and the edge areas) in a Chinese minority area. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conduc...

In early 1920s, Joslin emphasized the importance of diabetes education and in the 1970s Miller demonstrated with evidence a link between reduced hospital admissions for ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia and diabetes education [2]. Actually researches suggest knowledge is important, in general, low level of knowledge is associated with unfavorable nutritional behaviors [3]; however, knowledge alone ...