Background Maintaining energy balance by consuming the required distribution of macronutrients (nutritional status) is important to support performance and health in collegiate athletes; however, less than 10% of NCAA athletes possess adequate sports nutrition knowledge or maintain nutritional status (Torres-McGehee et al., 2012). A recent study demonstrated that a sports nutrition education in...

Background: The establishment of good eating practices will impact lifelong nutritional habits and overall health that begins in infancy. This study was conducted to evaluate effective educational models to increase parents' knowledge and awareness in the field of nutritional assistance to toddlers through published articles in the time frame of 2010-2021. Methods: PubMed, Sciencedirect, Web o...

Background: Malnutrition, loss of body weight, muscle and fat mass wasting are common in patients with Parkinson's disease, and are associated with disability, longer length of hospital stay, impaired immune system and increased risk of mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status in patients with Parkinson's disease and its relation to the severity of the disease. Meth...

background : obesity and over weight is one of the causes of threatening children's present and future life. one of the factors that cause this problem is parents' attitude toward preschool children's nutritional patterns. education can improve the parents’ attitude and prevents from this big issue. this study aimed to assess changes in mother's attitude and behavioral intention using intention...

conclusions this study indicated that the use of this model in the children’s nutritional status can result in positive outcomes, and this model can make interventions more effective in this regard. objectives this study aimed to apply authoritative parenting style model in children’s nutritional status. methods this research was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000 parents selected by ran...

Recent recommendations by the American Diabetes Association suggest that children with type 1 diabetes should follow the recommendations for age, sex and body size of the general population. In the case of being overweight or obese, weight-control strategies should be applied. Adherence to recommendations should be pursued by continuous nutritional education that should start at the onset of di...