Nutritional life cycle assessment integrates nutrition into environmental analysis to comprehensively account for agri-food sustainability challenges including micronutrient deficiencies, nutrient diversity, and impacts like climate change or freshwater scarcity, when compared traditional assessment. We use regionally-explicit nutritional data at the food product country levels calculate impact...

BACKGROUND Indicators to predict healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) are scarce. Malnutrition is known to be associated with adverse outcomes in healthcare but its identification is time-consuming and rarely done in daily practice. This cross-sectional study assessed the association between dietary intake, nutritional risk, and the prevalence of HCAI, in a general hospital population. MET...

background: periodontal infections, which serve as a reservoir of inflammatory mediators, may pose a threat to the fetal-placental unit and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes. objective: the aim of this study was assessing the periodontal status of women during puerperium and determining the possible relationship between their periodontal disease and low birth weight delivery. materials and metho...

Patients who become critically ill can have problems maintaining nutritional intake and it can be challenging for nurses to provide nutritional support. No one assessment method can identify each patient's risk of malnutrition, so nurses need to look at different aspects in their nutritional assessment and refer for specialist help from dietitians and nutrition support teams when needed. This a...

BACKGROUND Two primary categories of nutritional deficiency exist. An absolute nutritional deficiency occurs when nutrient intake is not sufficient to meet the normal needs of the system, and a relative nutritional deficiency exists when nutrient intake and systemic levels of nutrients are normal, while a change occurs in the system that induces a nutrient intake requirement that cannot be supp...

Scenario-based User Needs Analysis or SUNA is a method for envisioning, clarifying and refining ideas for developing software products and services usually where there are two or more parties involved. Its strengths lie in the elicitation and analysis of user needs encapsulated in ‘day in the life of’ style scenarios, and the management of collaboration. The use of a workshop based process comb...

PURPOSE This study examined the body composition, nutritional knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, and educational needs of senior schoolboy rugby players in Ireland. METHODS Participants included 203 male rugby players age 15-18 yr competing at Senior School's Cup level in Leinster, Ireland. Estimation of body composition included measurement of height, weight, and percentage body fat (PBF; usin...

Critically ill elderly patients' nutritional needs are not well understood and vary with the phase of illness and recovery. Patients' nutritional needs should be assessed early in hospitalization and re-assessed throughout the stay with additional attention during the transitions from critical illness, to severe illness, to post-hospital rehabilitation. In this review, we summarize recent findi...

Premature very low birth weight (< 1500 g) infants comprise one of the largest groups receiving parenteral nutrition. PN should be optimized to answer their high nutritional requirements and suit their metabolic status, but should also be validated pharmaceutically. PN can be provided as a standard, usually commercial, formulation, representing the average needs of a large group of patients. Al...

In most of the mammals, birth and weaning are two periods of nutritional transitions. Whereas the fetus oxidizes mainly glucose, lactate and aminoacids, the newborn is fed with milk, a high fat, low carbohydrate diet. At weaning, milk is replaced progressively by the adult diet which contains less fat and more carbohydrate. In the hours and days following birth, the newborn adapts itself to the...