In critical care, malnutrition has a significant, negative impact on a patient's ability to respond to medical treatment. Enteral nutrition is known to counteract the metabolic changes associated with critical illness that increase the risk for serious complications and poor clinical outcomes. Inadequate delivery of nutrition support and underfeeding persist in intensive care units despite the ...

Authors care unit (ICU) is not always optimal for various reasons. Overfeeding by any route of nutrition support can be detrimental, and inadequate provision of nutrition support or underfeeding, which is more common in tube-fed patients, can also be harmful (Table 1). Additionally, because provision of nutrition support is not without risks, it is important to use nutrition support in the appr...

backgroundnutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. although nutrition education interventions in iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. the aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...

BackgroundNutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. Although nutrition education interventions in Iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. The aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...

OBJECTIVE The desire for evidence-based clinical guidelines for nutritional support of the preterm infant has been identified. Published evidence has not yielded clear guidelines about the best method of delivery, substrate use, or appropriate outcome measure to evaluate nutrition support. In addition, reports on research of nutrition support often fail to give the most rudimentary process nece...

Alzheimer is age-related, progressive brain degeneration disease. It destroys memory slowly. The number of people living with AD is increasing as fast as the count of aged population and extension of bad nutrition habits. The main cause of AD is not clearly known, but prior studies noted the importance of inflammation in Tau hyperphosphorylation and failure of microglia to clear AB peptide accu...

The limiting factor in nutritional support of the vast majority of patients is the attainment and maintenance of safe access, whether it be to the venous system for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) or to the gut for enteral nutrition. Indeed, the mainstay of nutritional support therapy is deciding the appropriate route for nutritional support and obtaining access to provide that support. Centra...

In the mid 1970s hospital malnutrition was ‘outed’ as an unacceptable aspect of clinical care, resulting in a surge of interest and investigation that has since changed the way nutritional assessment and support is practised in clinical contexts. The lead editorial in this issue points out that food insecurity is a public health nutrition challenge affecting communities in many, if not all, par...