Recently, the prevalence of diabetic mellitus patients in Korea has been increasing, and it increasing with age. The treatment goal diabetes is to prevent complications through blood sugar management, for which important maintain an appropriate nutritional state. Unbalanced diet refers excessive or insufficient nutrition, can be generally confirmed weight conditions. Therefore, medical nutritio...

BACKGROUND Failure to use the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in patients with acute pancreatitis may exacerbate the stress response and disease severity, leading to greater incidence of complications and prolonged hospitalization. The objectives of this study were to determine the optimum route for nutrition support, whether nutrition therapy is better than no artificial nutrition support, whether...

HEADINGS Electronic protocol. Enteral nutrition. Home care services. ABSTRACT Background: Informatics can help the development of home enteral nutrition therapy (HENT). By using an electronic protocol with an electronic database it is possible to organize, structure and manage, information. Aim: To develop an electronic protocol for data collection on treatment of patients with home enteral nut...

The description of a new score of nutrition risk in critically ill patients in the previous issue of Critical Care is very appropriate and timely. However, the use of this score will probably not help the clinician to improve the prescription of nutrition therapy, especially when major uncertainties are raised about the definition of adequate nutrition. The validation of the score will require ...

The authors present information on ketogenic nutrition therapy to help clinicians understand the basics of these plans and how their use can impact patient care outcomes beyond weight loss.

Nutrition support for patients in hospital has become an essential form of therapy. Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) was the preferred way of giving nutrition to hospital patients for many years but enteral nutrition (EN) is now the preferred route. EN is believed to promote gut function and prevent translocation of intestinal bacteria, thus reducing the incidence of sepsis in critically ill pa...

INTRODUCTION Medical nutrition therapy is integral to total diabetes care and management. Diet is the one of the treatment common to all diabetics and in the mildest cases is all that is needed to restore carbohydrate tolerance to normal. Dietary control plays a role in any of the three ways currently used in the management of diabetes which are as follows: • Diet alone • Diet and oral hypoglyc...

AIM This prospective, single-group, pre-post design trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of individualised Medical Nutrition Therapy intervention administered by a dietitian in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus on glycaemic control, metabolic parameters and dietary intake. METHODS Subjects (n=104; age=56.4 ±9.9 years; 37% male; years of diagnosis = 6.3 ±4.9 years) treated with d...