John Waterlow, who celebrated his 90th birthday in June last year, is one of the most influential nutrition scientists of all time. I also know from family experience and peer testimony that he is a generous mentor and inspiring leader. The 1985 FAO/WHO/UNU report specifying human energy and protein requirements, the product of a consultation which he chaired, is (remarkably) still current in t...

Energy requirements for growth can be separated into two components. One is the requirement for substrates from which to form the components of the new tissue, the other is the extra energy needed to meet the metabolic cost of growth. The first requirement is, of courae, absolute in so far as I g of new tissue containing, say, 25% fat and 15% protein cannot be deposited without a dietary supply...

BACKGROUND From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, United Nations (UN) agencies were focused on protein malnutrition as the major worldwide nutritional problem. The goal of this review is to examine this era of protein malnutrition, the reasons for its demise, and the aftermath. SUMMARY The UN Protein Advisory Group was established in 1955. International conferences were largely concerned about prot...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of pre-existing malnutrition on the treatment outcome of children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. METHODS One hundred and sixty three patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) below the age of 14 years with L1 and L2 FAB morphology were included in this study. Treatment protocol used was FBM. Patients were classified according to Waterlow classifica...

This article reports the findings of a small evaluation audit which compares the Dyna-Form Mercury Advance Mattress to that of the Softform Premier Active Mattress (a foam mattress with dynamic underlay). A small group of patients with similar co-morbidities who were an emergency admission were recruited to an evaluation audit. Their median age and Waterlow score indicated that these patients w...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : traumatic brain injury (tbi) is known as one of the most important causes of mortality in middle-aged population. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of gabapentin in improvement of consciousness level in these patients. methods : this randomized clinical trial was performed in march 2008 to sept...

because of the need to develop specific measurement scales for different services industries, this study aimed to empirically develop a reliable and valid model specifically for measuring mobile telecommunication service quality. a multidimensional measurement model (ms-qual) has been proposed based on an extensive literature review and then, to assess the model validity, convergent and discrim...