Nutrition and elimination diets

Elimination diets in eczema.

Correspondence Elimination diets in eczema Sir, We read with interest the paper by T J David on anaphylactic shock during elimination diets for severe atopic eczema. We recently observed a similar case. This girl had developed severe diarrhoea at 5 weeks of age while being fed an adapted cows' milk formula (Preaptamil, Milupa). During a milk free diet her symptoms subsided, but diarrhoea recurr...

Restriction and elimination diets in ADHD treatment.

Food elimination diets are defined and the history of their investigation in relation to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is reviewed. After noting that a consensus has emerged that an elimination diet produces a small but reliable aggregate effect, the present review provides updated quantitative estimates of effect size and clinical response rates to elimination diets. It then ...

Improving Diets and Nutrition: Food-based Approaches

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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty: The Indian Experience

This chapter focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient intake over the period 1993–2004 and provide a demand based explanation of this shift. We report on eatin...

Nucleotides in nutrition: The importance in infant and childhood diets