Unaccompanied homeless youth have extremely poor diet quality and nutritional status

Monetary Diet Cost, Diet Quality, and Parental Socioeconomic Status in Spanish Youth

BACKGROUND Using a food-based analysis, healthy dietary patterns in adults are more expensive than less healthy ones; studies are needed in youth. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to determine relationships between monetary daily diet cost, diet quality, and parental socioeconomic status. DESIGN AND METHODS Data were obtained from a representative national sample of 3534 chil...

Diet and nutritional status during pregnancy.

Diet and nutritional status in elderly Zimbabweans.

BACKGROUND nutritional studies in developing countries tend to focus on women of reproductive age and children. Little is known about the diet or nutritional status of elderly Africans. OBJECTIVE to record the diet, anthropometric, haematological and biochemical measurements which might reflect nutrition and social factors in a group of elderly Zimbabweans. DESIGN cross-sectional community ...

Forgotten Youth: Homeless LGBT Youth of Color and the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act

Over the years, the rate of youth homelessness in America has steadily risen, prompting the creation and subsequent revision of corrective policies. One such policy is the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act of 1974. The Act is not a cure-all for homelessness, but it does provide services and programs specifically designed to aid homeless youth. It has had some success, but not all homeless youth be...

Poor Nutritional Status on Admission Predicts Poor Outcomes After Stroke

Background and Purpose—Previous studies suggest that undernourished patients with acute stroke do badly. The data, however, are not robust. We aimed to reliably assess the importance of baseline nutritional status as an independent predictor of long-term outcome after stroke in a large prospective cohort enrolled in the Feed Or Ordinary Diet (FOOD) trial, a multicenter randomized trial evaluati...