COVID-19, first reported in December 2019 Wuhan, China, quickly spread worldwide and was announced as a pandemic March 2020. As symptoms outcomes are varied, the elderly those who have at least one comorbidity (diabetes, cardiovascular disorders or other chronic diseases) considered to be high risk generally lower immunity. An optimal immune system is critical for survival, it protects body aga...

Periodontal health is influenced by a number of factors such as oral hygiene, genetic and epigenetic factors, systemic health, and nutrition. Many studies have observed that a balanced diet has an essential role in maintaining periodontal health. Additionally, the influences of nutritional supplements and dietary components have been known to affect healing after periodontal surgery. Studies ha...

In November 1974, in response to a mandate in the revised National Cancer Act of 1974, a plan was introduced for the formation of a Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Program. Dr. Frank J. Rauscher, Director of the National Cancer Institute, selected a group of scientists who defined the goals of the program and recommended the appointment of a program director and of an advisory committee. These reco...

This study explores the impact of incorporating Food-away-from-Home (FAFH) into the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP). The new model of this study, FLEX, uses similar sets of datasets on prices, nutrition and average consumption pattern as those used in the TFP model. The 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data is used to generate average consumption and nutrient profiles...

There is increasing interest worldwide in the maintenance of soil quality and remediation strategies for management of soils contaminated with pollutants including heavy metals. The protective effects of arbuscular mycorrhizas on host plants under conditions of Zn contamination have raised the prospect of utilizing the mutualistic association in soil revegetation programmes, and consequently re...

Ana Abad-Sinden, MS, RD, CNSD, Director, Dietetic Internship Program, Pediatric Nutrition Support Specialist and James Sutphen, M.D., Assistant Professor, UVA Health System, Department of Nutrition Services, Charlottesville, VA. Pediatric short bowel syndrome (SBS), usually caused by massive intestinal resection, presents a significant nutritional challenge to the pediatric clinician. The overa...

Aquacultural production is a major industry in many countries, and it will continue to grow as the demand for "sheries products increases and the supply from natural sources decreases. As in more traditional forms of animal production, nutrition plays a critical role in intensive aquaculture because it in#uences not only production costs but also "sh growth, health and waste production (Gatlin,...

Over recent years, modelling approaches from nutritional ecology (known as Nutritional Geometry) have been increasingly used to describe how animals and some other organisms select foods and eat them in appropriate amounts in order to maintain a balanced nutritional state maximising fitness. These nutritional strategies profoundly affect the physiology, behaviour and performance of individuals,...

BACKGROUND Individuals who have knowledge on the importance of adequate and balanced diet and reflect this knowledge to their behaviors are considered to be more successful in sports life. The present study aims to evaluate the nutrition knowledge of students receiving sports education in universities. METHODS The study sample consists of 343 voluntary students from the Sports Departments of ...