The objective was to assess if US dairy nutritionists’ approaches toward balancing CP in lactating cow diets are influenced by demographic information, feelings environmental nitrogen (N) excretion, and dietary cost. An electronic survey sent 886 certified nutritionists through the database of American Registry Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS) via email. For data analysis, a nonparametric...

Optimal care of the burn patient requires not only specialized equipment but also, more importantly, a team of dedicated surgeons, nurses, therapists, nutritionists, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists, and operating room staff. Burn care was one of the fi rst specialties to adopt a multidisciplinary approach, and over the past 30 years, burn centers have decreased burn mortality by coor...

Nutrient acquisition is a major context for ecological interactions among species but ecologists and nutritionists have developed theory in isolation from each other. Developments in agent-based modelling, state-space modelling of nutrition and multi-scale modelling of landscape ecology provide the components for a new synthesis in nutritional ecology linking the nutritional biology of individu...

team approach, which involves primary care physicians, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, nurses, optometrists, nutritionists, and dietitians, is of primary importance for identifying and treating diabetic retinopathy, the retinal complication of diabetes mellitus. In concert with the patient and family, a team’s common goals are blood glucose control, timely screening examinations, and early ...

Iron deficiency among endurance athletes is of major concern for coaches, physicians, and nutritionists. Recently, it has been observed that hepcidin, the master regulator of iron metabolism, was upregulated after exercise and was found to be related to interleukin-6 (IL-6) elevation. In this study performed on noniron deficient and well-trained runners, we observed that hepcidin concentrations...

Compared with other nutrients, starch was the most under evaluated research topic in dairy nutrition for many years. Consequently, starch requirements for dairy cows were never established by the NRC (2001). Recently, improvements in the use of starch by lactating dairy cows garnered much interest by dairy farmers and their nutritionists, particularly over the past decade with the two-fold rise...

Nutrient density, the vitamin or mineral content of a food or diet per unit energy, has long been a useful concept in the nutritional sciences. However, few nutritionists have applied the idea in quantitative, population-based nutrition planning and assessment. This paper discusses the conceptual issues related to the calculation of a nutrient density value that, if consumed, should meet the nu...

Atherosclerosis is the most frequent disease of arteries characterized by lumen reduction of blood vessel due to local thickening of internal blood vessel by plaque/atheroma [1-3]. It is now one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. Of the ten most common causes of death, diseases of the heart and blood vessels, as a result of atherosclerosis, accounts for six of them. Atherosc...