Many negotiate their way through and make sensible choices, but my oncology colleagues and I continue to see patients who choose extreme dietary and alternative treatments for potentially curable cancers and don’t turn to us until they are quite ill and their cancer has spread and become incurable. To see patients with early disease, who would have an excellent prognosis if standard treatment p...

The correction of post-transplant hyperlipidaemia warrants the judicious and timely use of pharmacological agents with dietary modification and exercise. Reduction in hyperlipidaemia may have some role in decreasing the incidence of chronic rejection of allografts. The awareness that the morbidity and mortality of atherosclerotic disease may be lowered by active intervention will result in a be...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether a responsive stimulation intervention delivered to caregivers of young children either alone or integrated with nutrition interventions would benefit parenting skills and emotional availability to promote children's development and growth compared with either a nutrition intervention alone or the usual standard of care. METHODS A cluster randomized factorial e...

for useful discussion. This paper was written while the authors were working at the national Headquarters of Progresa in Mexico City; the views in the paper do not reflect the official position of Progresa. Abstract Two previous studies have used data from a social experiment to measure the impact of Progresa on children's height. However most large scale nutrition interventions cannot afford t...

Weight-for-height and height-for-age data were compared for preschool-age Haitian children enrolled in a community health and nutrition intervention program and children measured in the Haiti national nutrition survey of 1978. Cross-sections of the longitudinal data of the intervention program corresponding to the season when the national survey was conducted (May-September) were chosen for th...

Eleven female participants from a NCAA Division I volleyball team were evaluated for adequate energy and macronutrient intake during two off-seasons. Total energy and macronutrient intake were assessed by food records and results were compared against estimated needs using the Nelson equation. Dietary intervention was employed regarding the individual dietary needs of each athlete as well as a ...

BACKGROUND There is substantial evidence that low consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV) is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to assess FV consumption and the variables that influence it among elderly individuals in Iran aged 60 and over. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study to investigate FV intake by a randomly-selected sample of members of elder...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a therapeutic pathway for vestibular migraine (VM) and complex dizziness of undetermined etiology (CDUE) with caffeine cessation and pharmacotherapy. STUDY DESIGN This study is a retrospective chart review. INTERVENTION(S) Patients were recommended to stop intake of caffeine and other putative migraine-triggering agents. Pharma...

REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE: The objective of this scoping review is to examine and map reported nutritional interventions and their outcomes in relieving symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the daily lives of children and adults. A further objective is to determine if experiences of people diagnosed with ADHD, their relatives or staff in being on a diet or having to ea...

In investigating whether an intervention has an effect on survival, we exploit the flexibility of weighted logrank tests for constructing optimal tests sensitive to specified patterns of changes in the ratios or differences of the hazards as a function of time. The tests presented seem appropriate if either the intervention on trial imposes changes in life style, such as a diet modification or ...