This document presents the official recommendations of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) on Parenteral Nutrition. It was approved by the Clinical Practice and Practice Committee on April 13, 2001 and by the AGA Governing Board on May 18, 2001.

BACKGROUND Despite concerted scientific, educational, and congressional calls to increase nutrition coverage in medicine for more than half a century, most graduating medical students report an inadequate quality and quantity of nutrition training. Furthermore, practicing physicians report a lack of confidence and related proficiency in nutrition counseling skills because of inadequate training...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To determine whether the presence of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation nutrition team affects sarcopenia and cachexia evaluation and practice of rehabilitation nutrition. METHODS A cross-sectional study using online questionnaire among members of the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition (JARN) was conducted. Questions were related to sarcopenia and cachexia evalua...

The relevance of nutrition to national development is very strategic; even though many subSaharan African countries do not consider nutritional challenges as critical. Poor disposition to nutrition in many African countries are aggravated by the quality of nutrition professionals in the region. There is lack of reliable information regarding the number of people working as nutrition professiona...

Standardized commercial parenteral nutrition (PN) formulations have advantages and disadvantages as compared with PN formulations compounded using an automated compounding device. These advantages and disadvantages are discussed along with the supporting available research.

Cathcart & Murray (1939), Andross (1946) and Gray & Dubois (1947) have all contributed to our knowledge of the loss of calories due to plate waste in the civilian population. This type of information, vital in calculating ration scales for the Armed Forces, is not available for the British soldier. The following data on the loss of edible food by plate waste were obtained in the course of an in...

OBJECTIVE To promote the new field of 'public nutrition' as a means to address, in a more efficient, sustainable and ethical manner, the world-wide epidemic of malnutrition--undernutrition and specific nutrient deficiencies, and also obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. STRATEGY Grounded in the health promotion model, public nutrition applies the population health strategy to...