The Scope of Practice for the Dietetic Technician, Registered provides standards and tools to guide competence in performing nutrition and dietetics practice. Composed of statutory and individual components, the DTR's scope of practice is determined by state statute and the DTR's education, training, credentialing, and demonstrated and documented competence in practice. The Scope of Practice fo...

Nutrition support is an evolving field, and modern clinical nutrition practice should actively incorporate strategies to enhance various clinical outcomes. In surgical patients, clinical benefits can be maximised by nutritional support protocols that minimise and manage the perioperative fasting period. This approach, which includes the perioperative provision of clear carbohydrate-containing f...

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Diana HAN*, Byungho YANG*, L. Karl OLSON†, Alexander GREENSTEIN*, Seung-Hoon BAEK‡, Kate J. CLAYCOMBE*, John L. GOUDREAU‡§‖, Seong-Woon YU‡§ and Eun-Kyoung KIM*‡1 *Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A., †Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A., ‡Department of Neurology and Ophthalmolo...

The Youth Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is one of the United States Department of Agriculture's hallmark nutrition education programs for limited-resource youth. The objective of this study was to gather opinions from experts in EFNEP and related content areas to identify costs, effects (impacts), and related instruments to develop a cost-effectiveness model (instrument)...

Shengping Wang 1, François Blachier 2, Feng Zhao 3 and Yulong Yin 1* 1 Research Center for Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal Science and Key Laboratory for Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 410125 Hunan, China. 2 USC 914 INRA/AgroParisTech, Nutrition Phy...

Introduction: This study was conducted to measure the gamma emitters (e.g., uranium-238 [238U], thorium-232 [232Th], and potassium-40[40K]) and alpha emitters (e.g., radon-222 [222Rn] and radium), and also to evaluate the radiation hazard indices of radionuclides in parenteral nutrition samples utilized in the hospitals of Iraq. Material and Methods: The measurements were accomplished using ga...

THE EFFECT OF A 4-WEEK INTERVENTION ON GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS IN ADULTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES BY FOOD SECURITY STATUS by Rachel Silva Background: Individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) face many challenges in selfmanagement of their current disease state. Nutrition education has been identified as a key component in managing metabolic control in individuals diagnosed with T2D. The p...