BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our aim was to investigate the safety of iEAT (a food that is softened by heat and enzyme homogeneous permeation) and iEAT-affected nutrition parameters, e.g., nutrition intake (calculated from the consumption rate in patients with impaired mastication and those with mild dysphagia). METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN A multicenter, randomized, cross-over study of iEAT was con...

It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that the total diet or overall pattern of food eaten is the most important focus of healthy eating. All foods can fit within this pattern if consumed in moderation with appropriate portion size and combined with physical activity. The Academy strives to communicate healthy eating messages that emphasize a balance of food and beverages...

It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that nutrition is an integral component of oral health. The Academy supports integration of oral health with nutrition services, education, and research. Collaboration between dietetics practitioners and oral health care professionals is recommended for oral health promotion and disease prevention and intervention. Scientific and epid...

Abstract Diet and nutrition are critical components of health, recovery from disease illness, performance, normal growth across the lifespan. Thus, it is important for physical therapists to be knowledgeable about have competency in providing information guidance patients/clients. Yet, there an overwhelming amount diet available numerous sources, which makes difficult reach conclusions determin...

An ethnographic study was conducted in two areas in southern and western Kenya to identify potential interventions to improve the quality, availability and affordability of foods consumed by infants and young children. A cultural-ecological model of determinants of nutrition identified the sectors of information for data collection related to infant and young child (IYC) diet and feeding-relate...

Nutrition is a key component of life-history theory, yet we know little about how diet quality shapes life-history evolution across species. Here, we test whether quantitative measures of nutrition are linked to life-history evolution across 96 species of butterflies representing over 50 independent diet shifts. We find that butterflies feeding on high nitrogen host plants as larvae are more fe...

this study was conducted to determine the optimal dietary protein requirement for lemon fin barb hybrid fingerlings. triplicate groups of fish (1.00 ± 0.05 g) were fed twice a day until apparent satiation with five isocaloric (16 kj/g) diets containing varying protein level ranging from 20 to 40% for 60 days. survival was not affected by the dietary protein level. the weight gain and specific g...

Aphids feed on the phloem sap of their host plants. The chemical composition this differs between plant species and is modulated by environmental factors. To understand why Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) able to infest various taxa, we investigated how aphids respond sucrose-to-amino acid ratios diet. Moreover, studied whether they are recover from periods with suboptimal nutrit...

BACKGROUND The importance of canteen meals in the diet of many university students makes the provision of simple point-of-purchase (POP) nutrition information in university canteens a potentially effective way to promote healthier diets in an important group of young adults. However, modifications to environments such as the posting of POP nutrition information in canteens may not cause an imme...