Setting up and running a Clinical Nutritional Support Team can be challenging and is time consuming. Team members have to be motivated, committed and persistent. High quality working relationships are fundamentally important within the team, between teams and with other healthcare professionals. Good communication, careful planning, sensitive implementation and robust monitoring are the corners...

a field study was conducted in nine villages, three each from kupwara, handwara and karnah tehsils of kupwara district, to find out the nutritional value of feeds and fodders, existing feeding practices and nutritional status of dairy cattle. data was collected from the fifteen farm families from each of the nine were randomly selected through a common questionnaire. all the farmers were found ...

results: most addict patients had a medium level of education. improvement in knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of patients after intervention was observed as follows; decreasing kap in poor level (2.8% vs. 30.6%), (3% vs. 50%), (25% vs. 80.6%), respectively; also, increasing kap in fair level (7% vs. 55.6 %), (15% vs. 15%), (19% vs. 7%), respectively and increasing kap in satisfactory lev...

background: desirable health is impossible without good nutrition, and allah has addressed us on eating foods in 118 verses. objectives: this study aimed to describe the medical university faculty members’ perceptions of nutritional health in the quran, revealing the important role of faculty members. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted with a phenomenological approach. ...

Attempts to develop defined in vitro culture systems for the growth, reproduction and development of free-living nematodes have yielded much basic information about their nutritional requirements and biochemistry. Requirements for sterol and heme have been identified suggesting that some nematodes lack de novo synthesis of these molecules. Possible pathways of metabolism of these nutritional re...

the beet armyworm spodoptera exigua (hübner) is a serious and economically important pest of solanaceous crops worldwide. the nutritional indices of this pest on three host plants including pepper capsicum frutescens, eggplant solanum melongena and tomato solanum lycopersicum were determined under laboratory conditions at 26 ± 1 °c, 60 ± 5% rh and 16: 8 (l: d) h. the highest relative consumptio...

objectives: the aims of this study were to investigate the association of mini-nutritional assessment and activities of daily living as well as examining mini nutritional assessment as a good prognostic tool ofactivities of daily living in elderly residents of nursing home. methods & materials: in a cross-sectional study, among 1200 recorded files, 247 subjects completed mini nutritional assess...

background and objectives: regarding the high prevalence of unhealthy food habits among iranian children, we aimed to assess the effect of a school-based nutrition education program on nutritional status of primary school students in shiraz. materials and methods: this randomized educational controlled trial was carried out on 221 primary school age children selected by cluster sampling in the ...

BACKGROUND Enteral nutrition (EN) is associated with improved outcome in critically ill patients and is more affordable. We compared nutritional care practice in our ICU before and after modification of our nutrition support protocol: Several comprehensive documents were substituted with one flow chart and early EN was encouraged. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. METHODS Nutritiona...

the diamondback moth, plutella xylostella (l.) is a serious and economically important pest of cruciferous crops worldwide. the nutritional indices of this pest on four host plants including two canola (slm046 and rgs003) and two cabbage cultivars (green-cornet and glob-master) were determined under laboratory conditions (25 ± 0.5 °c, 65 ± 5% rh and 16: 8 l: d h). the highest relative consumpti...