CASE STUDY Ms. D is a 47-year-old female who was diagnosed with stage IIIA triple-negative breast cancer in 2014. She completed neoadjuvant therapy with doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel and then had a left mastectomy and radiation therapy. During an appointment in the survivorship clinic, she reveals to her advanced practitioner (AP) and dietitian that she is concerned about her we...

The socio-economic status in Vietnam has developed during the past decades. People become busier for work, and thus they do not have enough time to prepare meal for their children. The school meal program, organized by Department of Education, was first implemented at a kindergarten in 1977, which has been extended to elementary school since 1980. Up to date, 100% of kindergarten and approximat...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become very popular with populations internationally and in the United States. CAM is defined as “a group of diverse medical and health systems, practices and products that are not generally considered as part of conventional medicine”. CAM is described as having five specific divisions: whole medical systems, mind-body medicine, biologically-bas...

BACKGROUND Lowering energy (calorie) intake is essential in managing a healthy weight. One method of doing this is substituting sugar with low/no-calorie sweeteners. The safety of sweeteners has been debated, but little is known about how they are perceived by professionals responsible for weight management advice. We sought to explore dietitian perceptions of sweeteners and to identify the pra...

Nutrition-related problems among school-age children nowadays become potentially serious. In order to prevent obesity and other nutritionally related diseases in the young generation, a school lunch program has been proposed and conducted in Taiwan. It is to ensure that students' nutritional intake meets the daily requirement and to help students develop correct eating habits and maintain a hea...

OBJECTIVE To assess the reliability of a nurse-performed nutrition screening tool (NST) for hemodialysis (HD) patients to identify nutritionally at-risk patients. DESIGN Tool reliability assessment. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The setting was nine non-hospital private (n = 3) and public (n = 6) HD units in Australia (two rural and seven metropolitan). Participants were 112 HD patients. RESUL...

OBJECTIVE Diabetes mellitus requires lifelong treatment, most of which is accomplished in family and community settings. The present study was designed to identify the effectiveness of nutrition intervention provided by public dietitian on glycemic control in a community setting in China. METHODS Two communities were selected and randomly assigned to a routine care group (59 subjects) and a p...