background: nutrition is the most significant factor affecting the health statue of individuals and their longevity.in this respect , children and adolescents are more dependent to a healthy nutrition in order to have adequate physical growth and mental development and to be able to prevent chronic diseases in future. therefore , encouraging this age groups for following healthy nutritional beh...

conclusions a nutritional education intervention will have a positive effect on nutritional awareness of pregnant women. results the awareness level of pregnant women about healthy nutrition was significantly increased from 3% before intervention to 31% after the nutritional education intervention (p < 0.001). this significant difference was independent from maternal characteristics of age and ...

Nutrigenomics applies genomic technologies to study how nutrients affect expression of genes. With the advent of the post genomic era and with the use of functional genomic tools, the new strategies for evaluating the effects of nutrition on production efficiency and nutrient utilization are becoming available. Nutrigenomics plays an efficient role in various fields of animal health like nutrit...

BACKGROUND Seven computer-based Nutrition in Medicine interactive modules for teaching nutrition are available for instruction in medical schools. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to evaluate the instructional efficacy of the Nutritional Anemias and the Diabetes and Weight Management: Aberrations in Glucose Metabolism modules when used by first-year medical students. DESIGN The modules ...

Properties of graph representation of genome scale metabolic networks have been extensively studied. However, the relationship between these structural properties and functional properties of the networks are still very unclear. In this paper, we focus on nutritional requirements of organisms as a functional property and study the relationship with structural properties of a graph representatio...

In this review, the authors summarize current knowledge on maternal nutritional requirements during pregnancy, with a focus on the nutrients that have been most commonly investigated in association with birth outcomes. Data sourcing and extraction included searches of the primary resources establishing maternal nutrient requirements during pregnancy (e.g., Dietary Reference Intakes), and search...

In 1999 the Council of Europe decided to collect information regarding Nutrition programmes in hospitals and for this purpose a network consisting of national experts from eight of the Partial Agreement member states was established. The aim was to review the current practice in Europe regarding hospital food provision, to highlight deficiencies and to issue guidelines to improve the nutritiona...

aim and background: poor nutritional behaviors currently are a widespread issue. poor nutritional behaviors include inability to maintain control over eating, food restriction with the purpose of influencing on weight and shape, and tendency toward overeating in response to the negative emotions. this study was conducted to review the relationship between the perceived body satisfaction, perfec...