Medical nutrition therapy for people with diabetes should be individualized, with consideration given to the individual's usual food and eating habits, metabolic profile, treatment goals and desired outcomes. Monitoring of metabolic parameters, including glucose, HbA1c, lipids, blood pressure, body weight, and renal function, when appropriate, as well as quality of life is essential to assess t...

Despite pharmacological advances in diabetes treatment, medical nutrition therapy (MNT) continues to be an essential component of diabetes management. Nonetheless, physicians have missed opportunities to provide nutrition counseling to their patients. This presents a problem because type 2 diabetes is an epidemic with severe consequences that result from non-adherence to nutrition protocols. Th...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The selection of appropriate outcome variables in clinical nutrition is particularly challenging, since nutrition is an adjunct therapy in most cases. Therefore, its effect may be confounded with the primary therapy, and classic biomedical outcomes may not reflect the effect of the nutritional intervention. This paper scrutinizes different alternatives to the biomedical perspe...

Nutrients are substances that can affect health and disease. Someone who consumes less nutrition has a greater risk of experiencing malnutrition compared to consuming enough nutrition. The process providing itself is very complex so it requires good knowledge collaboration between professionals, including nurses have responsibilities roles in the management nutritional therapy. This study aims ...

ABSTRACT Objective: to elaborate and validate face content of a multi-professional educational booklet for the education caregivers patients in use Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy. Method: methodological study, conducted two stages: (1) elaboration booklet, divided four phases; (2) validation material by 12 experts. A minimum agreement rate 80% was considered ensure material. Results: is structu...

background: energy deficit is a common and serious problem in pediatric intensive care units. parenteral nutrition, either alone or in combination with enteral nutrition, can improve nutrient delivery in critically ill patients by preventing or correcting the energy deficit and improving the outcomes. intralipid 10% and 20% are lipid emulsions, widely used in parenteral nutrition. despite sever...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition in critically ill adults in the intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with a significantly elevated risk of mortality. Adequate nutrition therapy is crucial to optimise outcomes. Currently, there is a paucity of such data in Latin America. Our aims were to characterise current clinical nutrition practices in the ICU setting in Latin America and evaluate whether current...