The Premium Grains for Livestock Program (PGLP) represents a coordinated national effort to: (i) understand the factors determining nutritional value of grains for animals; (ii) improve nutritional value through processing, breeding and storage; (iii) develop rapid methods for measuring determinants of grain quality; and (iv) develop computer programs to predict animal performance and economic ...

OBJECTIVE Adequate dietary intake is crucial for optimum training and performance of athletes. There is almost no available information related to dietary practices among Omani athletes, especially during the competition. This study aimed to assess the nutritional practices (nutritional knowledge, eating habits and daily nutrients intake) among Omani male handball athletes in Muscat city, Oman....

PURPOSE Elderly cancer patients are at increased risk for malnutrition. We aim to identify comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) based clinical factors associated with increased nutritional risk and develop a clinical scoring system to identify nutritional risk in elderly cancer patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS CGA data was collected from 249 Asian patients aged 70 years or older. Nutritiona...

UNLABELLED The aim of our study was to assess whether the influence of nutritional support, consisting of counseling, enteral liquids support and pharmacologic support, can slow down weight loss and whether the change in weight has the impact on the performance status in our patients. In our study 44 patients with pancreatic cancer were included--26 males (mean age 69 years +/- 2.4 years) and 1...

OBJECTIVE The interaction between dementia and nutritional state is very complex and not yet fully understood. The aim of the present study was to assess the interaction between cognitive impairment and nutritional state in a cohort of residential elderly in relationship with functional condition of patients and their load of assistance in long-term-care facilities of the National Association o...

This paper proposes a framework for mining market basket data to generate Nutritional Patterns (NPs) and a method for analysing generated nutritional patterns using Fuzzy Association Rule Mining. Edible attributes are filtered from transactional input data by projections and are then converted to Required Daily Allowance (RDA) numeric values. The RDA database is...

background and objective: malnutrition is a very common clinical disorder risk factor in elderly people, which is not diagnosed in most cases and, therefore, remains untreated. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in free-living elderly people and its relationship with socioeconomic factors (sef) in the elderly subjects in khorasan razavi province, iran. m...

introduction: the mini nutritional assessment (mna) has been developed to assess malnutrition in elderly  and to filter those who might get benefited from early diagnosis and treatment. the objective of the present study was to examine the nutritional profile of old age hospitalized individuals through the use of the mna in king khalid hospital at hail city of saudi arabia. methods: demographic...

OBJECTIVE To explore associations between the nutritional quality of diet at age 16 years and academic performance in students from Santiago, Chile. METHODS We assessed the nutritional quality of diet, using a validated food frequency questionnaire, in 395 students aged 16.8 ± 0.5 years. Depending on the amount of saturated fat, fibre, sugar and salt in the foods, diet was categorized as unhe...