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Nutrition: the new world disorder [PDF]
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002 Scale up ‘we are what we eat’ and nutrition is revealed as an aspect of world governance. The quality and nature of food systems has always tended to determine not only the health and welfare but also the fate of nations. The independence of nations depends on their development of their own human and natural resources, including food systems, which, if
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Swallowing disorders and nutritional support
Dysphagia, 1990Evaluation of nutritional needs in patients with swallowing disorders should include a global assessment. This includes a nutritional assessment, a determination of the metabolic state, and a separation of the causes of nutrient deficits due to the patient's underlying disease(s) from diminished nutrient intake related to the dysphagia.
Robert M. Craig, Daniel Ganger
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1994
Publisher Summary This chapter presents an overview of nutritional disorders. Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) represents a breakdown of adaptive mechanisms, which is manifested as clinical illness. PEM is characteristically a disorder of children and as such is the most widespread and serious nutritional problem known to medical science. The chapter
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Publisher Summary This chapter presents an overview of nutritional disorders. Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) represents a breakdown of adaptive mechanisms, which is manifested as clinical illness. PEM is characteristically a disorder of children and as such is the most widespread and serious nutritional problem known to medical science. The chapter
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Nutritional disorders in rural Rajasthan
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1980A study of 1,000 underfive rural children in 742 families, majority (72.8 per cent) belonging to socio-economic status IV and V, revealed that malnutrition was present in 82.5 per cent of children. Vitamin deficiencies were detected clinically in 22.9 per cent of children, the most common being vitamin A deficiency (12.4 per cent), followed by rickets (
A. L. Soni, Gupta Bd, R. N. Singh
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Nutritional Deficiencies and Disorders
2019Diet history is an important parameter in nutrition science. A diet must provide optimal nutrition to prevent diet-related disorders (undernutrition or overnutrition). Balanced nutrition results in a healthy life. Humans may suffer from malnutrition due to starvation, malabsorption syndrome, maldigestion, protein energy malnutrition (PEM), and eating ...
Kaveri Chakrabarty +3 more
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Nutritional endocrine disorders
Journal of Medical Nutrition and Nutraceuticals, 2012Diseases of the endocrine glands highlight the importance of hormonal and nutritional factors in the regulation of metabolism in human beings. The nutritional alterations affect each and every aspect of the functioning of the endocrine glands leading to serious disorders. The last century was marked by the classical deficiency disorders, such as goiter,
K. V. S. Hari Kumar, M M Baruah
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Nutrition and eating disorders
2019Adolescence is a time of great physiologic change, with specific nutritional requirements that have impact on bone and reproductive health. The astute clinician can not only intervene with respect to calcium and other nutritional needs that have impact on bone health, but also can detect disordered eating in adolescent and young adult patients, with an
Erin H. Sieke, Ellen S. Rome
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Endotoxemia, nutrition, and cardiometabolic disorders
Acta Diabetologica, 2014Circulating lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), associated with both infection and inflammation, may arise from the gastrointestinal tract microbiota, and the levels may be affected by daily nutrition. We investigated whether nutrient intake affects the association of serum LPS activity with prevalent obesity, metabolic syndrome (MetS), diabetes, and coronary ...
K. A. Elisa Kallio +5 more
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Metabolic and Nutritional Disorders
1984Epidemiological studies correlating thyroid disease with ageing have been carried out over many years. From these studies it is clear that in old age mild degrees of hyperthyroidism due to an autonomous adenoma are more common than those due to Graves' disease.
A. N. Shepherd +2 more
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Dermatosis and Nutritional Disorders
2017Diet plays an important role in many skin disorders, and dermatologists are frequently faced with the difficulty of separating myth from fact when it comes to dietary advice for their patients. From a practical point of view, the dermatologist will find it useful to keep some dietary information handy in order to deal with the occasional patient who ...
Vanessa Santos Cunha +1 more
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