Volume 1 Issue 2

▪ Keyword : training, clinical nutrition

▪ Content : With a newly agreed importance of nutrition in clinical practice, the question is how training should proceed. A quiet revolution has taken place in undergraduate medical education as far as nutrition is concerned. The basic biomedical and psychosocial sciences, which characterize contemporary medical education, are the basis of applied nutrition, within the public health or clinical modes.

▪ Keyword : change, lifestyle, health, non-communicable diseases

▪ Content : By early next century a majority of deaths in the countries classed as 'developing' will be due to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Such countries must now seek to counter the rise of NCDs while continuing the fight against traditional killers.

▪ Keyword : book, review

▪ Content : 1. Review -A.S. Truswell, ABC of nutrition, 2nd edition, British Medical Journal, London, 1992 2. Review - Jean Vague, Obesities, John Libbey & Co/Editions Solal

▪ Keyword : serum bile acid fractions, neonates, parenteral nutrition, lithocholic acid, cholestasis

▪ Content : In order to determine whether lithocholic acid (LCA) contributes to the occurrence of total parenteral nutrition (TPN)-associated intrahepatic cholestasis (IHC) in neonates, we investigated the serum bile acid fractions of neonates on TPN.

▪ Keyword : branched-chain amino acid, elemental diet, biliary atresia

▪ Content : Supplemental administrations of ED-H, branched-chain amino acid (BCAA)-enriched elemental diet for hepatic disorder, were performed in 10 postoperative biliary atresia (BA) patients.

▪ Keyword : microparticulated protein fat substitute, frozen dessert, clinical and biochemical parameters

▪ Content : The tolerance of microparticulated protein product (MPP, Simplesse), a protein-based fat substitute, was evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, three-way crossover study using 24 healthy adult subjects (12 males and 12 females).

▪ Keyword : cereal grain, alpha tocotrienol, cholesterol metabolism

▪ Content : The influence of alpha -tocotrienol, the main vitamer of vitamin E in barley and oats, on cholesterol synthesis has been studied in laboratory rats. Both oats and barley lowered plasma cholesterol relative to wheat, which had no such effect, and the change has been attributed to an inhibitory influence of alpha tocotrienol on cholesterol synthesis rate.

▪ Keyword : history, nutrition events

▪ Content : Decisions we make and implement about how people should be fed or feed themselves can have far-reaching effects on population, health and ecosystems and not simply those of an individual's hewalth or even that of a community. Nutritionists and food policy makers are usually pre-occupied by the need to optimize health, well-being and life expectancy in the light of a contemporary analysis of food-health relationships

▪ Keyword : zinc, depletion, repletion, natural killer cell, aged

▪ Content : The effects of zinc depletion and repletion on spleen natural killer (NK) cell activity in aged mice were studied. Sixty 24-month-old male Ba1b/c mice were divided equally into three groups according to their weight: group I were fed the zinc-deficient diet. Group II were fed the zinc-supplement diet, but their intake was restricted to the average daily amount consumed by the zinc-deficient group and group III were fed the zinc-supplemented diet ad libitum.

▪ Keyword : baby-friendly hospital

▪ Content : A new global 'baby-friendly initiative' has been launched by UNICEF and WHO. Its central elements are hospital practices that are known to protect, promote and support breast-feeding. The health benefits of breast-feeding have been shown to be more extensive than previously believed.