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Nutrients May 2021Fasting potentials are the most interesting topics in the Nutritional Era. Fasting consists of the catabolism of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates to maintain blood...
Fasting potentials are the most interesting topics in the Nutritional Era. Fasting consists of the catabolism of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates to maintain blood glucose levels in a normal range. The action mechanisms of fasting were firstly understood in minor organisms and later in humans. Nutritional interventions of caloric restriction could attenuate age-associated epigenetic alterations and could have a protective effect against cellular alterations, promoting longevity and health span. While most fasting studies point out the weight and fat mass decreases, it is important to define specific guidelines for fasting and non-fasting days to enhance adherence, minimize the dropout rates of the interventions, and maximize body composition improvement. Although the panorama of evidence on fasting and caloric restriction is wide, there is a lack of a safe fasting protocol to guide physicians in its prescription. The main goal is to identify a how to use guide, a major posology of fasting, inserted within a huge dietetic personalized strategy leading to an optimal and healthy nutritional status.
Topics: Body Composition; Caloric Restriction; Dietetics; Fasting; Humans; Longevity; Practice Guidelines as Topic
PubMed: 34067055
DOI: 10.3390/nu13051570 -
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition... Sep 2020
Topics: Bariatric Surgery; Dietetics; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Humans; Malnutrition; Nutrition Assessment; Obesity
PubMed: 32740160
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000679 -
Nutrients May 2023Nutrition and dietetics (ND) training encourages behaviors that can be considered risk factors for eating disorders or disordered eating. This paper aims to explore the... (Review)
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BACKGROUND
Nutrition and dietetics (ND) training encourages behaviors that can be considered risk factors for eating disorders or disordered eating. This paper aims to explore the prevalence of eating disorders (EDs) and predictors of eating disorders (/P-EDs) in ND students.
METHODS
A systematic scoping review of the literature was performed on PubMed, ERIC, PsychINFO, OVID Medline, and Scopus in October 2022.
RESULTS
A total of 2097 papers were retrieved from the search, of which 19 studies met the inclusion criteria. The resultant literature reported that 4-32% of ND students were at high risk of EDs ( = 6 studies), and 23-89% could be classified as having orthorexia nervosa ( = 7 studies). Further, 37-86% reported body image/fat dissatisfaction ( = 10 studies), and 100% of students reported weight dissatisfaction ( = 1 study).
CONCLUSIONS
This paper highlights the prevalence of EDs and P-EDs across ND students. Further research is warranted to explore the cause, context, and impact on ND students' wellbeing and professional identity and supporting diversity within the profession. Future studies should also consider curriculum approaches to address this occupational hazard.
Topics: Humans; Dietetics; Prevalence; Universities; Feeding Behavior; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Students
PubMed: 37242199
DOI: 10.3390/nu15102317 -
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and... Sep 2020In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans, the world has risen up in pain and anguish to condemn social injustice and racism that has...
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans, the world has risen up in pain and anguish to condemn social injustice and racism that has systematically impacted the lives of people of color. Many of you have shared your outrage and impatience regarding lack of diversity in our profession, structural racism in our American culture that leads to inequities, and the need for a lasting systemic change. You have asked for implicit bias training, cultural humility, and frank conversations. You have asked us to look internally as individual members and as an organization. And you have asked us to listen.
Topics: Black or African American; Dietetics; Healthcare Disparities; Humans; Organizational Innovation; Racism; Social Discrimination
PubMed: 32829773
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2020.07.001 -
Nutrition & Dietetics: the Journal of... Feb 2022
Topics: Dietetics; Humans; Nutritional Sciences; Nutritional Status
PubMed: 35233910
DOI: 10.1111/1747-0080.12725 -
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and... Mar 2023Overweight and obesity affect most adults living in the United States and are causally linked to several adverse health outcomes. Registered dietitian nutritionists or...
Medical Nutrition Therapy Interventions Provided by Dietitians for Adult Overweight and Obesity Management: An Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence-Based Practice Guideline.
Overweight and obesity affect most adults living in the United States and are causally linked to several adverse health outcomes. Registered dietitian nutritionists or international equivalents (dietitians) collaborate with each client and other health care professionals to meet client-centered goals, informed by the best available evidence, and translated through a lens of clinical expertise and client circumstances and preferences. Since the last iteration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics guideline on adult weight management in 2014, considerable research has been conducted and circumstances confronting dietitians have evolved. Thus, updated guidance is needed. The objective of this evidence-based practice guideline is to provide recommendations for dietitians who deliver medical nutrition therapy behavioral interventions for adults (18 years and older) with overweight and obesity to improve cardiometabolic outcomes, quality of life, and weight outcomes, when appropriate for and desired by the client. Recommendations in this guideline highlight the importance of considering complex contributors to overweight and obesity and individualizing interventions to client-centered goals based on specific needs and preferences and shared decision making. The described recommendations have the potential to increase access to care and decrease costs through utilization of telehealth and group counseling as effective delivery methods, and to address other barriers to overweight and obesity management interventions. It is essential for dietitians to collaborate with clients and interprofessional health care teams to provide high-quality medical nutrition therapy interventions using the nutrition care process to promote attainment of client-centered outcomes for adults with overweight or obesity.
Topics: Adult; Humans; United States; Dietetics; Overweight; Nutritionists; Quality of Life; Obesity; Nutrition Therapy; Evidence-Based Practice
PubMed: 36462613
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2022.11.014 -
The Australian Journal of Rural Health Oct 2023The aim of this study was to summarise key evidence from recent Australian rural nutrition research and provide recommendations for future nutrition and dietetics... (Review)
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AIM
The aim of this study was to summarise key evidence from recent Australian rural nutrition research and provide recommendations for future nutrition and dietetics research with rural communities.
CONTEXT
Clear evidence demonstrates that diet plays a role in the health gap between rural and metropolitan Australia. Despite the opportunity to address the health of rural Australians through better nutrition, alarmingly low investment in nutrition and dietetics research has occurred historically, and over the past decade.
APPROACH
A review of the evidence was undertaken by rural nutrition and dietetics leaders to provide a commentary piece to inform future rural nutrition research efforts.
CONCLUSION
Establishing strong, collaborative place-based nutrition and dietetics research teams are necessary to combat the significant gaps in the scientific knowledge of solutions to improve nutrition in rural Australia. Further, dieticians and nutritionists who live in and understand the rural contexts are yet to be fully harnessed in research, and better engaging with these professionals will have the best chance of successfully addressing the nutrition-related disease disparity between rural and metropolitan Australia.
Topics: Humans; Dietetics; Rural Population; Australia; Nutritional Status; Nutritionists
PubMed: 37723938
DOI: 10.1111/ajr.13041 -
Journal of Human Nutrition and... Dec 2022
Topics: Humans; Dietetics; COVID-19; Pandemics; Nutritional Status; Publishing
PubMed: 36385520
DOI: 10.1111/jhn.13060 -
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and... Sep 2019
Topics: Career Choice; Dietetics; Humans; Job Satisfaction; Nutritionists
PubMed: 31446934
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2019.07.006 -
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and... Mar 2020
Topics: Dietetics; Female; Forecasting; Humans; Male; Students, Health Occupations
PubMed: 32087822
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2020.01.003