Why Nutrition Care Gets Lost When Patients Leave the ICU
When patients leave the intensive care unit (ICU), their nutrition care often gets disrupted, which can slow their recovery. This review examines what happens …
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New Tool Helps Doctors Track How Much Processed Food You Eat
Researchers in Canada created a quick online quiz called CUPS that asks 28 questions to figure out how much ultra-processed food people eat. Ultra-processed …
Read MoreWhat People With Eating Disorders Eat in Latin America
Researchers looked at studies from Latin America and the Caribbean to understand what people with eating disorders actually eat. They found only four studies, …
Read MoreWhy Doctors Aren't Using Body Scans to Check Your Health
Doctors who specialize in nutrition have access to special tools that can measure body muscle and how many calories you burn, but most of them rarely use these …
Read MoreNew Tool Helps Kidney Transplant Patients Eat Normally Again
After a kidney transplant, patients often struggle to transition from strict dietary rules to eating normally. Researchers tested a questionnaire called the …
Read MoreNew Tool Helps Doctors Spot Picky Eating Disorder in Italy
Researchers in Italy created an Italian-language version of a screening tool called NIAS to help doctors identify a condition called ARFID …
Read MoreHow Doctors Measure Calorie Needs in Eating Disorder Patients
When people with eating disorders are hospitalized and need to rebuild their health, doctors need to know exactly how many calories their bodies need. This …
Read MoreTaking Pictures of Food Makes Tracking Meals Easier
Researchers wanted to find out which way of tracking what people eat works best. They tested three different methods: two computer programs and one where …
Read MoreNew Tool Measures How Well Kids Understand Food
Researchers in the Netherlands created a new questionnaire to measure how much children aged 8-12 understand about food—from where it comes from to how it's …
Read MoreCan Surveys Really Tell Us What Fats We're Eating?
Researchers wanted to know if a food survey could accurately measure how much fat people eat. They compared what 58 Australian adults reported eating with …
Read MoreNew Tool Measures How Healthy AND Sustainable Your Diet Really Is
Scientists created a new way to measure diet quality that looks at three important things: eating lots of different plants, having the right amount of animal …
Read MoreHow Doctors in Uganda Are Adding Nutrition Help to Health Care
Researchers in Uganda wanted to understand how health workers are putting nutrition advice and support into their daily work with patients. They visited 17 …
Read MoreMany Hospital Patients Have Nutrition Problems Doctors Miss
Researchers checked the nutrition health of over 5,000 hospital patients across three Australian hospitals between 2016 and 2024. They found that more than one …
Read MoreNew Tool Helps Track What Spanish Kids Eat for Breakfast
Researchers created and tested a new questionnaire to measure breakfast eating habits in Spanish children and teenagers. The tool asks about 21 different …
Read MoreWhat Spain's Eating Habits Say About Health and Happiness
Researchers in Spain studied nearly 5,500 people to understand how their eating habits and lifestyles affect their overall health and quality of life. Using …
Read MoreCan Wearable Devices Track What You Eat?
Researchers are exploring whether smartwatches and fitness trackers can help monitor what people eat by measuring body signals like heart rate, temperature, …
Read MoreSimple Food Variety Test May Not Work the Same Way Everywhere
Researchers in Ethiopia tested whether a simple tool that counts how many different food groups children eat can accurately predict if they're getting enough …
Read MoreYour Smartphone Camera Could Check Your Nutrition Health
Researchers discovered a new way to check if someone is getting enough nutrition using just a smartphone camera. Instead of expensive tests and equipment, they …
Read MoreMany People in Doctor's Offices Have Digestion Problems and Poor Nutrition
Researchers visited two doctor's offices in Berlin and asked 248 patients about their eating habits, weight changes, and stomach problems. They found that many …
Read MoreHow Doctors in Uganda Are Learning to Help Patients Eat Better
Researchers in Uganda wanted to understand how health workers are putting nutrition advice into practice. They watched and talked to doctors, nurses, and …
Read MoreQuick Quiz Helps Teens with Type 2 Diabetes Learn Better
Researchers tested whether giving newly diagnosed teenagers with type 2 diabetes a short nutrition quiz could help them remember what they learned about …
Read MoreWhy Good Nutrition Matters for Lung Infections
A serious lung infection caused by unusual bacteria called nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) can make people very sick. Doctors have noticed that patients who …
Read MoreBetter Nutrition Care Helps Cancer Patients Stay Stronger During Treatment
When people with nasopharyngeal cancer receive radiation therapy, they often lose weight and become malnourished, which makes their treatment harder and …
Read MoreNew Tool Helps Measure How Healthy People Eat in Bangladesh
Researchers created a special scoring system called the Bangladesh Healthy Eating Index (BD-HEI) to measure how well people in Bangladesh follow healthy eating …
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