Practitioners of physical activity are influenced by physical educators, because of the direct contact. The search for healthy food has grown increasingly along with the interest and demand for nutritional supplements with ...

Objective: To review the literature on the role of calcium, phosphorus and trace elements in the nutrition of extremely low birth weight infants, considering their importance for metabolism, bone mineralization and as ...

CONTEXT: Although nutrition is considered an important intervention for the management of frailty, the actual effectiveness of interventions addressing nutrition in frail older people remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: The aim ...

Iron deficiency remains the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide and supplementation is recommended during periods of high risk, including infancy. However, questions have been raised about possible adverse effects ...

Malnutrition is common in heart failure (HF), and it is associated with higher hospital readmission and mortality rates. This review aims to answer the question whether nutritional interventions aiming to increase protein ...

Objective: To assess the impact of zinc supplementation on nutritional and biochemical parameters among children aged 12 to 59 months. Methods: A blinded randomized clinical trial was carried out with 58 children aged 12 ...

To evaluate the effects of nutritional supplements on nitrogen and energy balances, body composition and immune parameters, HIV-infected malnourished adult outpatients were prospectively studied. Forty-six patients (4 ...