Just how important is complete and balanced nutrition? In patients who’ve had traumatic brain injuries, it may spell their lives.
“For a long time, clinicians thought that intravenous fluids were enough — based on anecdotal situations and some basic biochemical knowledge — but now we know that this level of care is not meeting the actual requirement the body needs to repair itself following extreme trauma.”
Without gastric feeding within the first 5-7 days of suffering their injury, patients had a two- and four-fold higher likelihood of death, respectively. Also, the study reports that every 10kcal/kg decrease in caloric intake was …read more

Belated happy 43rd birthday to Manuel Uribe, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the heaviest living man in the world. Manuel has lost more than a third of his body weight and now weighs just over 800 pounds, by subscribing to the so-called Zone Diet. According to Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the Zone Diet,
“Manuel’s ability to lose more than 400 pounds without resorting to weight loss surgery is a remarkable accomplishment. His success can be attributed to the fact that he’s never hungry because his all-star medical team is stabilizing the hormones that control hunger …read more

There are tons of weight-loss articles over there, but as that is NOT the focus of this blog, here are a few new articles from the Diet Channel I thought would be of interest to you too:
The New and Improved School Lunch — America’s response to Jamie Oliver’s program in the UK
Incorporating Potatoes in a Healthy Diet — Potatoes are inherently healthy. It’s the way they are cooked that make them otherwise.
New Research: Breast Cancer Low-Fat Diet — Highlights a study indicating that a diet low in fat may reduce a women’s chance of breast cancer recurrence.
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Imagine if you can fight brain cancer by simply adapting a certain diet. No, really, it’s not that far-fetched.
Scientists at Boston College said Tuesday that KetoCal, a commercially available, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet designed to treat epilepsy in children, significantly enhanced health and survival rates in animal studies.
“KetoCal represents a novel alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer,” said Tom Seyfried, professor of biology. “While the tumors did not vanish in the mice who received the strict KetoCal diet, they got significantly smaller and the animals lived significantly longer.”
According to its manufacturer, Nutricia North America, KetoCal is a “