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

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 “