Nutrition is an essential factor of health in the aging population because it significantly affects the aging process (Floud, Fogel, Harris & Hong, 2011). In fact, malnutrition is increasing among this population due to a decrease in functional status, poor recovery, especially when one has wounds, reduced cognitive function, immune...

Nutrition is important for growing children and adolescents; however it is equally important in later years. Malnutrition in the elderly is unfortunately common in the elderly, and this has been attributed to problems of appetite, cost, and difficulties chewing among other gaining related issues. A lifetime of poor diet cannot...

Food is at the basis of everything we do on a daily basis. It provides the fuel for the body and while these may be cliché ideas it is often easy to forget just how important food is because it is in such abundance in developing nations. Considering food more...

Many of the foods that I consume on a daily occurrence are rich in proteins and complex carbohydrates. I'm particularly conscious about the foods that I eat as a result of the lifestyle that I'm attempting to uphold and, as a result, these foods are often representative of ones which...

An outbreak of food-borne diseases is defined as a situation in which two or more people experience an illness that is similar and which results from eating a common food. Such an outbreak is characterized by a variety of traits, including incubation periods, clinical syndromes, and criteria that are used...