Dietary changes

Patients who have fluctuations in FT/INR levels should be asked about their food intake and any recent dietary changes A careful assessment of the foods eaten during the last several days is necessary to determine the patient s intake of vitamin K. 

Larsen, C.S., Schoeninger, M.J., van der Merwe, N.J., Moore, K.M. and Lee-Thorp, J. 1992 Carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of human dietary change in the Georgia Bight. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89 197-214. 

Huelsemann F., Flenker, U., Koehler, K, Schaenzer, W. (2009). Effect of a controlled dietary change on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of human hair. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry Vol 23, pp. 2448-2454. 

Educate the patient about nonpharmacologic measures such as stimulus avoidance, dietary changes, acupressure or acupuncture, and psychotherapy. 

Educate the patient on dietary changes to manage electrolyte imbalances associated with CKD. 

I exercise, and following a low-fat vegetarian diet all have been shown to reduce the intensity of the dysmenorrhea.17,28 Dietary changes also may shorten the duration of dysmenorrhea. These interventions require little time and minimal cost and are associated with little risk. Other nonpharmacologic options that may be considered before or, in most cases, after a trial of pharmacologic interventions include the use of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS), acupressure, and acupuncture.17... 

By weaning at eight weeks old, compared with the extreme of two weeks old, which is done conventionally, the piglet is subjected to less of a sudden dietary change, because by this age more than 50% of its diet is likely to be creep feed. Both the sow and the piglets are also less liable to be stressed by the separation. 

Corr, L. T., Richards, M. P., Jim, S., Ambrose, S. H., Mackie, A., Beattie, O. and Evershed, R. P. (2008) Probing dietary change of the Kwad y Dan Ts inchj individual, an ancient glacier body from British Columbia I. Complementary use of marine lipid biomarker and carbon... 

Changes in fauna of a reservoir following use of paraquat for weed control are likely to be indirect effects caused by decomposition of angiosperms (Brooker and Edwards 1974). Planktonic invertebrates closely associated with aquatic macrophytes were either eliminated by paraquat or survived at lower densities for at least a year posttreatment analysis of fish stomachs showed dietary changes following weed control and reflected availability of many invertebrate species associated with aquatic plants (Brooker and Edwards 1974). 

After the Chernobyl accident, radiocesium isotopes were also elevated in trees and lichens bordering an alpine lake in Scandinavia and in lake sediments, invertebrates, and fishes (Table 32.18). Radiocesium levels in muscle of resident brown trout (Salmo trutta) remained elevated for at least 2 years (Brittain etal. 1991). People consuming food near this alpine lake derived about 90% of their effective dose equivalent from the consumption of freshwater fish, reindeer meat, and milk. The average effective dose equivalent of this group during the next 50 years is estimated at 6 to 9 mSv with a changed diet and 8 to 12 mSv without any dietary changes (Brittain et al. 1991). 

If all recommended dietary changes from the NCEP were instituted, the estimated average reduction in LDL would range from 20% to 30%. 

Initial management of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy often involves dietary changes and/or lifestyle modifications. 

Jackson, A. and Hammerberg, B., Evaluation of a spontaneous canine model of immunoglobulin E-mediated food hypersensitivity dynamic ranges in serum and fecal allergen-specific immunoglobulin E values relative to dietary change. Comp. Med., 52, 316, 2002. 

At what age that should be done and how drastically the reduction should be has not been established. The evidence from the present study and the reports in the literature suggest that a change in the nature of the diet is followed almost immediately by an alteration in the calcium lost from the body. On that basis,ijt may be possible to postpone a dietary change until the first signs of menopause appear. 

It is well known that intestinal bacteria contribute to the nutrition of mammals and that dietary changes may be accompanied by changes in intestinal flora.54 Bacteria-free mammals appear to have more exacting nutritional requirements than those which are infected with microorganisms.55 It seems reasonable to suppose that biochemical individuality, which causes the chemical reactions in each individual to follow a quantitatively distinctive pattern, produces in each individual s alimentary tract a peculiar climate which is favorable to the development of an assortment of bacteria peculiar to that individual. The facts cited above as well as many others having to do with susceptibility and immunity to bacterial infection are in line with this supposition. No one so far as I know has even taken the trouble to demonstrate directly that the intestinal population of bacteria (dead and alive) is relatively stable and distinctive for different well individuals but from the facts cited above, this is probably the case. 

CLA Formation in the Rumen. The fat depots of ruminant species contain mostly saturated fat. They are subject to little modification by dietary changes, including the feeding of relatively large amounts of unsaturated fats or oils. Dietary fats are modified in the rumen via hydrolysis and biohydrogenation reactions. 

The symptoms of most porphyrias are now readily controlled with dietary changes or the administration of heme or heme derivatives. 

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