Nutritional imbalance

NUTRITIONAL IMBALANCE The antiviral dragp may-cause anorexia, nausea, or vomiting. These effects range from mild to severe. The patient may be able to tolerate small, frequent meals with soft, nonirritating foods if nausea is mild. Frequent sips of carbonated beverages or hot tea may be helpful for others. It is important to keep the atmosphere clean and free of odors. The nurse provides good oral care before and after meals. If nausea is severe or the patient is vomiting, the nurse notifies the primary health care provider. 

Managing Fluid Volume Deficit and Nutritional imbalances... 

ADI not specified and ADI not limited are terms applicable to a food substance of very low toxicity that, on the basis of the available data — chemical, biochemical, toxicological, and other, as well as total dietary intake of the substance, arising from its use at levels to achieve the desired effect and from its acceptable background in food — does not, in the opinion of JECFA, represent a hazard to health. For this reason and those stated in individual evaluations, the establishment of ADI in numerical form is not deemed necessary. An additive meeting this criterion must be used within the bound of good manufacturing practice, i.e., it should be technologically efficacious and should be used at the lowest level necessary to achieve this effect it should not conceal inferior food quality or adulteration, and it should not create a nutritional imbalance. 

For a soil that is barely saline (EC 4 mS/cm), an osmotic pressure of about 1.5 atmospheres would result. In other words, the water in this moist soil would not be freely available to plant roots, but would be retained in a lowered free energy state equivalent to 1.5 atmospheres of water tension. This, however, is insufficient tension to seriously impede water uptake by plants. More important effects of soil salinity are likely to include particular ion toxicity effects (e.g., Na, Cl ) and nutritional imbalances (e.g., excessive Na" or uptake relative to Ca " and Mg ). 

From 1952 to 1962, several experimental studies using rats fed a choline-deficient diet reported the development of aortic arteriosclerosis.171-173 Using rats fed a choline-deficient diet, Sidransky et al.174 reported that elevated (2%) dietary tryptophan affected the elevated serum lipid levels of rats fed the choline-deficient diet for 1 week. Within 1 week the added dietary tryptophan to the choline-deficient diet caused a return in serum cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglyceride values to levels present in rats fed the choline-supplemented diet. The significance of the alterations in serum lipids due to added dietary tryptophan was unknown, but it stressed that a specific amino acid (L-tryptophan) excess created a further nutritional imbalance, which could influence the altered circulating serum lipids due to choline deficiency. The alterations in serum lipid due to choline deficiency were thought to influence the development of arteriosclerosis in the rat, and possibly the added dietary tryptophan was able to prevent the effect. Further experimental studies are needed to determine whether this speculation was valid. 

The effects of low pH on plant growth are generally caused by increases of toxic ions, or decreases of essential ions, in the soil solution. Such effects can also arise from nutritional imbalances because the concentrations can increase or decrease as soil acidity changes. 

Surgery, trauma, malignancy, and other catabolic illnesses cause a nutritional imbalance that, if prolonged, can have a dramatic impact on the patient that could ultimately lead to death. 

Although most teratogens are chemical in nature, ionizing radiation, nutritional imbalance, and certain infections are also known to be teratogenic to humans. A number of chemicals have been found to be teratogenic to humans. These include many common organic... 

In conclusion, it is uncertain whether the effects seen on the liver and clinical chemistry at the intake level of 15% Clarinol G-80 should be considered adverse. At this high level of dietary oil consisting exclusively of Clarinol G-80 it is likely that the effects were caused by a nutritional imbalance. This is supported by the fact that most effects disappeared at the end of the recovery period. No treatment-related adverse effects were observed at an intake level of 5% Clarinol G-80. This was equivalent to a dietary intake of 2433 and 2728 mg/kg bw/day for males and females respectively. 

Mice have a much higher metabolic rate and are more sensitive to the adipose tissue reducing effects of CLA than any other species that have been studied. In rat studies, the CLA intake levels were similar to those tested in studies with mice and are much lower than the intake levels studied in the 13-week rat feeding study on Clarinol G-80 (1, 5, and 15%) (5). In most studies, CLA did not significantly affect insulin levels in lean rat models (17, 18). As discussed before in the sub-chronic toxicity study, increased insulin levels were found in rats fed 15% CLA only and were likely due to a nutritional imbalance (5). 

High levels of Clarinol G-80 have been tested in a 13-week subchronic toxicity study in rats (5). A No Observed Adverse Effect Level of 2433 mg/kg bw/day for male and 2728 mg/kg bw/day for female rats was identified in this study, at an intake of 5% in the diet. It is probable that the effects seen at the highest intake of 15% in the diet were due to nutritional imbalances. 

Marjanen, H., and S. Soini, "Possible Causal Relationship Between Nutritional Imbalances, Especially Manganese Deficiency and Susceptibility to Cancer, in Finland," Ann. Agric. Fenn, VoL 11,1972, pp. 391-406. 

In this paper, we concentrate more specifically on the causes of the damage. Chemical analysis of needles and soil were perfomed in order to reveal possible nutritional imbalance able to explain the forest dieback.Physiological disturbances in yellowing trees were also analysed. Investigations were carried out in three areas of the Pyrenean massif the Luchonnais, vallee d Aure and Pays de Sault (figure 1) who show various climatic and edaphic features and different intensities of decay. 

Atmospheric pollution can be considered as the main predisposing factor in forest decay phenomena, which can increase cation depletion and worsen nutritional imbalance. Climatic characteristics (rainfall deficits) can also be considered as a"weakening factor" in forest decay. 

Most anemias are cansed by a nutritional imbalance (i.e., iron, vitamin B,2, and/or folic acid deficiencies). These deficiencies are widely distribnted in different areas of... 

Savino, W. and Dardenne, M. (2010) Nutritional imbalances and infections affect the thymus consequences on T-cell-mediated immune responses. Proc Nutr Soc 69, 636-643. 

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