Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™- Redefining What We Do In A New Age Of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part IX

"Where Did The Protein Go?"-The Ultimate Metabolic Question To Answer In Order To Improve Chief Complaints In Chronically Ill Patients As I suggested at the end of the last newsletter, I felt, at that point, I had said everything there was to say in terms of providing a "big picture" introduction to Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™ and …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™-Redefining What We Do in a New Age of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part VIII

Practically Examining the Acute Phase Response in Relation to Chronic Illness More On Sickness Behavior As I suggested in the last installment of this series, chronic illness, in reality, is much more than just the aches, pains, fatigue, blood sugar imbalances, etc. that tend to first occur to us when we think of our chronically …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™-Redefining What We Do in a New Age of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part VII

Practically Examining the Acute Phase Response in Relation to Chronic Illness Sickness Behavior "Let's drink to the salt of the earth Say a prayer for the common foot soldier Spare a thought for his back breaking work Spare a part for his wife and his children Who burn the fires and who still till the …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™-Redefining What We Do in a New Age of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part VI

Can the Research on the Acute Phase Response that Comes from the Critical Care Nutrition Community Be Applied to Chronic Illness? I would guess that you may have noticed that the research discussed in the last three newsletters was, for the most part, written by critical care nutritionists who were, most directly, discussing metabolic changes …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™-Redefining What We Do In A New Age Of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part V

More On The Clinical And Metabolic Foundation Of Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™: The Acute Phase Response In part IV of this series I began a review of the excellent book chapter by Martindale et al (1) that describes the many metabolic changes that occur with sickness regardless of whether the sickness involves a crises care …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™-Redefining What We Do In A New Age Of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part IV

More On The Clinical And Metabolic Foundation Of Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™-The Acute Phase Response Before I conclude my review of the book chapter by Kushner and Rzewnicki (1) with their fascinating discussion of why the acute phase response (APR) exists in a form that has so many destructive aspects, I would like to thank …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™-Redefining What We Do In A New Age Of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part III

The Clinical And Metabolic Foundation: The Acute Phase Response - Definition "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" -Winston Churchill At the time I first became involved with clinical nutrition, which was 1979 in my dental practice, it was very much in vogue for authors and lecturers in this field to …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™- Redefining What We Do in a New Age of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part II

Does Published Research Support My Contention That We Need A New Approach? In part I of this series I closed with a promise to explore the chronic phase response in more detail with emphasis on research that focuses on underlying physiology and biochemistry.  However, given that the first newsletter was largely theory and personal observations, …

Entry Level Clinical Nutrition™- Redefining What We Do In A New Age Of Increased Sickness & Increased Scarcity – Part I

"...a tidal wave of chronic illness..."  - The New York Times - 9/09/09 "You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows" Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan In the article "Summer of work exposes medical students to system's ills," from which the first quote above is derived, the experiences of a …