Patients who receive home nutritional care should have emergency plans
On the heels of the 2014 hurricane season, researchers are calling for home parenteral and enteral nutrition (HPEN) consumers and their homecare providers to have a comprehensive emergency…
June 29, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aid / disasters, diet, enteral-nutrition, heels, hpen, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, the-2014, the-heels
Using The Internet To Combat Malnutrition
Today, WHO (World Health Organization) is launching a new Internet initiative in a bid to stop millions of people dying and suffering from malnutrition. The initiative offers directions for life-saving interventions and assists governments and healthcare providers to combat against all forms of malnutrition…
August 12, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aid / disasters, all-forms, health, initiative-offers, internet, oncalldiets, people-dying, stop-millions, world-health
Keep Food Safe After Power Outages, ADPH Advises
The Alabama Department of Public Health advises caution with food and drinking water in the aftermath of recent tornadoes. Do not taste any food or drink you think is spoiled. Identify and throw away food that may not be safe to eat.
May 2, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advises-caution, aftermath, aid / disasters, alabama, alabama-department, away-food, color-or-texture, food-or-drink, oncalldiets, public, public-health, the-aftermath, throw, unusual-odor
WFP Launches Emergency Operation To Support 3.5 Million Vulnerable People In DPRK
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching an emergency food and nutrition operation to respond to urgent hunger needs among 3.5 million vulnerable people identified in a multi-agency food security survey that was completed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) last month…
April 29, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aid / disasters, democratic, dprk, food-security, korea, oncalldietitian.com, programme, republic, united, united-nations, urgent-hunger, vulnerable-people, wfp, world, world-food
Media Outlets Examine Challenges Facing Pakistan Six Months After Floods
Six months after monsoon flooding hit Pakistan, the U.N. reports that about 4 million people remain without temporary or permanent shelter, VOA News reports…
February 1, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aid / disasters, million-people, monsoon-flooding, nutrition, nutritional counseling, pakistan, permanent-shelter, voa
Panel Examines Global Food Security Ahead Of La Francophonie Summit; Global Fund, UNAIDS Call For Greater Cooperation Among French-Speaking Countries
World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy highlighted concerns about the global food situation on Friday during a roundtable discussion on the sidelines of the International Organisation of La Francophonie summit, Agence France-Presse reports…
October 26, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aid / disasters, food-situation, francophonie, friday, highlighted, international, nutrition, nutritional counseling, pascal, roundtable-discussion, sidelines, situation-on-friday, trade, world-trade
World Bank Extends Food Crisis Response Fund For Countries Experiencing High Food Prices
“The World Bank on Monday cited growing instability in food prices” before announcing that it would extends its Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP) through June 2011, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C reports (10/18)…
October 22, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aid / disasters, before-announcing, cited-growing, crisis, crisis-response, deutsche, food-prices, gfrp, monday, nutrition, oncalldiets, program, world
