Energy-containing nutritional supplements can affect usual energy intake postsupplementation in institutionalized seniors with probable Alzheimer's disease.
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780494273838
Description: The objective of this thesis was to assess the impact of a three-week, mid-morning nutritional supplement intervention on energy intake as assessed by investigator-weighed food intake in the week following supplement termination and to investigate the impact of body mass index (BMI), as well as, cognitive and behavioural assessments on this response by performing a secondary analysis of a randomized, crossover, nonblinded clinical trial. Thirty institutionalized seniors with probable Alzheimer's disease who ate independently underwent analysis. Individuals who responded very successfully to supplementation ( n = 16) as shown by increases in daily energy intake were likely to maintain 58.8% of that increase post-supplementation. However, removal of the supplement was associated with decreased self-selected energy intake in low-BMI individuals who reduced their daily intakes during supplementation.Cognitive/behavioral tests were not significant predictors of postsupplement intake.Disease-specific disturbances to the cognitive and physiological control of feeding may be involved.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3138.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

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