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FOOD AND NUTRITION LITERATURE SEARCH Nutrition and the client with AIDS.Davidhizar R, Dunn C.The nutritional problems that go along with HIV infection and AIDS are significant and in fact contribute to death. Nutrition not only affects overall health but ones ability to respond to therapies and quality of life. Malnutrition and wasting syndrome result from compromised nutritional status. Early detection and intervention can decrease the dramatic problems caused by these conditions. Regardless of the stage of illness, Medical Nutrition Therapy needs to be individualized and prioritized as an integral part of ones total care.PMID: 9573975 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Moving beyond the clinic: nutritional intervention in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected pregnant population.Seifert C, Reich K, Nachman S.Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital at Stony Brook, HSC T-11-031, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA. 10: AIDS Behav. 2006 Nov;10(6):659-70. Epub 2006 Jun 1. Related Articles, Links Improving dietary habits in disadvantaged women with HIV/AIDS: the SMART/EST womens project.Segal-Isaacson CJ, Tobin JN, Weiss SM, Brondolo E, Vaughn A, Wang C, Camille J, Gousse Y, Ishii M, Jones D, Laperriere A, Lydston D, Schneiderman N, Ironson G.Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1308C Belfer Building 1300, Morris Park Avenue Bronx, New York 10461, USA. isaacson@aecom.yu.eduThere is a lack of information on whether brief nutrition education can succeed in improving longer-term dietary patterns in disadvantaged populations with HIV/AIDS. In the SMART/EST II Womens Project 466 disadvantaged women with HIV/AIDS were randomized to one of four groups and received a two-phase training consisting of a coping skills/stress management and nutrition education provided either in a group or individually. At baseline the majority of participants had excessive fat and sugar consumption and suboptimal intakes of