Oral nutrition support to prevent and treat undernutrition

Impact of specialized oral nutritional supplement on clinical, nutritional, and functional outcomes: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial in community-dwelling older adults at risk of malnutrition

“…This may have resulted in part because the placebo group eventually caught up with nutritional needs through dietary counseling and placebo supplement. Dietary counseling is considered the first line of treatment for malnutrition in many settings, and previous research has reported that it improved nutritional intake and nutritional status [91,92]. In the present study, both groups received three sessions of dietary counseling during the study.…”