He told them he was considering killing himself, and they asked him to wait an hour for the next available intake specialist.
Asking someone who just admitted he was suicidal to wait patiently for the next available intake specialist is akin to asking an individual mid-stroke to just hang out in the E.R. waiting room.
If participants were missing intake data at one of the follow-up examinations, the mean intake was based on the available intake data.
These sources are usually combined in the daily food intake, but in regions where not all of them are readily available, intake of the others needs to be increased.
The current study also highlights the fact that many countries in SSA have at least a reasonable available intake of protein (> 10% of total DES) and fat (> 20% of total DES) [ 20].
Information about frequency of consuming sprouts, fermented foods and habit of taking tea with meals was utilised to judge bio-available intakes.
If an EAR was not available, Adequate Intakes (AI) were used instead.
Guidelines issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) [ 10] specify that the total available water intakes for adults should be no less than 1.0 L/1,000 kcal.
Because calorie counts data were not available, oral intake (yes/no) was crudely assessed as ≥ 500 mL any oral intake (eg, juice, water, oral supplements) or <500 mL any oral intake per day utilizing nursing intake and output graphics.
If this is not available from intake it has to be withdrawn from the tissues, causing dehydration; but the usual intake is well above the minimum and the urine is rarely at its maximum possible concentration.
> -wrap-foot> aAll models were adjusted for change in fibre (g/kJ or kcal) and total fruit (% of available carbohydrate) intake In this secondary analysis of a low GI study, consumption of two additional daily servings of low GI fruit (the difference between the lowest and highest quartiles of intake) was associated with a significant benefit in glycaemic control, blood lipids and blood pressure.
