Intravenous fat (4 g/kg/day) was given as either pure LCT fat emulsion or 50/50 MCT/LCT fat emulsion.
First, she led a project, sponsored by the Surgeon General, to develop a fat emulsion for intravenous feeding of long-term medical patients (1953-1958).
At the USDA she also created a fat emulsion for intravenous feeding, a treatment used for wounded soldiers in the Korean War.
All TPN solutions were isonitrogenous and identical in nutrient composition except for the fat emulsion, which was composed of MCT/LCT (1 : 1) or LCT.
The objective of the study was to confirm the satiety/energy intake effect of a novel fat emulsion (Olibra®) versus placebo in the short term.
Benerito worked for the Agriculture Department from 1953 until her retirement in 1986 and received in all 55 patents, including one for a fat emulsion for intravenous feeding that was used to treat wounded soldiers in the Korean War.
Her early work was in the center's intravenous fat program, where she helped develop a fat emulsion, originally designed for wounded soldiers in the Korean War, with which long-term hospital patients could be fed.
To test the hypothesis that in the premature infant with an enterostomy, early enteral supplementation with Microlipid (fat supplement) and fish oil increases enteral fat absorption and decreases the requirement for Intralipid (intravenous fat emulsion).
Our data provides evidence that the rate of two physical processes, microcrack nucleation and microcrack propagation, are controlled by the amount of fat emulsion in the gel and govern the rubberiness and brittleness of semi-hard cheese.
We report on the successful incorporation of the antimalarial drug, halofantrine, into laboratory based soybean oil emulsions which were designed to mimic the commercially available parenteral fat emulsion, Intralipid®.
In the low fat emulsion model an increase in the content of lecithin (phospholipid mixture) was required, in consideration of the advice of the Food and Nutrition Board (USA) for choline supplementation.
