Describing positive nitrogen balance

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Determine whether each of the case study situations is describing positive nitrogen balance, negative nitrogen balance, or nitrogen equilibrium by dragging the label to its appropriate classification. Stella is an elderly woman with an aggressive form of cancer who riesides in a nursing home. she has lost her desire to eat, and she has lost 12% of her body weight in the past six months. Racheal recently sustained burns over 15% of her body. She is in an outpatient burn center and is receiving food by mouth, dietary supplements, and tube feedings in order to achieve her nutrition needs to promote healing. Larissa recently participated in a nutrition research study in which the dietitian determined that her protein intake equals her protein losses each day. Travis is a relatively healthy male adult who weighs 185 pounds (84 kg) and eats about 67 grams of dietary protein per day. Quinn is a three-month-old baby who is breastfed and whose weight has doubled since he was born. Barney has a rare intestinal disease that causes his body to have difficulty digesting proteins in foods. As a result, he loses more protein than he absorbs from his diet.

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