Food for Thought!

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Shelisto.c.Das

NutritionNutrition is a vitally important component of wellness. It is the science of food and how the body uses it in health and disease.

Nutrition is about why and how you eat and how the food you eat affects your body and health!

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Nutrition

• There is a link between lifetime nutritional habits and these diseases:– Heart disease– Cancer– Stroke– Diabetes

A HEALTHY EATING PLAN, ALONG WITH A REGULAR EXERCISE PROGRAM, CAN HELP PREVENT SUCH CONDITIONS AND EVEN REVERSE SOME OF THEM!

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Nutrition

• Foods are various combinations of these nutrients.

– Example meat is a lot of protein, water, fat, vitamins, minerals, but very little CHO.

• Energy (the ability to do work) for the body is supplied by every bite that you eat. It is available for immediate use in the form of ATP. ATP can be formed from CHO, fat, protein after they have undergone some complex biochemical changes in the body.

• Nutrients are released into the body by the process of digestion.

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Foods Are Composed Of:

• Carbohydrates• Proteins• Fats• Vitamins• Minerals• Water

ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS – The nutrients that we must include in our diet. Our body does NOT manufacture them.

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Six Classes of Essential Nutrients

Three Provide Energy

Carbohydrates4 calories/gram

Supply energy to cells in brain, nervous system, blood

and to muscles during exercise.

Protein4 calories/gram

Repair tissue, help in growth, Supply energy, regulate H2O

Fat9 calories/gram

Supply energy, insulate,Support and cushion organs

Provide for absorption ofFat-soluble vitamins

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Six Classes of Essential Nutrients

ThreeDO NOT

Provide EnergyBut Are Still Vital

VitaminsInitiate or speed

up chemical reactions in cells.

MineralsHelp regulate

body functions, aid in growth and maintenance

of body tissues.

WaterThe body is about

60% water. Regulatestemperature. Removes

waste products.

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HOW TO PLAN A HEATHY DIET

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•Liquid Diet•Full liquid Diet•Clear Liquid Diet

•Tube feeds (Ryles’, jejunostomic, etc)

•Semisolid Diet•Soft Bland Diet •Normal Diet / Bland•Cardiac Diet

•Diabetic Diet•Low fat and Low Cholesterol diet•Renal Diet (K, Protein, salt.)•Salt Restricted Diet or salt free diet.•Low Salt Diet•Protein Restricted Diet.•Diet for CAPD Patients.

Therapeutic nutrition is provided in many forms such as:-

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Components of each diet• Clear fluid all the fluids without any residue, it excludes Milk &

its products.• Full Fluid Diet fluids with residue like milk ,its products &

porridges etc.• Semi – Solid Diet porridge with milk & milkshakes, rava kanji,

vegetable soup, double boiled rice + dal vegetable mixed in to a semisolid, butter milk, steamed fruit, Custard, Rasam, poached egg, semi solid pongal, oats porridge, broken wheat porridge, besides Coffee, Tea, Milk, Tender Coconut water and Fruit juice.

• Soft Solid Diet is the intermediary stage between semi solid and Normal Diet. It includes Vegetable or chicken Soup, Soft food items like Idli, Idiappam, Bread, Soft Mashed Rice, Kichidi, Curd, Rasam, Plain dal, Boiled and Bland vegetables. Besides these Egg and Non- Vegetarian items can be chosen.

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• Normal Diet The patients are offered south Indian. Jain and Western: both Vegetarian and Non- Vegetarian meals for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

This includes soup as an optional item with rice, Chapathi, 2 Vegetables, Rasam, Sambar/ Dhal, Curd, Salad and Fruit.

(Jain patients (food without onion, garlic).• Diabetic Diet is normal with restrictions on a few items to control

calories and blood glucose. Emphasis is laid on equal distribution of Calories for three major meals and equal spacing of meals. Refined sugars are cut out completely. Desserts and Sweets are avoided. Sweet lime, Orange, Apple, Pineapple, Papaya, Water Melon and Guava are the Fruits provided – one per day.

• Renal Diet has a variety of restriction like fluids, salt, potassium, protein etc. These restrictions are individualistic.

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Flow Chart to contact the right channel for zero error service

NEW ADMISSION, DIET CHANGE, NBM OVER

Call 7023 for admission, Call 7032/7047 for food on and NBM over and also for admission, NBM over, diet change clarification related to diet and also enter it in the system (Please mention the diet every

time you call up and Calling up for diet is for short duration till

the actual process is in place.

Thank you