Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver – (Mahatma Gandhi)So let this be the advice for “HEALTHIER YOU” for now and later years. This is within your reach

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Healthy living is a life time commitment with no short cuts. Small steps taken in the right directions will make today healthy and pave the way for a healthier tomorrow.

For A Healthy Life:

A nutritionally balanced diet in terms of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, electrolytes and vitamins is essential for general well-being. It enhances the immunity of the person by providing daily requirement of nutrients to the body. Therefore, healthy eating habits go a long way in ensuring a healthy life.

Good Nutritional Statusis essential for:

• Normal organ development and function
• Normal reproduction
• Growth and maintenance
• Optimum activity and working efficiency
• Resistance to infection
• The ability to repair body damage or injury

• Decrease in energy levels and lethargy
• Protein calorie malnutrition
• Slow recovery and frequent recurrence of disease
• Poor wound healing
• Increased risk of infection in the presence of nutritional deficiencies
• It is for this reason that good nutrition during illness and recovery phase is of prime importance

Diet Plan On The Other End Of The Scale Is:

Over nutrition or obesityis leading to early onset of diseases like diabetes, hypertension and atherosclerosis.These to a certain extent can be controlled with a well-balanced diet and a good exercise regime.

• Anthropometric measurements
• Biochemical indices
• Clinical examination
• Dietary history

The dietary intervention is done taking into consideration the disease condition, social background and nutritional status of the patients. The patients are visited and assessed on daily basis by the dietician and thediets are modified in accordance to the progress of the patients.For critically ill patients, the nutritional status is assessed on a daily basis and special tube feeds are indigenously prepared for each patients and closely monitored on daily basis in coordination with the medical team. These special tailor-made feeds help the patient in recovery from the critical illness maintaining his nutritional status which plays a vital role in the curative and recovery phase of the patient.