Health Nutrition Education

Basic knowledge on nutrition is probably the most important thing for each and every one. The food is the raw material or the brick of the body building that steers us towards the ongoing journey of life.

This education does not imply any idea of becoming a dietary expert but helps us to adjust and modify the behaviour or habit that is related to food and a disease free healthy life.

It is expected that one should have the preliminary concept and application knowledge on food and nutrition.

Diet therapy and its primary role;

The primary role of the diet is to enhance the growth, prevent or to treat the malnutrition issue, to control diet related signs and symptoms of disease, to delay the progression of chronic or degenerative disease and provide additional support in some special cases such as medication etc.

Planning of proper diet;

Knowledge of dietary assessment attempts to discover the food value that persons take and the out come of the status of the food digested, the deficiency statutes and the related disorders.

The aim here is to measure the interaction of food with the human body and if, requirement occurs regarding some out come of diet related disease, to report it to the clinician.

Depending upon this, an instruction should be followed while taking the food and preferably this instruction should be guided by some expert in this field.

A plan should also to be instituted with responsibility by timely keeping a user friendly record on the diet chart. This dietary care plan should have a time framed summary record for ongoing consultation with the expert and implementation of modified dietary regimen when entailed.

Modification of the diet;

Healthy diet involves three basic adjustments; modification of the content, consistency and the timing. It is the basic and depending upon this the amendment takes place as per the requirement of the body.

The approximation of this modification is critically dependent on the different stages of age, sex and the body's susceptibility to any particular disorder, for example, diabetic diet or diet for hypertensive person can be cited here.

Consistency involves some variations sometimes, related to liquid and solid food intake by the body

The importance of timing is needless to discuss. The body follows certain rhythm in 24 hour cycle the aim here is to aid the rhythm and not to disrupt it. After all, taking food is the means and not the aim of life.

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