Diet therapy is concerned with the modification of the normal diet to meet the requirements of the sick individual. Its purposes are:
1. To maintain good nutritional status.
2. To correct deficiencies.
3. To afford rest to the whole body or the body that is affected.
4. To maintain body’s ability to metabolize the nutrients.
5. To bring about changes […]
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Sugar, jaggery and honey should not be used in cooking. Flour, cheese, groundnut powder and coconut have considerable food value and should not be added as “free foods” (food stuffs of low caloric value and low carbohydrate content).
In order to preserve the fibre, vegetables should be cut into large pieces. The skin, seeds and stalk […]
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The pancreas is a cylindrical gland lying between the stomach and the spinal cord. It has the unique function of secreting the hormones insulin and glucagons that are required to control the sugar level in the blood. And apart from secreting hormones, the pancreas also produces digestive enzymes. The first pancreatic transplant took place in […]
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