The nutrition and diet unit is a unit that emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition, one of the keys to a healthy life. A healthy and balanced diet is considered a factor that can prevent many diseases. For this reason, hospitals and other health institutions provide services with nutrition and diet units in order to improve the quality of life of individuals and to ensure that they have a healthier body with a nutrition plan suitable for the metabolic functions of their bodies.

 

Nutrition and diet units provide support for people to gain or lose weight in a healthy way. It is also important to ensure that individuals with diabetes (diabetes) eat properly.


Which Diseases Does the Nutrition and Diet Unit Treat?

The area of interest of the nutrition and diet unit is wide. This unit provides a wide range of services from childhood to pregnancy, from various diseases to personalized nutrition practices. The answer to the question of which diseases the nutrition and diet unit deals with is presented in more detail below.

Healthy Weight Loss

Weight problems are among the health problems that many people complain about. Weight problem invites many diseases. The problem of overweight, which is seen at almost every age, can be solved in line with the diet plan to be applied by a nutrition and dietetics specialist and the standard of living of people can be increased in this way.
A nutrition and dietetics specialist should be consulted in cases of being overweight as well as being overweight. Not being able to gain weight is a risky situation in terms of health and can cause the person's muscles to weaken, bones to weaken and organs to be damaged. Therefore, it is important for people who have the problem of not gaining weight to apply to the nutrition and diet unit of health institutions in order to ensure the balance of muscle-bone density and to ensure that blood values return to normal.
Diabetes, commonly known as diabetes, is among the diseases caused by malnutrition. Diabetes, which is accepted as one of the diseases that occur as a result of inadequate, irregular and unbalanced nutrition, is a disease that requires learning how to eat right. The nutrition and diet unit is important in terms of determining the nutritional values that the body needs and improving the patient's quality of life by bringing these values to a healthier level in the body.
The nutrition and diet unit is involved in the treatment and prevention of chronic or acute intestinal and stomach disorders. People with stomach problems such as gastritis, ulcers, indigestion and intestinal problems such as diarrhea, colitis, malabsorption should consult a nutrition and diet unit for help on which foods to consume and which foods not to consume
Physicians sometimes work in cooperation with the nutrition and diet unit to strengthen the treatment of patients who are hospitalized for various health problems. In cases deemed appropriate by the doctors, a new nutrition program is prepared by the nutrition and dietitian unit specialists according to the general health status of the patient. The nutrition and diet unit also plays a role in monitoring whether the nutrition program is regularly implemented by the patient.
Clients who want to have routine checks in terms of balanced and healthy nutrition and to keep their weight under control also apply to the nutrition and diet unit. For this purpose, the nutrition and dietitian specialist informs the applicants about which foods they should consume according to their body characteristics and a suitable nutrition program is prepared for them. In addition, the nutrition and diet unit monitors whether the client complies with this program and how much progress they make in this process.
Sport is an activity that requires physical performance. In order to use the performance at a high level, it is very important to make and implement a nutrition plan consisting of healthy, regular and high quality foods as well as regular training. It plans and monitors the nutrition of the athlete by taking into account the sport branch, body composition measurement results, personal characteristics and whether they are in the growth and development period or not. It determines the nutritional needs of athletes both during training periods, before and after the competition and organizes the nutrition program.
Food allergies affect human life starting from infancy. Therefore, attention should be paid to the nutrition of individuals with allergies from a very young age. Nutrition and diet specialists plan a healthy diet for individuals so that the nutrients that individuals remove from their diets due to food allergies do not lead to inadequate and unbalanced nutrition.
In the treatment of eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, etc.), the aim is to bring a different approach to food by changing the impaired eating behavior and to establish a new eating pattern.
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