Nutrition

Nutrition, more specifically nutritional science, is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition, interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.

The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the availability and palatability of foods. For humans, a healthy diet includes preparation of food and storage methods that preserve nutrients from oxidation, heat or leaching, and that reduces risk of foodborne illnesses. The seven major classes of human nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, fiber, minerals, proteins, vitamins, and water. Nutrients can be grouped as either macronutrients or micronutrients (needed in small quantities).

In humans, an unhealthy diet can cause deficiency-related diseases such as blindness, anemia, scurvy, preterm birth, stillbirth and cretinism, or nutrient excess health-threatening conditions such as obesity and metabolic syndrome; and such common chronic systemic diseases as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Undernutrition can lead to wasting in acute cases, and the stunting of marasmus in chronic cases of malnutrition.

Dietetics at Kaizen

• Provision of adequate diet makes a major contribution towards improvement of clinical, biochemical, cellular and psychological status of the patient in the face of the disease process and the side effects of various treatments.
• Patients in Kaizen Hospital are met and assessed for nutritional status by the diwtician on a daily basis.
• We are having full time dietician , who assess the patient at regular interval for nutritional requirement. We provide in detail diet plan to the patient at the time of discharge, which helps the patient in recovering faster.

Clinical dietetics department

• At the diet Clinic the diets are planned in accordance to the medical, social and physiological condition of the patient by dietician.