Guideline for healthy diet

Guide Line	Rationale
Eat a variety of foods	- No single food supplies all 40-plus essential nutrients in amounts needed variety also helps reduce the risk of nutrient toxicity and accidental contamination
Balance the food you eat with physical activity – maintain or improve your weight	- Excess weight increases the risk of numerous chronic diseases. Such as hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes
Choose a diet with plenty of gain products, vegetables, and fruits	- Plant foods provide fiber, complex carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and other substances important for good health
Choose a diet low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol	- High fat diets increase the risk of obesity, heart diseases, and certain types of cancer
Choose a diet moderate in sugars	- Foods high in added sugar are “empty calories”. Both sugar and starches promote tooth decay
Choose a diet that is moderate in salt and sodium	- A high salt intake is associate with higher blood pressure

Therapeutic Nutrition

Therapeutic nutrition is a modification of nutritional needs based on the disease condition or the excess or deficit of a nutrition status. Combination diets, which include alterations in minerals, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, fats as well as fluid and texture, are prescribed in therapeutic nutrition.

Gastrostomy/Jejunostomy Feedings

A gastrostomy feeding is the installation of liquid nourishment through a tube that enters a surgical opening (called a gastrostomy) through the abdominal wall in to the stomach.

A jejunostomy feeding is the installation of liquid nourishment through a tube that enters a surgical opening (a jejunostomy) through the abdominal wall in to the jejunum.

These feedings are usually temporary measures. When there is an obstruction the esophagus, they may be come permanent, for example, after removal of the esophagus.