Nutritional advice

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Many hospitals offer nutritional advice. Because the right diet is crucial for the well-being and often also for the healing process of the sick. This is why hospital nutritionists teach patients the general principles of a balanced diet. Often they also give individual nutrition tips, adapted to the respective illness.

For example, people with high blood pressure shouldn't consume too much table salt. Anyone suffering from gout should eat little meat and avoid pulses and alcohol. A special diet is also necessary in the case of chronic intestinal diseases and food intolerances.

Type 2 diabetes patients are usually overweight. You should lose weight and therefore eat a low-calorie diet. Breastfeeding mothers can often prevent or alleviate colic in their infants by avoiding flatulent foods such as onions and cabbage vegetables.

Elderly people often eat less and therefore have problems getting the vitamins and minerals they need. Children with illnesses may or may not want to eat everything. Targeted nutritional advice can also help here.

In all cases, the following applies: Nutritional advice is usually only successful if the patient's culinary likes and dislikes are taken into account when creating the new menu. If you don't like a salad, you might find a taste for stews or Asian vegetable dishes and thus be able to cover your vegetable needs. If you have to lose weight but like to eat hearty food, you can swap salami for salmon ham, for example.

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