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This ppt is for class 12 students of Food Nutrition & Dietetics Skill Elective Subject (834) based on CBSE syllabus. Unit 1 Chapter 1 has been covered in this. Basic concepts of Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, Diet, Dietetics, Clinical Dietetics, Diet Therapy, Principles of Diet Therapy, Therapeutic Diet, Dietitian, Role of Dietitian in Nutritional Care & Activities undertaken by Clinical Dietitians are the contents of the ppt.
3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Students will be able to:
? Define the terms Dietetics, Clinical nutrition &
Therapeutic diet
? Enumerate the Scope of Dietetics and the Role of
Dietitian in health care
4. Nutrition
It is the Science of Foods, the nutrients and other substances
therein their action, interaction and balance in relationship to
health and disease.
5. CLINICAL NUTRITION
? Clinical nutrition focuses on the nutritional
management of individuals or group of
individuals with established disease
condition.
? Clinical nutrition deals with issues such as
altered nutritional requirements e.g. for
Diabetics, Allergy patients etc.
7. DIETETICS
? The branch of medicine concerned with how food
and nutrition affects human health comprising the
rules to be followed for preventing, relieving or
curing disease by diet is called Dietetics.
? Dietetics deals with feeding individuals based on
the principles of nutrition.
8. ? Eating a healthy balanced diet improves the
quality of our life, whereas a poor diet may lead
to morbidity and disease.
? In fact, dietetics is the science and art of human
nutritional care.
10. DIET
? It is the total of food consumed by an individual in a day
11. DIET THERAPY
? Diet therapy is a branch of dietetics concerned
with the use of food for therapeutic purpose
? It concerns with recovery from illness by giving
good diet and prevention of disease.
? It may involve the modification of the existing
dietary lifestyle to promote optimum health.
12. maintain good nutritional status
correct deficiencies or disease, if any
provide rest to the body
help metabolize the nutrients, and
make changes in body weight, when
necessary.
THEPRINCIPLESOFDIET
THERAPY
13. THERAPEUTIC DIET
? Therapeutic diet refers to a meal plan that
controls the intake of certain foods or nutrients.
? They are adaptation of the normal, regular diet.
? Therapeutic diets are usually prescribed by
dietitians, nutritionists or physicians.
14. ROLE OF DIETITIAN IN
NUTRITION CARE
Dietitian
?Dietitian is an expert in dietetics, dealing with
human nutritional care.
? A dietitian applies the science and principals of
human nutrition to help people understand the
relationship between food and health and make
appropriate dietary choices to attain and
maintain health and to prevent and treat illness
and disease.
15. ? Dietitians work in a wide variety of roles in, for example,
a clinical, public health or community, food service,
administrative, freelance/consultancy, research or
teaching capacity.
? Majority of dietitians are clinical dietitians working in
hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities
or specialized institutes/units to provide nutritional care
to patients with a variety of health conditions, and
provide dietary consultations to patients and their
families.
16. THE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN
BY THE
CLINICAL DIETITIANS
? Collecting, organizing and assessing data relating
to health and nutritional status of individuals,
groups and communities
? Review and analyze patients¡¯ nutritional needs
and goals to make appropriate dietary
recommendations
17. ? Develop and implement nutrition care plans and
monitor, follow up and evaluate these plans and
take corrective measures wherever required
? Calculate nutritional value of food/meals
planned
18. ? Prescribe therapeutic diets and special nutrition
support and feeding regimens
? Oversee the preparation of special diets, special
nutrition formulas for patients who are critically or
terminally ill and require special feeding through oral,
enteral or parenteral routes