NUTRITION AND DIET

One of the keys to a healthy life is proper, balanced and regular nutrition. In order to increase the quality of life of people, to ensure a healthy and balanced diet, the nutrition and diet unit is called the unit that serves patients and clients in order to achieve a healthier body by applying a nutrition plan suitable for the metabolic activities of their bodies.

Eating randomly only to fill the stomach and suppress the feeling of hunger causes unbalanced and unhealthy nutrition, which causes many diseases. Not taking some nutrients at all or taking insufficient nutrients can cause many different ailments by causing a deficiency of vitamins and minerals that the body needs, and consuming some foods excessively and unbalanced can cause excess weight and organ fat.

What is Diet?

It is a healthy nutrition programme specially prepared by professional dietitians according to your body type and needs so that you do not risk your health by consuming less or more of the foods you consume in daily life. In general, after your ideal weight is determined by calculating the body mass index according to gender, age and weight criteria, a diet list is created for you to consume the nutrients you need. Your dietician may request different examinations and tests when deemed necessary. At this point, it is useful to specify the foods that you can never give up eating while meeting with your dietician. While the foods that are indispensable for you are added to your diet list, some foods are removed from the list for a proper and balanced diet and a healthy diet is provided. Contrary to popular belief, dieting is not to starve, but to have a healthy body by eating a continuous and balanced diet with intermediate foods.

You should pay attention to these steps to lose healthy weight:

Diet list is the arrangement of nutrients according to meals, which are specially prepared by a dietician and planned according to the calorie calculation that the person should take.

The diet programme should be constantly updated by the dietician.
Shock diets should definitely be avoided.
No main and intermediate meals in the personalised programme should be skipped.
Exercise programmes applied together with diet help to lose weight faster and healthier.

Diet lists that make someone else lose weight will not weaken you and may cause muscle loss as your body will be deprived of the nutrients it needs. Each diet list should be specially prepared by a professional dietician according to the person's own body characteristics. Thus, you can control your weight in a healthy way. These lists are prepared by taking your body and personal demands into consideration.

Areas of Interest of the Nutrition and Diet Unit:

A wide range of services are provided from childhood to pregnancy, from various diseases to personalised nutrition applications.

1. Healthy Weight Loss

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.

2. Healthy Weight Gain

Failure to gain weight is a risky situation in terms of health and may cause weakening of the muscles, weakening of the bones and damage to the organs. 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.

3. Nutrition Problems During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

The nutrition plan that should be applied at each stage of pregnancy differs and depending on factors such as age, height-weight ratio, which nutrients should be consumed by pregnant women and in what proportion. In this case, nutrition and diet unit is important for women to have a healthy pregnancy process. Pregnant women should follow regular and balanced nutrition rules during breastfeeding after giving birth to their babies. In terms of the fact that breast milk contains sufficient amount of nutritional values for the development of the baby, it is a matter to be considered that the mother applies to the nutrition and diet unit during breastfeeding.

4. Childhood Nutrition Problems

Health problems such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypercholesterolaemia may occur in childhood. Nutrition and diet unit takes part in the prevention and treatment of these diseases in which wrong and irregular nutrition plays a major role. In addition, children should stay away from harmful foods due to the importance of their physical and mental period. In this respect, the nutrition and diet unit provides services in combating childhood nutrition problems and diseases that arise due to these problems.

5. Nutrition Problems of Diabetes Patients

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 proper nutrition. 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.

6. Nutrition Problems in Stomach and Intestinal Diseases

The nutrition and diet unit is involved in the treatment and prevention of chronic or acute intestinal and stomach disorders. People who have stomach problems such as gastritis, ulcer, indigestion and intestinal problems such as diarrhoea, colitis, malabsorption should definitely seek help from a nutrition and diet unit about which foods to consume and which foods should not be consumed.

7. Nutrition Problems of Inpatients

Physicians sometimes work in cooperation with the nutrition and diet unit in order to strengthen the treatment of patients who are hospitalised due to various health problems. In cases deemed appropriate by the doctors, a new nutrition programme 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 programme is regularly applied by the patient.

8. Personalised Nutrition Practices

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 dietician specialist informs the applicants about which foods they should consume according to their body characteristics and a suitable nutrition programme is prepared for them. In addition, the nutrition and diet unit monitors whether the client complies with this programme and how much progress he/she has made in this process.

9. Sports Nutrition

Sport is an activity that requires physical performance. In order to utilise 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 in addition to regular training. Parkhayat Health Group nutrition and diet specialists plan and follow up the nutrition of the athlete according to the sport branch, taking into account the results of body composition measurements, personal characteristics and whether they are in the growth and development period. It determines the nutritional needs of the athletes both during training periods, before and after the competition and arranges the nutrition programme.

10. Allergy - Food Intolerance and Nutrition

Food allergies affect human health starting from infancy. For this reason, 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 foods that individuals remove from their diets due to food allergies do not lead to inadequate and unbalanced nutrition.

11. Nutrition in Eating Behaviour Disorders

The aim of the treatment of eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, etc.) is to bring a different approach to food by changing the impaired eating behaviour and to create a new eating pattern. Parkhayat Health Group dietitians work in a multidisciplinary team in the identification, treatment, monitoring, patient support and rehabilitation of eating disorders.