Nutrition for health
- How to compose a healthy diet?
- How to strengthen immunity?
- How to strengthen bones?
- How to strengthen hair and nails?
- What food prevents and what food may contribute to various diseases?
- What to eat and what to avoid?
Nutrition in diseases
Dietary treatment includes:
- Overweight and obesity
- Arterial hypertension
- Elevated cholesterol level
- Reflux disease
- Gastric and duodenal ulcers
- Hepatic diseases
- Gallstones, gallbladder and biliary diseases
- Pancreatic diseases
- Bowel diseases
- Kidney and urinary tract diseases
- Food allergy or intolerance
- Celiac disease
- Thyroid diseases
- Deficiencies of vitamins / minerals
- Nutrition of women before pregnancy;
- Nutrition of pregnant women;
- Nutrition of breastfeeding women;
- Nutrition of children;
- Nutrition in the elderly;
- Nutrition in a vegetarian diet.
PREPARING FOR THE NUTRITIONIST‘S CONSULTATION
During visits to a nutritionist a detailed body composition analysis is performed.
Each professional diagnostic requires the fulfilment of the following conditions:
- Appear on an empty stomach (in the morning) or 2-3 hours after ingestion of the last meal (you can drink the water)
- Avoid alcohol 24 hours before the examination
- Avoid caffeine 12 hours before the examination
- Avoid heavy physical exertion 12 hours before the measurement
Body composition analysis should not be performed in the following cases:
- In patients with implanted metallic materials, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, stent and metal sutures in the heart or in a blood vessel;
- In pregnant women;
- In patients with epilepsy.
It is worth bringing current medical test results (it is possible to determine the necessary tests during the visit).
Blood - the test should be made on an empty stomach:
- morphology + blood smear,
- lipidogram: total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides
- hepatic enzymes (AST, ALT, GGTP),
- electrolytes (Mg, Ca, Na, K),
- TSH, FT3, FT4
- uric acid,
Urine - general test.