Dietetics and Nutrition

Nutrition plays an important role in integrative medicine and has spawned a relatively new field that blends the use of food and supplements to promote optimal health and help treat disease. Sometimes called holistic nutrition for this discipline is becoming more popular as it focuses on how diet and supplements may contribute to the wellness objective of healing body, mind and spirit.

We all know that a healthy diet is the basis for a well functioning body. Food is the source of energy for all our bodily function and directly affects how our bodies and mind function in all stages of life. It keeps your heart beating, your brain active and muscles working. Besides many studies proved that good nutrition boost IQ as early as the first three years of life where brain’s growth is at its fastest rate and is linked to later mental ability.

On the other hand, poor diet leads to health problems ranging from tiredness and lack of energy to serious problems with the functions of vital organs and lack of growth and development. It also has a direct link with chronic lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, obesity, blood pressure etc.

Dietetics at Shija:

• Provision of adequate nutrition makes a major contribution towards improvement of clinical, biochemical, cellular, and psychological status of the patient in the face of the disease process and the side effects of various treatments.
• Dietetics is about good eating practices which acts as a preventive and curative means and aids in a healthier life.
• Patients in Shija Hospitals are met and assessed for nutritional status by the dietician on a daily basis.
• Our dietician ensures that foods served in hospital are safe and healthy.