Therapeutic Diets #1
Allows clear liquids, custard, pudding, and ice cream and is used after surgery and before some X-Rays.
Full Liquid Diet
Similar to regular diet, but foods must require little chewing and be easy to digest.
Soft Diet
Regulates calcium and phosphorus absorption and metabolism.
Vitamin D
Regular heart rhythm, fluid balance, and nerve function
Potassium
Formation of hormones in the thyroid
Iodine
Limits foods such as smoked meats or fish, processed foods, olives, and sauerkraut and is used for hypertension, edema, and kidney disease.
Sodium Restricted Diet
Includes foods like meats, fish, milk, eggs, cheese. May be a diet high in these foods for children and adolescents for growth delay or may be low in these foods for patients with kidney disease or allergic conditions.
Protein Diet
Aids in wound healing and absorption of iron
Vitamin C
Formation of hydrochloric acid
Health of the mouth tissue and the eyes
Riboflavin
Limits food such as raw fruits and vegetables, whole grain breads and cereals, nuts, and beans. It is used for digestive diseases such as colitis and diarrhea.
Low fiber Diet
Consists of easily digested foods that do not irritate the digestive tract. Food to avoid include course foods, fried foods, highly seasoned, alcohol, raw fruits and vegetables, smoked or salted meats or fish, coffee, nuts.
Bland Diet
Protection of cell structure, especially red blood cells and epithelial cells
Vitamin E
Clotting of blood and development and maintenance of bones and teeth
Calicum
Cushions bones and organs
Functions of Fats
Requires patients to calculate the amount of carbohydrates in each meal; suggests avoiding candy, syrup, jams, jellies and sugar heavy foods.
Diabetic Diet
Restricts foods that contain cholesterol and usually limits fats to less than 50gm daily. Used for patients atherosclerosis and heart disease.
Normal clotting of the blood and formation of prothrombin
Vitamin K
Formation of hemoglobin in red blood cells
Iron
Builds and repairs tissues and regulated body functions
Functions of proteins
High Fiber Diet
A balanced diet usually used for the patient with no dietary restrictions.
Regular diet
Health of the eyes and growth and development
Vitamin A
Absorption of glucose and maintenance of acid base balance
Sodium
Name of the process by which the body breaks down food into smaller parts, changes the food chemically and moves the food through the digestive system
Digestion