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 foods you must eliminate in a low purine diet.

  • What are:
  • Alcoholic beverages (all types)
  • Fried foods
  • Some fish, seafood and shellfish, including anchovies, sardines, herring, mussels, codfish, scallops, trout and haddock.
  • Some meats, such as bacon, turkey, veal, venison and organ meats like liver.
  • Cold cuts
100

The main function of protein

What is:  Serves in building new tissues.

100

Essential for vitamin A D E and K absorption

What are lipids or fat?

100

Half of your daily food intake should be bases on these.

What are fruits and vegetables?

100

Prevent constipation by doing the following

What is:

Increase fiber in the diet (30-50 gm /day)

Hydrate more often

Exercise more

200

The reason someone would be on a low Purine diet.

What is gout?

200

The number of calories per gram of lipids

What is 9

200

Promotes healthy gum formation and is an antioxidant

What is Vitamin C

200

The drink of choice

What is water?

200

3 interventions to lose weight effectively

What is:

Move more

Avoid concentrated sugars

Avoid processed foods

Follow the Canada Food Guide

300

The progressive diet described.

UPP water, clear liquids. If tolerates, increase to semi-liquid diet. If tolerates, increase to light diet. if tolerates, increase to full diet


300

The foods containing abundant sources of carbohydrates

Vegetables, fruits, whole grains

300

Is used to produce hemoglobin and transports oxygen to the tissues.

What is Iron?

300

The 6 protein foods

What are meat, milk products, nuts, eggs, legumes, and seeds 

300

Foods that help prevent osteoporosis

What are:

Milk products

Almonds

Green, leafy vegetables

Sardines

Soy

400

4 sources of high salt content in a diet.

 What are:

Ham,cold-cuts,bacon

 commercial bouillon

canned vegetables (Unless salt-free)



400

A fiber that dissolves and forms a gel in the digestive tract, and lowers cholesterol.

What is Soluble fiber?

400

Contributes to the development and maintenance of bones and teeth.

What is calcium?

400

4 whole grain examples

What are:

Pasta, rice, bread, cereal, quinoa, couscous

400

Dysphagia: the nursing approach

What is:

Ensure proper sitting positioning

Raise head of bed

Verify tray for puree diet

Offer assistance

Monitor for coughing and choking

500

 4 sources of concentrated sugar in the diet

What are:

Sugary snacks like cookies, candy

Corn syrup

Fructose

Honey, molasses

500

 6 foods that will ↑ fiber in the diet

What are any of the following:

Legumes

Fruits

Vegetables

Whole grains

500

Needed to build T3 and T4, and increases basal metabolism.

What is Iodine?

500

Food labels can help you to

What is:

  • compare and choose products more easily
  • know what ingredients a food product contains
  • choose products with a little or a lot of the nutrients that are of interest to you
500

Patient is not able to use one side for eating

What is:

•Place utensils and food on unaffected side

•Provide adapted utensils

•Offer assistance when required