Jitendar P Vij

EMCA House, 23/23B Ansari Road, Daryaganj

New Delhi 110 002, India

Phones: 23272143, 23272703, 23282021, 23245672, 23245683, Fax: 011-23276490

e-mail: jpmedpub@del2.vsnl.net.in

Visit our website: http://www.jpbros.20m.com

© 2003, TK Indrani

All rights reserved. No part of this publication should be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author and the publisher.

First Edition : 2003

Publishing Director: RK Yadav

Typeset at JPBMP typesetting unit

Printed at Lordson Publishers (P) Ltd., C-5/19, RP Bagh, Delhi 110 007

Diet plays a sine qua non role not only in the maintenance and development of health conditions of individuals but also in the early recovery from the illness to the patients. The purpose of bringing out Nursing Manual of Nutrition and Therapeutic Diet is to help graduate, undergraduate and nursing students in planning the diets of the patients according to their disease conditions. This is a reference book prepared especially to help the students to prepare a concise and elaborate teaching notes according to their needs on the subject of nutrition and therapeutic diet. A cursory look of the book can enable them to plan “menu” for the requirement of individual patient according to the nature of disease. The chapters on Constituents of Food and its Function, Food Requirements, Planning for Nutritional Needs and, Diet and the Patient have been dealt exhaustively keeping in mind the above purpose. In addition, chapters on Diet therapy in various health disorders also serve the same purpose. The discussions on nutritions for geriatric people, industrial workers and obese persons deserve special significance.