WHAT DOES A DIETITIAN LOOK AT?
Ekotom Surgical Medical Center Nutrition and Diet Department provides quality and safe nutrition and diet services in accordance with your individual characteristics in order to ensure the continuation of health, support the healing process of the disease, and raise awareness of healthy nutrition in the society. Our dietitians follow the latest innovations in nutrition and accordingly provide our patients with the most appropriate nutrition. It raises awareness.
Childhood Nutrition
Healthy, adequate and balanced nutrition is very important for children, especially for children, as it is for all ages. Due to rapid growth and development, preschool children's need for many nutrients is higher than other periods of life, and the nutritional habits acquired during this period last a lifetime. Children, who form the core and are in a continuous growth and development process, are one of the groups most affected by nutritional deficiencies, and wrong nutritional habits acquired during childhood constitute the main risk factor for diseases such as heart diseases, high blood pressure and obesity.
In addition to healthy nutrition, children adopting a more active lifestyle, increasing their physical activity levels and being supported in this regard will make significant contributions to children's social, mental and physical development.
For children to have a healthy diet, they need to consume adequate and balanced amounts of the four main food groups. The four main food groups are; Milk, meat, vegetables and fruits are called grains. Milk, yoghurt, cheese from the dairy group, meat, chicken, fish, eggs from the meat group (included in the meat group), dried legumes, vegetables and fruits in appropriate amounts according to the season and from the grain group. bread, bulgur, pasta, rice etc. Care should be taken to consume sufficient amounts of food at each meal.
Adolescent Nutrition
Adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood with rapid physical, biochemical, spiritual and social growth, development and maturation processes. Adolescence includes the age group of 12-18. It is generally accepted that adolescence begins between the ages of 10-12 for girls and between the ages of 11-14 for boys.
Growth is rapid during adolescence. Rapid growth and development increases the need for energy and nutrients. Adequate and balanced nutrition of adolescents is even more important as growth and development accelerate. Nutrition is evaluated by determining the height and body weight of the young person according to his age.
Pregnancy Nutrition
The purpose of a pregnant woman's nutrition is to meet the mother's own physiological needs, balance the nutritional reserves in her body, and ensure the normal growth of the fetus.
In our country, "inadequate and unbalanced nutrition before pregnancy and during pregnancy" has an important place in maternal and infant deaths. Approximately 1 million 400 thousand births occur in our country every year. Inadequate and unbalanced nutrition before pregnancy and during pregnancy causes many maternal and infant deaths. It brings with it health problems. There is a close relationship between the diet before and during pregnancy and the baby's birth weight, brain development and health. Due to nutritional disorders in our country, 58% of pregnant women suffer from iron deficiency anemia (anemia), which is necessary for the production of blood cells. Deficiencies of folic acid, iodine, which is effective in physical and mental development, and calcium, which plays a role in bone development, are observed.
Sports Health Nutrition
While healthy nutrition provides athletes with increased performance, high level concentration and motivation, an inadequate and unbalanced diet can cause health problems and poor performance. The effectiveness of the training in the athlete with a healthy diet reaches maximum and the athlete feels fit. An adequate and balanced diet, It minimizes the risk of illness and injury and shortens the recovery time after a race or injury.
Cardiovascular Diseases
Heart diseases; It describes the condition related to the heart and blood vessels. Heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure (hypertension), angina (chest pain), blood circulation disorder and abnormal heartbeats are the main heart diseases.
Genetic predisposition is an important cause of heart diseases. But for many people, other risk factors play an important role. Important risk factors in the development of coronary heart disease are summarized below.
RISK FACTORS
.Age (≥45 in men, ≥55 in women)
.Family history of heart disease (a history of coronary artery disease in a first-degree relative before the age of 55 in men and before the age of 65 in women)
.Smoking
.High blood pressure (Hypertension/blood pressure over 140/90 mmHg)
.Hypercholesterolemia (total cholesterol over 200 mg/dl, LDL-Cholesterol over 130 mg/dl)
.Low HDL-cholesterol value (<40 mg/dl)
.diabetes mellitus
.Obesity
.Inability to cope with stress
.Excessive alcohol consumption
.Low physical activity
.Birth control pill use (if smoking)
.Menopause, especially early menopause
Cardiovascular disease is among the leading causes of death in adults in our country, as well as all over the world. Elimination of risk factors should be the basic approach in protecting and preventing cardiovascular diseases.
Healthy Weight Loss
The weight problem that everyone complains about invites many diseases. The problem of overweight, which occurs at all ages, can be solved in line with the diet plan implemented by a nutrition and dietetics specialist, and people's standard of living increases in this way.
Healthy Weight Gain
Just as it is important to lose weight and stay slim, it is also important not to gain weight. It is a risky situation for health and can cause a person's muscles to weaken, bones to weaken and organs to be damaged. Therefore, it is important for people who have problems with not gaining weight to consult the nutrition and diet unit in health institutions in order to maintain muscle-bone density balance and ensure that blood values ??return to normal.
Nutrition of Inpatients
Some physicians cooperate with the nutrition and diet unit to help patients who are hospitalized for various reasons gain strength, and with the right guidance, they make the foods they eat healthy. In cases deemed appropriate by the doctors, a new nutrition program is prepared by the nutrition and dietitian specialist according to the general health status of the patient. Checking the patient's condition and seeing whether the program is followed is of great importance for the patient's health.
