A therapeutic diet is a meal plan that controls the intake of certain foods or nutrients. It is usually a modification of regular diet used to improve specific health condition like Diabetes, Obesity, Hypocholesteremia etc.
It is modified or tailored to fit the nutrition needs of a particular person. Common reasons therapeutic diets may be followed:
• To maintain nutritional status
• To restore nutritional status
• To correct nutritional status
• To decrease calories for weight control
• To provide extra calories for weight gain
• To balance amounts of carbohydrates, fat and protein for control of diabetes
• To provide a greater amount of a nutrient such as protein
• To decrease the amount of a nutrient such as sodium
• To exclude foods due to allergies or food intolerance
• To provide texture modifications due to problems with chewing and/or swallowing.
We prepare Therapeutic Diet which helps in treating lifestyle disorder and gives sustainable results. With the help of therapeutic changes in the diet we expertise in treating Hypocholesteremia, Diabetes and obesity .
1,TREATMENT OF HYPOCHOLESTEREMIA THROUGH "THERAPEUTIC DIETOFY PROGRAM":
Therapeutic Dietofy Program (TDP) helps you in lowering cholesterol levels. The Program includes lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, weight loss, and avoid/minimize smoking. Your doctor will want you to follow TDP even if you are taking cholesterol-lowering medicine. And medicine will work better if you have healthy diet.
"Dietofy Programs are usually the first step in lowering cholesterol before medicines are added. If the patients are on medication, we emphasize on reducing medicines over a period of time to make you feel heathy and energetic".
The diet's main focus is to reduce the amount of simple carbohydrates, saturated fat you eat, because saturated fat elevates your cholesterol levels. You can reduce the saturated fat in your diet by limiting the amount of meat and whole milk products you eat. Choose low-fat products from those food groups instead. Include essential fatty acids in your diet, replace most of the animal fat in your diet with unsaturated fat, especially monounsaturated oils, such as olive, canola, or peanut oil and poly unsaturated oils like mustard oil etc. If monounsaturated fat and poly unsaturated fat is substituted for saturated fat, it lowers LDL("bad") cholesterol and keeps HDL ("good") cholesterol up. Diet and physical activity are clinically important in the management of the ABCs (A1C, Blood pressure and Cholesterol) of Diabetes.
2, Treatment of Diabetes through "Therapeutic Dietofy Program"
Therapeutic Dietofy Program (TDP) is simply a lifestyle modification program that helps you in treating your Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. A diabetic diet consists of eating a variety of nutritious foods in moderate amounts and sticking to regular mealtimes. TDP can help you control your blood sugar (glucose) level and manage your weight. For most people with type 2 diabetes, weight loss also can make it easier to control blood glucose and offers a host of other health benefits. If you need to lose weight, TDP provides a well-organized, nutritious way to reach your goal safely. Our team makes healthy food choices and tracking your eating habits can help you manage your blood glucose level and keep it within a safe range. Our team of can help you put together a diet based on your health goals, tastes and lifestyle and can provide valuable information on how to change your eating habits.Dietofy team have different approaches to creating a diabetes diet that keeps your blood glucose level within a normal range.
"Dietofy program includes detailed analysis of one's long term and short term dietary habits, a general Nutritional assessment and advices with tailored made diet which are easy to follow. The program is very convenient, runs totally online without any hassle of continuous clinic visit. Counting carbohydrates .
As carbohydrates break down into glucose, they have the greatest impact on your blood glucose level. It's important to make sure your timing, complex carbohydrate portion size is same each day, especially if you take diabetes medications or insulin. Otherwise, your blood glucose level may fluctuate more. Dietofy team will guide you how to measure food portions and become an educated reader of food labels, paying special attention to serving size and carbohydrate content. If you're taking insulin, Our Dietitian will guide you how to count the amount of carbohydrates in each meal or snack and adjust your insulin dose accordingly. Further helping you, to take you out from insulin.
Treatment of Obesity through "Therapeutic Dietofy Program
Therapeutic Dietofy Program (TDP) is simply a lifestyle modification program that helps you in treating Obesity. Before discussing the remedies/ diet plans, let us understand the Obesity more closely. Obesity is an excessive and abnormal accumulation of fat cells in the body. A chronic disorder by Nature, Obesity is increasingly becoming a global health issue that has reached epidemic proportions in India and other developed countries. Besides being a threat to the economy it has multiple serious long term consequences such as Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases etc. The good news is that timely treatment and proper diet management can treat obesity and help obese people to get back in to their normal ideal body weight and also prevents from lifestyle diseases in future. The optimal management of overweight and obesity requires a combination of therapeutic modified well calculated diet, little bit homely exercise, and lifestyle modification.
Here are some general dietary guidelines which needs to be followed on a regular basis:
• Include plenty of colorful vegetables and fruits in your diet as these are the good source of antioxidants
• Have whole grain cereals and pulses like Muesli, quiona dalia, barley, multi grain flour, dals etc.
• Include one to two servings of excellent source of protein rich food like lean meat & poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, paneer, yoghurt
• Choose healthy snacking, like handful of nuts as these are the good sources of essential fatty acids
• Drink plenty of water
• Limit the intake of foods containing saturated fats, sugars and alcohol
Now a day we have seen people moving towards FAD diets for weight loss to attain quick results but it is highly recommended to avoid such kind of FAD diets as these are not sustainable, can make you feel ill, and might cause unpleasant long term and short term side effects. As we are aware the lower body metabolism and poor insulin sensitivity occurs due to unbalanced diet and Lack of nutrients which leads to metabolic disturbance, obesity and other fatal diseases like diabetes.
Since Past 9 + years, we have been conducting specialized Dietofy weight loss, sports nutrition and other therapeutic programs which is based on a unique method of improving body metabolism, stamina and insulin sensitivity. Every individual body is different so before recommending any diet plans, initially we try to identify the root cause of weight gain or any other medical issues by doing various assessments and discussion, then will analyze your food record and ask you series of general health questions including anthropometrics (Height, Weight & Waist line). Then we provide dietary recommendation, tips, resources and even recipes based on your specific needs. Further we work with you, to plan your diet as per your BMR (Basel Metabolic Rate) and other nutritional requirement to help you overcome the barrier.
