Supplementary Nutrition for Us and Recovered Patients

Nutrition is the fundamental if health and food is the source of nutrition. Our bodies have to absorb a balanced nutrition in order to stay healthy. People who have food preference and lifestyle that unable to allow them to carry out a balanced nutrition could actually use supplementary nutrition to achieve the objective.

The foods turn into ingredients or elements after going through our body’s digestion system; we called the elements as “nutrients”. The typical nutrients include protein, carbohydrate, fat, minerals, vitamins and etc.

Every different kind food provides us with different kind of nutrient. We should make it a habit to have variety food in order for us to have a balanced nutrient. Generally, we can follow the Food Pyramid as a standard of our daily nutrition indicator. The lowest layer in the food pyramid are our basic foods, for example, bread, noodle, oat, and etc. We could try to cut down the intake portion as we go further up in the Food Pyramid, for example red meat, desserts that contain high sugar, etc. A lot of people are aware of the food pyramid, however many are not following it as the food indicator. This is due to people tend to have preference when it comes to food and many are found fond of food that are at the top level of the food pyramid. For example, we all know that vegetables are very important, but many will still take meat and high fat food and a minimum of vegetables on our daily diet.

Regardless if we are normal, infirm, or obese; the food pyramid is always the standard nutrition indicator. For patients who are before and after surgery and special case people, they might need to seek advice from the doctor and go through testing such as blood, weight, height, and BMI testing and etc to understand the body situation before taking any nutritional supplements.

It is very important for patients after surgery to have nutrition supplementary. If the patients do not have sufficient nutrients, the wound healing process will be slow. With the balanced nutrition, the body recovery process with be much faster.

Guides in Choosing Nutrition Product:

There are a variety of supplementary nutrition products in the market.  How do we actually choose the nutrition products? Normally, you could seek advice from doctors or pharmacists, or nutritionists.

Below are some points that you should look out when buying a nutrition product:

1. The products which have “Complete Nutrition” stated.

2. The product is produced by company that is well-known and have years of experience background.

3. The product that suits the patient appetite. Family members or care takers can easily mix the product in the food recipe for patient easy consume.

4. Types of nutrition product:

    a. Complete Nutrition

    b. Products mainly for cancer, diabetes, lactose intolerance, nephropathy,

    c. Supplement for iron, calcium