Chapter 3: Diet Therapy in Few Common Diseases

Unit I: Dietetics and Diet Planning. Contact Hours: 25. Topics: Dietetics and diet-therapy concepts and objectives; modification of normal diet to therapeutic diet; elementary diet concepts for metabolic and lifestyle disorders including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, coronary heart disease, angina, myocardial infarction, ischemia, atherosclerosis, gout, febrile conditions including typhoid and tuberculosis, and cancer; diet for gastric disorders including peptic ulcer, diarrhea, constipation, celiac disease and IBS; diet for renal disorders including acute and chronic nephritis and renal stone; diet for liver and gall-bladder diseases including jaundice, viral hepatitis, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis.