Nutrition and Diet

In the department where patients who wish to apply for weight loss or loss, the aim is to lead a healthy life and achieve an ideal body. And in some cases, doctors from other departments also refer patients to this department.

About the Branch

Nutrition; It is the use of nutrients for growth, maintenance of life and protection of health. In society, nutrition is generally seen as a concept to be considered in case of a disease. However, studies have shown that improving individual diet and health practices reduces preventable diseases, disabilities and premature deaths. Nutritional deficiency and imbalance are direct causes of some diseases and indirect causes of others. Therefore, as the Nutrition and Diet Department of Grandmedical Hospital, services are provided on nutrition and diet in comprehensive diseases, individual diet programs and nutrition education.

Today, in the prevention of many diseases, during and after the disease, the nutritional status of the patient should be determined and followed with a personalized, adequate and balanced nutrition program.

Inpatient Nutrition and Diet Services

The Diet and Nutrition department works with physicians and nurses in a multi-disciplinary manner after the patient is admitted to the service, and the nutrition program specific to the patient and the disease is planned and implemented by the dietitian. The patient's nutritional status is followed through periodic visits, and the patient and his companion are informed at all dietary stages. If necessary, the necessary diet training is given to the patient in writing and verbally while the patient is discharged.

Protective Nutrition

Childhood nutrition

Did you know that the seeds of many diseases we encounter in adults are planted in childhood? What kind of proper nutrition education do you give your child, how do you set an example for them? Is her nutrition properly directed at school? If you have questions in your mind, you can get counseling from our nutrition and diet department about how you can give nutrition education to your child from the early stages of life.

Puberty Nutrition

Adolescence is one of the periods in which children care most about their physical characteristics. At this age, if they are not guided correctly, they can apply false information for the sake of beauty. However, they are still in the age of growth and development, and wrong nutrition systems can cause irreversible and permanent damage in the future. If you observe such tendencies in your adolescent child, you can get counseling from the dieticians of our hospital.

Pregnancy nutrition

Are you planning to become pregnant? Or have you just found out that you are pregnant? During your pregnancy, you can get counseling from our department about both ensuring the healthy development of the baby, not gaining too much weight, and the nutritional changes you need to make during your lactation period.

Therapeutic Nutrition

Heart diseases

Medical nutrition therapy, which is necessary to control the high cholesterol or blood fats, the cholesterol and fat you take with food, without disturbing the intake balance of other nutrients.

Diabetes (Diabetes) – Gestational Diabetes

Personalized medical nutrition therapy to keep your blood sugar under control, to maintain your ideal weight, and to prevent other diseases that may occur due to diabetes.

Gout

Planned purine-restricted medical nutrition therapy to keep your uric acid level at an optimal level

Urinary Tract and Kidney Stones

Stone formation is usually a recurring condition if necessary precautions are not taken. In order to prevent this, the necessary medical nutrition therapy is planned according to the type of stone you have.

Kidney Disease

Depending on the level of damage to your kidneys, in line with your biochemical results, a medical nutrition therapy specially planned for you

Nutritional Disorder (malnutrition)

It is a condition that may occur due to malnutrition or a disease (cancer, AIDS, bowel diseases, etc.) during infancy or adulthood. Medical nutrition therapy aimed at creating a balance between what the person consumes - the amounts they can consume and their needs

Obesity

Obesity, which is a disease that enters our lives with an increasing rate in the world and in our country, unfortunately puts us in trouble not only physically but also metabolically by inviting many chronic diseases. Obesity is a multifactorial disease in which weight for height exceeds the desired level as a result of excessive increase in the ratio of body fat mass to lean mass due to the chronic imbalance between the amount of energy taken with food and energy expenditure. Obesity is a disease that must be treated. Today, the increase in the prevalence of obesity in Turkey and in many countries of the world has reached alarming proportions. In Turkey, the increase in the rate of obesity in adults in the last 10 years is 19% in men and 27% in women for mild obesity; For obesity, it reached 3% in men and 30% in women.

Total obesity rate in Turkey is around 26%. Such a widespread and increasing disease directly or indirectly affects most of the systems in our body negatively. Along with obesity, the risk of developing diseases such as heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, gall bladder diseases, some types of cancer, bone-joint disorders, respiratory disorders, menstrual irregularities and infertility increases.

Causes of Obesity

• hereditary factors
• Imbalances in energy intake and expenditure
• lack of physical activity
• hormonal factors
• psychological problems

Detection of Obesity

Many methods are used in the diagnosis of obesity. Among these, the most practical and frequently used method is the formula we call Body Mass Index (BMI). According to this formula, to get an idea of ​​your body weight, it is sufficient to divide your weight (kg) by your height in meters squared (m²) and look at which part you enter on the scale below.

BMI Weight (kg) / Height (m²)

BMI VALUES;

Less than 18.9 kg/m2 - WEAK

Between 19-24.9 kg/m2 - NORMAL

Between 25-29.9 kg/m2 - BULK (LIGHTWEIGHT)

Between 30-34.9 kg/m2 - FAT (OBESE) (RISKY FOR HEALTH!)

Those over 35 - OVERFAT (HIGH RISK FOR HEALTH)

Most of us have those little scales at home that make strange noises that we weigh ourselves from time to time. The more sensitive we are about our weight, the more often we climb on those scales. Every time we exit that plastic, which looks like a single line in the middle of the scale, many numbers pass and each passing number shows us the weights we are not. This last number is my weight when I got married, this last weight before my first birth, this last before I bought the car, this last before I enlisted in the military, and that white plastic line stops somewhere. If this number is high enough to make us feel the need to be weighed alone, the following sentences begin to be formed.

• I see that I eat as much as anyone else, they are weak; but what i eat is good
• I try to eat less; but then suddenly I can't stand it and attack the food, I can't help myself,
• I don't really eat much, I don't look for food in the morning and at lunch; I even forget, but I get out of control at night,
• I'm in front of the fridge when I have a full stomach,
• I eat a lot when I'm angry.

For us, obesity is the victory of the side we cannot control. We blame ourselves profusely and feel incompetent, inadequate, and powerless in the face of food. Obesity is becoming more and more common in our society. Changes shaped by city culture in our social life are very important here. Weight loss diet treatments have also become a very popular topic with this increasing speed. With this popularity, it is observed that many unscientific false information misleads our society.