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ADIME FORMAT Nutrition Care Process - defined as the process of planning and meeting
the nutritional needs of a patient
Medical Nutrition Therapy - refers to the use of specific nutrition services to treat an illness,
injury or condition. It consists of two phases: nutrition assessment and nutrition therapy.
Nutrition therapy - refers to interventions used in the treatment of a disorder or illness and
includes diet therapy, nutrition counselling and/or the use of specialized nutrition therapies
such as supplementation with nutritional or medical foods and nutritional support through
enteral or parenteral methods.
Health - is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease and infernity.
Illness - is a deviation of bodily functions form the normal or usual well-being and its
perception is both physiological and psychological.
Dietetics - is the combined science and art of regulating the planning, preparing and serving
of meals to individuals or groups under various conditions of health and disease according to
the principles of nutrition and management with due consideration for economic, social,
cultural and psychological factors.
Diet therapy - is the branch of dietetics that is concerned with the use of food for therapeutic
purposes
Dietitian - is the translation of nutritional principles for any individual or group in health or in
illness. She is a professional trained to be a nutrition expert. The current preferred title is
medical nutrition therapist.
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