Nutrition and Diet

Human beings’ need for nutrition in order to maintain their existence is a natural law. A long and healthy life is everybody’s dream, and we need a healthy body for this. Thus, the healthy nutrition has been very important in every stage of life. The children and young people who have been healthily nourished grow, develop, and learn better. Good nutrition also helps a healthy pregnancy and breastfeeding. The healthy diet and an active life are significant in terms of the persons’ feeling good and their enhancement of life quality. Every individual has the right of being healthy without giving up the flavor and secure nourishment opportunities.

When Do You Need for Feeding Suggestions and Diet Therapy?

• During the pregnancy or pre-pregnancy
• If you breast feed your baby
• If you prepare food for children and young people
• If you have a chronic disease which you have to live with
• If you are interested in sport and any physical activity
• If you try to lose weight, gain weight or conserve your present weight
• If you accompany with an old person of your family
• If you want to change your life style and feeding way in order to keep in form and be healthy?

In our polyclinic, which has been founded with the aim of the treatment of the obesity disease rapidly spreading in our country and all over the world in recent years, the treatment has been applied under the control of the doctor and dietician. The patients, who have been examined as required by the doctor, begin a diet therapy by the dietician if there is no problem. Absolutely private diet programmes have been applied so that the patient can come to the weight targeted by carrying out the required measurements of the patients; and regular controls have been successfully provided. To keep weight that has been reached is also as significant as to lose weight; thus, a consultancy service for the essential nutrition has been given to our patients.

Moreover, more effective results have been obtained by using the latest technology which measures the oil rate (%), the oil quantity (kg), skim mass (kg) and the whole body fluid, and the structured weighing devices.

Absolutely private diet therapy has been applied to our patients who have been diagnosed as diabetes newly or in advance, by realizing the required measurements under the dietician in our polyclinic. The diet therapy in diabetes is a medical process of treatment.

The primary purpose of the diet therapy is to raise the life quality of the patient, and to minimize the risk of the emergence of other diseases which diabetes causes. Furthermore, the nutrition and diet services of our polyclinic is responsible for the services like helping the patient reach his/her ideal weight or keep in the ideal weight, the presentation of the necessary feeding education to the patient in order to maintain his/her own diet in the forthcoming periods.

The nutrition during the pregnancy is more important than other periods. In this period, the feeding source of the infant is the mother. Thus, the feeding needs of the mother increase and the meeting of this increasing need is very significant in terms of the growth and development of the baby. An education of a suitable diet programme is given to the mother, who is examined by the doctor according to her blood symptoms, gestational week, and other symptoms in the nutrition and diet department which is serving with this aim in our polyclinic. Furthermore, the feeding educations during the pregnancy have been collectively given by the dietician in order to enable the mother to learn how she should be nourished during the pregnancy and to avoid some misapplications (eating excessively, and excessive consumption of dessert during the pregnancy in order to make the baby healthy).