Therapeutic Diets

A therapeutic diet is a meal plan that controls the intake of certain foods or nutrients as part of the treatment for a medical condition

• true

• false

What is the meaning of the word 'Therapeutic'?

• Healing of disease

• Foods and drinks you consume regularly

• A type of disease making it difficult to eat

• A type of doctor

Which of the following can benefit from a therapeutic diet?

• Someone with diabetes

• Someone who is obese

• Someone who has cardiovascular disease

• All of the above

Which of the following is not a reason why therapeutic diets are needed?

• To help with digestion

• To increase a certain nutrient

• To provide extra calories for weight gain

• To increase certain foods that affect medication

which of the following is not an example of a Nutrient modification diet

• Low fat diet and/or low cholesterol diet.

• High fiber diet

• Protein diet

• Pureediet

Which type of therapeutic diet is used when preparing puree diet?

• Nutrient modification

• Texture modification

• Food allergy or food intolerance modification

• Additional feeding

Which type of therapeutic diet Reduces the calorie intake for people who are overweight?

• Nutrient modification

• low calorie diet

• Food allergy or food intolerance modification

• tube feeding

what type of therapeutic diet do you see in this picture?

• nutrient modification

• texture modification

• tube feeding

A low salt diet is which type of therapeutic diet?

• Nutrient modification

• Texture modification

• Food allergy or food intolerance modification

• Additional feeding

Abu Khalid suffers from diabetes, which food he must reduce or cut down in his diet.

• tea

• soft drink

• salty food

• rice