Illness affecting
Acceptance
towards food
. Positive food-related attitudes have
been linked to better diets, as indexed
by higher values of the Healthy Eating
Index and by higher consumption of
vegetables and fruit. Positive food
attitude can reduce or eliminate the
chance of troubling health
consequences such as high cholesterol
and high blood pressure, type 2
diabetes, and sleep apnea, as well as
psychosocial consequences such as
social discrimination and low self-
esteem.
our attitude
As nurses it is our primary goal to help
them create a system in order to
consume food that would help them
build a stronger sense of acceptance to
food that makes them healthier. It is our
job and responsibility to teach them on
what is too much, too less and the right
amount of nutrition that they should
consume.
Role of
nurses
Due to different types of illnesses, mainly
physiological or psychological, our body
becomes deprived of our nutrition.
Physiological complications tend to give
us a sense of craving for specific food at
a specific amount, thus creating a diet
that gives us a more unhealthy balance
of nutritional intake. Some psychological
complications gives us desire to relatively
lose our appetite because of bodily
insecurities, and some tend to cope up
with consuming larger quantities of food.