Diet and Nutritional Therapy

Diet therapy is a branch of dietetics that deals with the therapeutic therapeutic purpose and for nutrition. When you start this therapy, you can eat only those foods prescribed by the doctor/ dietician. It helps to improve your dietary lifestyle and to gain optimum health. This treatment is used not just for reducing excess fat from your body, but also our diet therapy plays an important role in curing many types of crucial diseases like obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The principles of diet therapy include:

• Variety of foods
• Balance of food
• Controlling calories in foods intake
• Moderation in food
• Adequacy of food

The food label is also another tool that helps to compare foods easily. Food label shows the fat, total fat, calories, trans fat, cholesterol, carbohydrates, sugar, vitamins, calcium, iron and sodium of a food product. You can go through these labels and purchase the foods according to your dietary plan.