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Nutrition and dietetics aims to maintain nutritional status and prevent chronic diseases through a balanced and healthy diet that meets the energy and nutritional needs for the proper functioning of the body, adapted to each stage of a person's life.
¿Cuándo consultar?
¿Cuándo consultar?
- When an emphasis on nutritional needs is required in people with medical or surgical conditions or chronic pathologies that may generate nutritional risk such as diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney failure, cancer, HIV, COPD, heart disease, stroke, celiac disease, syndrome metabolism, obesity, arthritis, among others.
- When initiating changes in eating habits with the aim of reducing or gaining weight.
- When timely advice on feeding is required in important periods such as pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- Advice on nutrition at different stages of life: children, adolescents and the elderly, healthy or sick.
¿Por qué elegirnos?
Why choose us?
- At Hospital Serena del Mar we have a team of nutrition and dietetics professionals who offer person-centered care for patients, families, and caregivers.
- Our care model is aimed at identifying nutritional risk in the first 24 hours of admission of hospitalized, adult and pediatric patients.
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Nutrition at the Hospital Serena del Mar
Our subspecialties and medical team
Nutrition and dietetics aims to maintain nutritional status and prevent chronic diseases through a balanced and healthy diet that meets the energy and nutritional needs for the proper functioning of the body, adapted to each stage of a person's life.
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