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Lt Col Yamuna CB
Army & Delhi University, India
Abstract
“The Health Practioner of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs but rather will treat cure and prevent disease with nutrition.“- Thomas Edison Nutrition is equally important when patients are recovering from illness. Good nutrition can support and improve recovery by providing body with the essential nutrients it needs to repair and maintain its key functions, during and after periods of being unwell. Malnutrition is associated to poor outcomes in critically ill patients. Oral nutrition is the route of feeding in less than half of the patients during the intensive care unit (ICU) stay and in the majority of ICU survivors. There are growing data indicating that insufficient and/or inadequate intakes in macronutrients and micronutrients are prevalent within these populations.