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1.Describe the therapeutic diet you ate while completing this assignment. This includes the disease and the how nutrition affects the pathophysiology. Did your eating behaviors and food choices vary from what you normally eat? Explain your answer.
2.Were there any parts to the therapeutic diet that were particularly challenging to follow? Were there any parts of your therapeutic diet that were easy to follow? Explain your answer.
3.Picture yourself having to live with the disease that was assigned to you on a daily basis. How would you feel? Do you think that managing your diet would be difficult or challenging, or do you think it would be easy to follow forever? Describe personal sources of support or other factors that would help you maintain your diet. What factors might be detrimental or would prevent your ability to follow this diet long term? What other personal reflections do you have about this experience? (For example, was it positive or negative? What insights do you have about people who have to follow this diet that you didn’t have before you completed this assignment?)
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Running head: THERAPEUTIC DIET
Therapeutic Diet for Diabetes
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THERAPEUTIC DIET
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Diabetes is a condition which occurs in the body of a person when blood sugar level goes
high. Since blood glucose is the main source of energy in the body, it is the role of the insulin to
convert glucose in the food into energy for use by the body. However, at times the body fails to
make any insulin or makes few resulting to poor or no conversion of glucose into energy which
leads to glucose staying in the blood and fails to reach the cells. This eventually causes diabetes.
This paper, therefore, seeks to explore a therapeutic diet for diabetes condition.
Having a diabetes condition forces one to change their eating habits to accommodate the
therapeutic diet fo...
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