Dietary Modifications in Critically-Ill Patients: A Comparison of Persian Medicine and Conventional Medicine Perspectives

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Relationships between food consistency and variables affecting diet modification. (a) The relationship between food consistency and appetite. There is a direct relationship between this variable and food consistency, i.e., the higher the appetite, the greater should be the consistency of food. (b) There is an inverse relationship between food consistency and body mass and body reserves, meaning that the higher the body mass and body reserves, the lower the food consistency should be. (c) There is a direct relationship between food consistency and disease duration; i.e., the more chronic the disease, the thicker the food should be. (d) The relationship between food consistency and disease stages is such that the concentration of food should decrease with progression from the beginning to the peak, and increase from the peak to recovery and health.

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