Diet therapy, or colloquial expresion –diet , refers not only to the food consumption plan with the ultimate goal of reduction of body weight , or gain of weight, but is primarily therapy in treatment of different illnesses. For this reason in the last few decades new name was introduced- Medical Nutriton Therapy ( MNT ).

Correctly prescribed diet therapy can be helpful in healing, in easing the symptoms of particular disease, preventing or slowing down the progression of the illness, and in some illnesses diet therapy has a crucial role in overall therapy.

The process of designing one diet consists of several stages. First one is taking medical and nutritional anamnesis from the patient continues with acknowledging patients diagnosis and therapies and taking family medical history. Next stage would be conducting socio-epidemiological questionnaire that includes patient`s habits, living conditions, dietary conditions and dietary habits, daily hygiene, physical activity, potential consumption of psychoactive substances, smoking etc. Next stage would be, if it`s necessary to design full weekly diet plan, to conduct nutritional questionnaire , where patient himself writes all details about the food and drinks he has consumed within 1 or 3 consecutive days, with timing of the food and drink consumption, and all potential accompanying medical symptomatology.

The last stage is questionnaire where patients describes all the food that he prefers to eat, or that he doesn`t like to eat. After all of this data are collected, proper diet therapy with weekly or daily food plan can be designed. Diet therapy that is designed in this manner shouldn`t be changed frequently, but only adjusted considering new conditions of the illness. Off course, this is not the case if we are dealing with acute medical conditions or acute illnesses.

We are going to mention some of diet therapies in offer, but as it is clearly stated and explained above, every medical nutrition therapy with food plan is individual, and comprises several diet therapies for different health concerns and pathological conditions, taking under consideration all the factors mentioned above (dietary habits, availability of the certain food, medication therapy, biochemical analysis results, hematology test results etc.):