More than 100 years ago in 1905, Dr. Thompson wrote his book on Practical Dietetics with Special Reference to Diet in Diseases. Most probably your hospital or doctor does not know this, so it is best you take care of the diet part yourself. Most hospitals have crappy food because food is NOT the medicine of hospitals… it is drugs and surgery and radiation… most of the time.
This book is a keeper written by an altruistic doctor of medicine in 1905 free of the corrupted knowledge we know today that makes people ill instead of well.
Nowadays I just do a blanked Raw Paleo Diet and that should take care of that illness, but it is interesting to know the finer points based on the food and knowledge available to the altruistic Dr. Thompson during his time in his location.
Excerpt from the Preface:
” It is rarely feasible to feed the sick upon any system of accurate food weighing, laboratory calculations of calories, or the results of single analyses of gastric contents. Such systems add scientific interest to the general subject of dietetics, but the problems of right feeding in disease must be studied in the light of clinical experience, and modified to meet ever changing conditions. One of the commonest of dietetic errors is the too long continuance of a dietary which, although at first beneficial, may result in anaemia or asthenia by becoming monotonous or failing to meet all the complex demands of nutrition.
Diseases apparently demanding opposite dietetic treatment may coexist in the same patient, and without great care starvation may ensue. No one food is curative of any disease, just as no one food may be said to be causative of any disease. These principles, which form the basis of the book, have been still further emphasized in the present edition.”
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