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Nutritional Medicine Research CLINICAL USE OF OTHER DIETARY INTERVENTIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC HUMAN DISORDERS. Alkaline-ash diet. A diet consisting mainly of fruit, vegetables and milk with minimal amounts of meat, fish, eggs, cheese, and cereals, which, when catabolized, leave an alkaline residue to be excreted in the urine. Bland diet. A regular diet omitting foods that mechanically or chemically irritate the gastrointestinal tract. Challenge diet. A diet in which one or more specific substances are included for the purpose of determining whether an abnormal reaction occurs. Diabetic diet. A dietary adjustment for patients with diabetes mellitus intended to decrease the need for insulin or oral diabetic agents. Elimination diet. A diet designed to detect which ingredient of the food causes allergic manifestations in the patient. Giordano-Giovannetti diet. A diet designed for patients with renal failure; it provides small amounts of protein, primarily as essential amino acids, along with alpha-keto derivatives of amino acids. Gluten-free diet. For the treatment of Celiac disease or gluten-sensitive enteropathy, This involves elimination of all wheat, rye, barley and oat gluten from the diet. High-calorie diet. A diet containing upward of 4,000 calories per day. High-fiber diet. A diet high in the nondigestible part of plants, which is fiber. Soluble fiber delays absorption of glucose, which helps to control blood sugar in diabetes mellitus, and delays absorption of lipids, which helps to control hyperlipidemia. Kempner diet. A diet of rice, fruit and sugar, plus vitamin and iron supplements, devised by Kempner to treat hypertension. In 2,000 calories, the diet contains 5 gm or less of fat, about 20 gm of protein, and not more than 150 mg of sodium. Ketogenic diet. Demonstrated in several recent clinical trials to be an effective tool to treat Petit Mal Epilepsy in children. It consists of a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and normal protein diet causing ketosis. Low purine diet. A diet low in precursors of purines (such as tissues rich in cells with abundant nuclei, as in liver, glandular meats, etc.) to minimize formation of uric acid. Useful in treatment of patients with gout or urate-containing renal calculi. Low residue diet. A diet that leaves minimal unabsorbed components in the intestine, to minimize functional stress on the colon. Low salt diet. A diet with restricted amounts of sodium chloride, necessary in the treatment of some cases of hypertension, heart failure, and other syndromes characterized by fluid retention and/or edema formation. Meulengracht's diet. A feeding program for patients with peptic ulcer disease, containing a relatively full diet, free of acidic or highly seasoned food. Minot-Murphy diet. The use of large amounts of raw liver in the treatment of pernicious anemia. First successes in the treatment of this disease occurred with this diet and led to development of liver extract for treatment. Ornish prevention diets. Relaxed versions of the Ornish reversal diet, which is designed to prevent coronary artery disease. These diets reduce dietary fat in proportion to blood cholesterol level. Ornish reversal diet. A diet designed by Dean Ornish, who has evidence that it will reverse coronary artery disease. It consists of 10% of calories from fat (mostly polyunsaturated or monounsaturated, with 5 mg cholesterol per day), 70 to 75% from carbohydrates Smooth diet. A diet containing little roughage; used primarily in diseases of the colon. Please e-mail us your questions or suggestions to: Go to
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