Shakira Nutri Hub

  Do you know that our body gives signal?  We need to listen to those signal to understand the  body ,which undergoes through a 24-hour cycle of physical, mental, and behavior changes. With the more knowledge available on social media, people get more confused, that’s what happening in today’s time. As modern society poses many challenges to our health and well-being due to reasons like shift-duty, sleep deprivation and jet lag, that disrupt our body clock. It is now becoming clear that circadian disruption is increasing the incidence and severity of many diseases, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. CAMP HIGHLIGHTS: We have conducted a nutritional awareness camp for the senior citizen and tried to find out their knowledge through interview, goggle form developed and biochemical tests like CBC, TSH, CHOLESTEROL, RBC, Height, Weight were conducted. Since senior citizens participated were very few (sample size 16), Personal Interview-was conducted and one...

Certain  functional foods have medicinal value which one has to recognize. Since years, food is used as therapeutic medicine treatment for many diseases and for the patient’s convalescence, quoted by Ancient physicians, such as Hippocrates, Celsius, and Avicenna. Why do we use tube feeding (Ryle’s tube)?  It is often observed that patients on tube feeding does not get required  nutrition. There are  patients who are unable to  fulfill their nutritional requirement , as per their clinical condition . Example are  many reasons such as can’t swallow, dysphagia ,mouth cancer, esophagus cancer, severe accidents, stroke ,Parkinson and various other physiological conditions.  In order to fulfill  their increased metabolic and prolonged needs  through tube, feedings are being given. Their  nutrition requirement should get  fulfilled  by giving in blenderized form with added nutritional supplement. There is a con...

One can fight Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) a rare disorder even after getting infected with SARS corona, in which the body's immune system severely damages nerve and  cause muscle weakness sometimes leading to paralysis. As  its cause is not fully understood, the syndrome often follows infection with a virus or bacteria here. Catch point : one X patient 30 years old Male in Covid time having case of GB Syndrome along with symptoms like double vision , hoarseness of voice and chocking episodes after food, pain in lips, neck tightness, bifacial weakness, he was having difficulty in swallowing.   I am sharing experience of one patients who suffered from post Covid  GBS ,he had (SARS-CoV-2) on 15 April 2021 along with  thyroid issues and uric acid levels high. 2nd may 2021 he was facing weakness in the limbs and was unable to speak.  5th may 2021  his left side of the face developed palsy. 6 th may   2021 he was hospitalized, post 10 days he was...

  The prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease is increasing day by day as per latest statistics and there is need to introduce appropriate measures to hamper the progression of kidney function deterioration. In spite of dietary guidelines available for CKD management, which gets updated every now and then, but still issue remains unresolved.  Every time there are studies done to see nutritional status of renal patient but still no decrease in the rate of mortality. At present majority of patients on dialysis fall under all age group category. As age increases risk of several other diseases also increases along with poor nutritional intake, because of long-term dialysis. The nutritional disturbances due to dialysis, compounds to the problem and the patients become more susceptible to malnutrition. ·     Methodology: Basic demographic data were collected from all participating patients. Charlson Co morbidity Index (CCI) scores, using standard methods, were calc...

  D iet consultation live workshop was conducted at one of the renowned school with  motive to see the overall health of working staff and even  to know  actual nutritional status of  academic and non academic staff working in  the school. PURPOSE OF WORKSHOP: is    to assess nutritionally, check awareness,  to fill the gap if existing and  guiding about overall health Education.  METHODOLOGY:  Sample  consisting of 90 Participants(Teaching and Non-Teaching staff) were collected through Google forms which comprised  of General Information, gender, medical diagnosis (current/History), height, weight, BMI    was interpreted through their test which was conducted during the camp. (BMI, BP, BMD, RBS)and  via  Personal Interview data was collected. NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION  TOOLS USED:   Digital flyers were used to educate the participants.  One to One Counseling was given to the par...