{"id":2274,"date":"2007-09-04T05:33:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T05:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diyhealth.com\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2014-06-16T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T08:22:24","slug":"uk-hospitals-to-weigh-all-patients-to-solve-eating-disorder-and-obesity-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/globalhealthcare\/uk-hospitals-to-weigh-all-patients-to-solve-eating-disorder-and-obesity-problems","title":{"rendered":"UK hospitals to weigh all patients to solve eating disorder and obesity problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"doctorsThe British health administration sees to be all set to erase the ‘taboo’ about its hospitals that frail elderly people are found under-nourished when they leave hospital — their food being unappealing or been placed out of their reach.
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So, next time you visit a hospital; don’t be surprised if a nurse asks you to step on that weighing machine on admission. It will all now happen in the United Kingdom, in a bid to see that the malnourished patients are not left to starve.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not just that! Rigorous guidelines<\/a> will also make hospital staff ensure that patients who are frail and elderly are particularly helped to eat their food.<\/p>

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Its service-guidelines will also require identifying young women suffering from eating disorders. The number of patients leaving hospital without basic nourishment has been found rising through time, with its increase by two thirds in just five years!<\/p>\n

To add to the austere situation, every year, 13 million hospital meals are been thrown away untouched by patients.
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\nBesides identifying malnourished patients, or those who are at the risk of malnourishment, the new guidance will definitely be a wise way to ensure overweight people’s identification and proper treatment – which may provide an effective helping hand in lowering the prevailing obesity-epidemic. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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