Faculty of Pharmacy in Beni Suef organizes a symposium on "Basics of Clinical Nutrition"
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Under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mansour Hassan, President of Beni Suef University, the Faculty of Pharmacy organized a symposium entitled "Basics of healthy nutrition" under the supervision of Dr. Sameh Al-Maraghi, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, and Dr. Basem Anwar Shehata, Dean of the Faculty, lectured by Dr. Ahmed Abd Allah Khalaf, head of Pharmacists Division at the Chamber of Commerce in Beni Suef, in the presence of a number of faculty members, employees, and students at the college.
Prof. Dr. Mansour Hassan confirmed that the symposium comes in accordance with the cooperation concluded between the College of Pharmacy and the Chamber of Commerce for Pharmacists to educate students, guide them and make them aware of the concept of therapeutic nutrition, especially as it is the basis for treating chronic and non-chronic diseases and is not less important than drug therapy, and therapeutic nutrition has many goals, including educating the patient regarding what is related to the necessity of adhering to the prescribed diet, supplying the patient's body with nutritional deficiencies, maintaining his health, and guiding him to follow a good diet that meets his needs while taking into account his eating habits.
Dr. Bassem Anwar, Dean of the College, added that therapeutic nutrition for the body is one of the most important things that help patients with obesity or thinness to reach appropriate therapeutic nutrition and a healthy weight suitable for them while trying to avoid any negative effects on health, indicating that therapeutic nutrition must be subject in general to supervision of a specialized doctor to distribute nutrients, adding that therapeutic nutrition helps prevent diabetes, heart and high cholesterol.
The symposium dealt with the concept of therapeutic nutrition and different diets, how to determine the appropriate ones, and the importance of using sports in addition to these systems and medicines, in addition to the medical analysis that must be conducted to follow up the situation before and during the “diet” period. The systems used to gain weight and treat thinness were also explained.