Dietetics & Nutrition Services

Anthropometry is the measurement of physical attributes such as height, weight, and fat mass composition of the human body, offering valuable insights into an individual’s nutritional status.

Anthropometric assessment is an essential component of nutritional evaluation to determine malnutrition, weight status, obesity, loss of muscular mass, gain of fat mass, and adipose tissue redistribution.

Anthropometric indicators are used to evaluate the prognosis of chronic and acute diseases, guiding medical intervention for patients in need.

A nutrition intervention aims to resolve or improve the nutrition diagnosis or problem by providing advice, education, or delivering specific dietary components through a tailored meal plan designed to meet the patient’s needs.

The 4 categories of nutrition intervention are:

Nutrition intervention comprises strategies that target nutritional intake, nutrition-related knowledge or behaviour, environmental conditions, or access to supportive care and services.

The goals of these interventions provide a way to track progress and measure outcomes.

By understanding your health goals, food preferences, cooking habits, beverage choices, exercise frequency, sleep quality, stress levels, and existing health concerns, we create a comprehensive profile for you. This helps us identify factors that may affect your health and highlight areas that are important or challenging for you to address.

Our advice and recommendations are tailored to your individual lifestyle, diet, current health status, and health goals. We assess six key areas that impact your overall well-being: diet, activity levels, lifestyle, body weight, stress, and any current health concerns.

These assessments will be helpful during your one-to-one consultation with our dietitians.

Dietitians provide personalised recommendations based on a patient’s food preferences, and according to their medical, educational, cultural, and socioeconomic needs.

Initial visits to dietitians often require one hour, and follow-up visits range from 20–30 minutes depending on the diagnosis and level of health literacy.

Dietitians send reports of initial and follow-up visits to the referring doctors, outlining their complete nutrition assessment and interpretation of the patient’s diet and lifestyle. These reports include recommendations and plans for follow-up.

It is important to reiterate these suggestions, motivate the patient to follow the advice, and keep track of the progress.