Dietary Prescription

Darwin AnD Dhaine

The Diet Prescription

 The Diet Prescription defines the calorie needs that an individual needs and how those calories will be distributed among the macronutrients.  Diet Plan gives the total number of exchanges to be eaten in a day for a specific diet prescription.

List I - Group A vegetables

 Malabar night shade  Papaya, green  Bittermelon leaves and  Sponge gourd fruit  Cucumber  Garlic leaves  Chinese cabbage  Squash flowers and Cabbage leaves  Eggplant  Tomatoes  Bottle gourd  Sweet potato leaves  Mushroom, fresh  Cauliflower  Bamboo shoot  Swamp cabbage

List I - Group B Vegetables

 Jackfruit  Yam bean  Stringbeans, pod  Okra  Carrot  Squash fruit  Mung bean sprout  Onion

List II – Fruit Exchanges

 Papaya, ripe  Marang  Pineapple  Lansones  Durian  Pear  Guava  Santol  Jackfruit, ripe  Star apple  Mangosteen  Strawberry

List III – Milk Exchange

 Whole milk  Low Fat  Evaporated  Powdered  Fresh carabao’s milk  Lite fat fresh milk  Fresh cow’s milk  Powdered  Skimmed/ very Low fat  Buttermilk  Yoghurt

List IV – Rice Exchange

 Rice cooked  Rice Equivalents  Rice gruel  Bread  CAKES  Rice Products  Cookies  Ampaw  Noodles  Bibingka  Bihon  Biko  Pasta  Puto  Root crops  Palitaw  Corn and corn products  Suman

List V – Meat Exchange

 Beef  Fish  Pork  Other seafoods  Chicken  Carabao  Goat  Cat

List VI – Fat Exchange

 Saturated fats  Unsaturated fats  Bacon  Corn oil  Butter  Sesame oil  Cream cheese  Peanut butter  Margarine  Shortening  Mayonnaise  Avocado  Whipping cream

List VII- Sugar Exchanges

 Honey  Chewing gum  Jam and jellies  Bukayo  Syrups  Halo2x  Yema  Ice candy  Caramel