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Sample menu for under weight

By Mumtaz Khalid Ismail

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Under weight is referred as weight below 10 percent of the ideal weight for the age and sex. This may be due to inadequate nutrition, hereditary, reduced absorption or due to increased utilisation of nutrients. Under weight person, if it is due to under nutrition are more liable to nutritional deficiency disorders and prone to infectious diseases. The morbidity and mortality is more among the under weight. The diet recommended for an underweight person should be high in protein, calorie, and fat. A well balanced diet that meet the above requirements, adequate exercise, rest, emotional balance and other wise healthy state is required for the weight gain in an under weight person.

Sample menu for 2800 Kcal for under weight

	Diet plan A Vegetarian	Diet plan B Non vegetarian
	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with sugar)	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with sugar)
	Milk - 1 cup Upma - 1 cup Chutney - 2tsp Banana - 1	Milk - 1 cup Wheat Bread - 2 slice Egg -2 Chickoo - 2-3
	Fruit juice - 1 glass	Fruit juice - 1 glass
	Rice -1 cup Chapathi - 4nos Dhal - 1 cup Cauliflower sabji - 1 cup Curd - 3/4cup Salad - A medium helping	Chapathi - 5nos Mutton curry - 3 -4 pieces Aloo mattar sabji- 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Salad - A medium helping
	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with sugar) Ground nuts - hand full	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with sugar) Pistachichos - 1/2 hand full
	Bajra roti - 2 Sprouts - 1 cup Beans aloo sabji - 1 cup Salad - A helping	Rice -1 1/2 cup dhal 1 cup palak panner - 1 cup Salad - A helping
	Milk - 1 cup	Milk - 1 cup

1 chapathi / roti = 40gms

Foods should be encouraged liberally

1. Enjoy nuts and dried fruits like groundnuts, almonds, Pistachichos, cashewnuts, dried dates, and raisins.
2. Use full fat milk and milk products eg: full fat milk, cheese, butter and khoa
3. Sweets and sweetened fruit juices.
4. Meat and eggs can be included in the daily diet.
5. Include roots and tubers like potato, sweet potato, yam, tapioca and colocasia in the diet.
6. Fried and fatty foods should be avoided
7. Water should not be taken before and in between meals.
8. Among the fruits enjoy banana, mango, chickoo, custard apple, black currants, avocado pear.
9. Eat 5-6 meals instead of 3 meals.
10. Stop smoking, it reduces appetite apart from other complications it can lead to.
11. Increase the intake of cereals like rice, wheat, suji
12. Pulses and sprouts will give calories and enough nutrients in the diet.
13. Sugar, jaggery and honey
14. Pastry, dessert, jam, murabba, sweets

Sample menu for 3200 kcal for under weight

	Diet plan A Vegetarian	Diet plan B Non vegetarian
	Fruit juice with sugar	Tea / Coffee with sugar
	Milk - 1 cup Corn flakes- 1 cup Banana - 1	Toast - 2 slice Omelette Butter - 1tsp
	Tea / Coffee with sugar Cake - 1piece	Milk - 1 cup Besan ladoo - 1
	Mixed veg soup - 1 bowl Rice -1 cup Chapathi - 2nos Sprouts -1 cup French beans sabji - 1 cup Curd - 3/4cup Salad - A good helping	Wheat Bread - 4 slice Mutton curry - 3 -4 pieces Aloo gobi sabji- 1 cup Curd - 3/4 cup Salad - A good helping
	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with sugar) Almond - hand full	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with sugar) Cashew nut - hand full
	Roti - 2 Dhal- 1 cup Palak aloo sabji - 1 cup Kheer - 1 helping Salad - A helping	Chicken soup - 1 bowl Rice -1 cup Fish curry Methi aloo sabji - 1 cup Custard with fruit salad - 1 helping Salad - A helping
	Milk - 1 cup	Milk - 1 cup

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