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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 25 Jul 2019

    People need to stop shaming hospitals for giving patients "unhealthy" food: 1. Food can be very disease-specific 2. Hospitals are full of very sick people who deserve a break from caring about anything other than getting better

    3:29 PM - 25 Jul 2019
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 25 Jul 2019

        You'd better believe I'd ask for a plate of fries if I had a massive infection and had to be on IV antibiotics for a week

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 25 Jul 2019

        Note: I'm not saying 'bad' food. If the food is inedible, people won't eat it!

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      4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 25 Jul 2019

        Health Nerd Retweeted Karen

        https://twitter.com/kcIMT122/status/1154534447259082753?s=19 …

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        Karen @kcIMT122
        Replying to @matt_nurse @GidMK
        I'm with you on the healthy vs unhealthy issue. If the frail woman with throat cancer can only swallow ice cream - hell, yeah. Go for it. Anything she can work up an appetite for, that slides down OK, is fine by me. But "palatable"? No. Noooooo. It is too often not palatable. >
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      2. Eric O'Grey‏ @Eric_OGrey 25 Jul 2019
        Replying to @GidMK

        I strongly disagree. I once woke in a cardiac ward being served a cheeseburger, French fries and carton of milk. In my view that is malpractice. Hospitals are in business to heal people. There is no circumstance in which a patient is better off by being served Mickey Ds.

        1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
      3. Chris‏ @cp_elevated 25 Jul 2019
        Replying to @Eric_OGrey @GidMK

        If heart disease was like getting a cold, I could understand. But it takes decades so a few meals isn't something to fret over. When I was in the hospital for several days, I hardly ate anything. But what I ate was highly caloric, which was probably needed.

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      2.  ❤️ 💙Matthew Nurse ❤️ 💙‏ @matt_nurse 25 Jul 2019
        Replying to @GidMK

        People just don't seem to understand that for a hospital food service dietitian it's often a significant challenge to get some patients to eat enough energy to remain alive. That's why the food is often so palatable, easy to eat and high in calories.

        3 replies 6 retweets 41 likes
      3.  ❤️ 💙Matthew Nurse ❤️ 💙‏ @matt_nurse 25 Jul 2019
        Replying to @matt_nurse @GidMK

        Its not going to be very easy to explain to the coroner that the reason why a frail elderly woman with throat cancer starved to death in hospital is because you left her with pile of celery sticks.

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      2. Kevin Bass, MS‏ @kevinnbass 25 Jul 2019
        Replying to @GidMK

        Feeding patients healthy food does not cause them to care about their food?

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 25 Jul 2019
        Replying to @kevinnbass

        The most important thing is to get them well enough to get out of hospital. The community is a much better place to address questions about healthy eating

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      2. Liv  ❄️ 🏔‏ @CheerstoLiving 25 Jul 2019

        Options, good. Forcing people who are acutely ill to eat healthy ? Not good. If they’re morbidly obese, perhaps- but I think you’d be surprised how many hospital patients don’t fit that category whatsoever.

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