Why is good nutrition important in HIV?
- Good nutrition helps keep your immune system
strong, enabling you to better fight disease. A healthy diet improves
quality of life.
- Weight loss, wasting, and malnutrition continue
to be common problems in HIV, despite more effective antiretroviral
medications, and can contribute to HIV disease progression.
- Good nutrition helps the body process the many
medications taken by people with HIV.
- Diet (and exercise) may help with symptoms
such as diarrhea, nausea, and fatigue, and with fat redistribution
and metabolic abnormalities such as high blood sugar, cholesterol,
and triglycerides.
See “Building
a High Quality Diet” for how to create a good nutrition
plan for life.
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