Was born the FAES diet program, the first online tool for making diet for type 2 diabetic patients.
now AP professionals can customize the diet of patients with diabetes type 2.
-the goal of the Faes diet program is to offer doctors a useful and simple tool to help them prescribe diets taking into account the circumstances of each patient
-www.programadietasfaes.com website is available from November 1
– to the diabetic patient, in addition to menus, given some guidelines to make them in the future, indicating daily rations you need of each type of food, which helps you manage your disease
Madrid, November 2011- Faes Farma has just launched diets Faes program, an online tool that provides both the endocrine and primary care physician, nutritionist and nurses, the prescription of diet the patient with type 2 diabetes. The tool is available from November 1 in www.programadietasfaes.com.
According to the DRA. Carmen Gómez Candela, head of the unit of clinical nutrition and dietetics of the Hospital Universitario La Paz, as well as coordinator of this project, diets Faes is a program very intuitive and, above all, educational. So far, does not exist anything like that, and is a great help for AP Professional because you can customize the diet in each case and also a benefit for the patient who may have a more varied diet and better control of their disease ”.
The Web page, the health professional introduces data on age, weight, height, waist measurement and physical activity of the patient and system makes three weekly with different options menu so that it can combine food and enjoy a more varied diet. Guidelines are also given to develop the menus in the future, indicating daily rations you need of each type of food.
A pioneering online tool
Currently, there is no such guide that individualized diets. The diabetes educator – that often come from nursing – which proposes the menu to the diabetic, but it offers is a general menu. Professionals do not have enough materials to make a menu that adapts to each patient. Diets Faes aims to offer a simple and useful program that will help them prescribe more individualized diets ” drew the DRA. Gómez Candela.
More choice and control for diabetic patients
The program allows adjust calories each patient, singling the diet of each according to their physical activity, physiological data, etc. and offers menus varied both winter and summer. It also takes into account whether the patient is suffering from other health problems like hypertension, Hyperlipidemia or ischemic heart disease.
According to the DRA. Gómez Candela that a diet is followed correctly, it should be easily understandable and offer food options, so there are many patients who end up not to follow the diet and must optimize the treatment to control his sugar. With this new program, up to 90-95% of patients with type 2 diabetes could benefit from a personalized diet appropriate to your situation. ”
the program, in addition to being available online, has been published in a book, edited by Faes, called nutritional treatment of diabetes type 2 in primary care ”. Also considering the possibility that the diet can adapt to more specific characteristics of each patient, according to the demand for doctors.
About FAES FARMA
FAES FARMA is a Spanish company with an international vocation which researches, produces and markets pharmaceutical products for over 75 years.
The three main therapeutic areas of FAES FARMA are metabolism, respiratory allergies, and women’s health, although it sells a wide range of products in various therapeutic areas. It currently has 2 production sites in the Iberian Peninsula and exports drugs and raw materials to more than 60 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
