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Diet and Nutrition
A proper diet is important to all individuals, regardless of health. Everyone should maintain a diet that provides all essential nutrients and should avoid being overweight or underweight. A desirable weight should be maintained by good dietary habits over a long period of time rather than by alternating periods of overeating and under eating.
Diet is important in the management of many diseases, diabetes mellitus for example. Also, many diseases can alter food intake. Therefore, attention to diet and nutrition is important in almost any disease.
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- Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP)
- Variegate Porphyria (VP)
- Hereditary Coproporphyria (HCP)
- ALAD Porphyria (ADP)
- Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT)
- Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) or Protoporphyria
- Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria (CEP)
- Hepatoerythropoietic Porphyria (HEP)
- Diet and Nutrition
- Importance of nutrition
- Nutrition in the acute porphyrias
- Nutrition in non-acute Porphyria
- Devising a diet
- Weight loss & acute Porphyria
- Nutritional management of acute Porphyria attacks
- The glucose effect in acute porphyrias
- Eating behavior and Porphyria
- A combination of triggers
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