Justify How the Two-Day Diet Plan Meets the Dietary Needs of the Two Service Users

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Task 3 D1 – Justify how the two-day diet plan meets the dietary needs of the two service users Rickets in a 4 year old boy Rickets is a bone disease that affects infants and young children. The child’s growing bones fail to develop properly due to a lack of vitamin D. This can result in soft and weakened bones, fractures, bone and muscle pain, and can result in deformities. A two day diet plan for a four year old boy with rickets was done with the hope of strengthening his bones as he was lacking vitamin D and showing signs of having rickets since birth as he has bow legs. This could have developed when his mother was pregnant with him, due to the fact that her diet did not consist of enough vitamin D. As diet is very important in preventing this disease from getting worse and treating it, adding a lot of the right nutrient in his daily meal helps. His body needs calcium and phosphorus for growth and development. Taking the governments eight point plan into consideration, three solid meals a day plus beverage, snacks and five a day fruits or close to five, were included in his diet plan. If vitamin D is lacking in his diet, his body will not have the ability to control the levels of these minerals and so increase the risk of the disease getting worse. For this reason, protein, calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D have all been included in his diet plan to give him the balance he needs. Vitamin D is known to absorb fat in diet preventing obesity. Also included to his main meal is fiber. This is to keep up his strength and energy level as he continues to grow. Oily fish are very high in vitamin D, but it is common knowledge that children are not very fund of them. Other food have very little in them, so vitamin D supplement was included to make up from what is lost in his daily diet. When possible, he should be taken out of the house at least once a day to get

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