For the purpose of rational nutrition of patients, it is necessary to provide the body with a sufficient amount of food of a strictly defined composition (proteins and fats of animals and plants, carbohydrates, salts) and at the same time, you need to take care of a sufficient supply of vitamins, since the absence of the latter leads to a number of characteristic severe disorders in the body ... Roger believes that patients during illness consume all their reserves of vitamins, and if they do not get enough of them with food, they fall ill with vitamin deficiency anemia.
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