La unión hace la fuerza: terapia nutricional y ejercicio físico, una relación imprescindible

Abstract

Introduction: Nutrition therapy and exercise form an essential tandem to maintain the functional capacity of patients and, therefore, improve your quality of life. Oral nutritional supplements are part of the medical nutrition treatment. The success of taking nutritional supplements, lies in the therapeutic adherence. The therapeutic adherence is defined by who as "the degree to which the behavior of a patient, in relation to the taking of medication, monitoring a diet or modifying life habits correspond to the recommendations agreed with the health professional ". There are some factors that limit its achievement. Therefore, we must identify them and have tools to solve them so that the patient does not interrupt the prescribed treatment, both from prevention and intervention.