To be able to live healthy and productive, every individual needs to organize his daily food. Food arrangement must be adapted to the body’s need for nutrients. In healthy individuals (normal health condition) will be different than how your food with people who are recovering or treatment.
The difference starts from the types of food that will be consumed, the amount of food (portion / quantity), time of administration, the granting of frequency, route of administration, to the quality of food associated with its nutritional content.
Setting food for a family, especially in the daily diet will vary with the settings for the JV hospital food. The food provided will also vary according to age, physiological state, activity / activities, sex, body size, and temperature / climate.
Food arrangements can be defined as a process of planning, processing and presentation of the food, which is tailored to the needs of the body in order to maintain the health of a person / individual. The food must be planned in accordance with the physiological kopndisi someone.
Planning at the start of how the menus are arranged, how the foods selected, how the method of processing is done and how the amount or portion of food that will be served. All should be well planned so that any food that will be consumed the nutritional and health qualities. The food quality would be good for the health.
Quoting Kelen Andrews Guthrie (1983), basic nutrition or basic principles of nutrition is the study of food and nutrition, digestion, absorption and metabolism in the body, due to lack of functionality and variety as well as advantages for the body.
So the science of nutrition is the study of nutrients and their relationship to health at first to be able to live a healthy life we know the slogan “four of five perfectly healthy”. This slogan is still not able to change the diet of people for the better and healthier. This slogan if executed properly, is expected to prevent the onset of malnutrition and overnutrition.
Currently eating patterns of Indonesian society began to change. Caused by economic and lifestyle factors, more people eating patterns tend to practical food and fast food that tends to even high-calorie instant.
Over time, the government since 1993 began disseminating “General Guidelines for Balanced Nutrition”. However, its impact has not reached widespread community. Socialization is not evenly distributed to all levels of society. PUGS newly introduced to the user community posyandu, while not using the service posyandu not get adequate information.