A variety of medical conditions can affect your appetite. Your illness, medicines or surgery can cause these problems. Many people become frustrated when they know they need to eat to get well but they aren't hungry, or when they gain weight because they are fatigued and unable to exercise.

As certified nutritionists, also be called clinical nutritionists, the team are highly qualified professionals who structure diets for ailing patients based on how food can affect the body biochemically. They may consider digestive problems, metabolic issues, immune function, how the brain responds to certain chemicals and how by-products can harm a patient's health. They work with individuals one on one when structuring a specialist diet. This is because each of their patients will have a health concern that affects what they can consume.