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To the Editor: Heaven help us! Diets in university hospitals may be lacking in nutritional value, according to Singer et al. (Nov. 7 issue).¹ Perhaps we should question whether a "healthy diet" given to a helpless patient during a 2- to 10-day hospital stay benefits anyone or anything other than the dietitian's sense of "doing good." I am always bothered when a healthy 75-year-old recovering from a joint-replacement procedure is deprived of a desired morning egg because a "healthy" low-cholesterol diet has been ordered. Perhaps a case can be made for informing hospitalized patients about the possible benefits of changing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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N Engl J Med 1996; 335:1466-1467, Nov 7, 1996. Correspondence

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