Dietary advice
As many of the patients did not manage to eat large portions, they were often advised
to have an energy-dense diet to satisfy their energy requirements. The easiest way to
increase the energy content of food is to add fat. In the recommendations for diets in
Swedish hospitals (100), the recommended level of fat in an energy-dense diet is 35
energy per cent (E%). This should be compared with the Nordic recommendation for
healthy people, which is