KONSULTASI GIZI UNTUK MENINGKATKAN TERAPI DIET BAGI PENDERITA PENYAKIT DEGENERATIF PADA KELOMPOK IBU-IBU PKK DUSUN PRAYAN GUMPANG KECAMATAN KARTASURA

Abstract

This public service aims at giving nutrition consultation on diet therapy towards people with degenerative disease as well as motivating the community to overcome the disease mainly to those who suffer from it. This autonomous activity is done by planning a diet therapy. The participants of the study are the women who are active in PKK in Rt 02 Rw I, Prayan, Gumpang, Kartasura, Sukoharjo. The activities are, namely: individual nutrition consultation conducted during PKK meeting which is conducted monthly and the like. The result shows that people with degenarative disease take a great number in the society of Gumpang Kartasura. Yet, the people’s knowledge on such disease and the diet therapy are still very low. Besides, the people still believe that the food combination in order to conquer the disease is not an important thing as one way of healing it. Based on the facts above this nutrition consultation is very useful to help the people to overcome and to cure the disease.