9. Food

You may try to request from the dietary department only fresh fruits and uncooked vegetables. Most, often, however, these foods will not be available in the quantity or quality that you require. You may, then, have food brought in from the outside.

Ask family and friends to bring in your fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, dried fruits, etc. This is the best way, and probably the only way, that you will be able to obtain good food. As a general rule, do not accept any of the hospital fare. Even their fruit juices should be regarded with suspicion. Most often it is not real fruit juice but a fruit-flavored drink with sugar and other chemicals added. Rely on your outside sources.