Lost weight

78 year-old S. was in hospital for six weeks from April 2006 and found the food “dreadful”. The food was brought in from a distance and re-heated in a microwave‚ and S. found it to be “completely denatured and tasteless”.

During her stay in hospital‚ she lost about 20lbs and dropped two dress sizes. She believes that some of the weakness she continued to experience at home was due to not eating properly in hospital.

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