Good nutrition helps keep your immune system strong, enabling you to better fight disease. A healthy diet improves quality of life.
Weight loss, wasting, and malnutrition continue to be common problems in HIV, despite more effective antiretroviral medications, and can contribute to HIV disease progression.
Good nutrition helps the body process the many medications taken by people with HIV.
Diet (and exercise) may help with symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, and fatigue, and with fat redistribution and metabolic abnormalities such as high blood sugar, cholesterol, and triglycerides
