What you drink is equally as important as what you eat.
Nutrition has a profound impact on one’s physical, spiritual and mental health. This is particularly relevant for someone living with a disability. Good health starts with a healthy digestive system. However, many health conditions significantly hinder one’s digestion, absorption and elimination functions, which can lead to common and recurring secondary health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, pressure sores, tendonitis, osteoporosis, neurological pain, constipation, bladder infections and obesity.
Landscape of Literacy and Disability (Canadian Abilities Foundation publication) by Ezra Zubrow, et al.