Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills: A Guide for Professionals


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Now in vibrant full color, this updated Seventh Edition of Holli’s best-selling Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills: A Guide for Professionals helps students develop the communications, counseling, interviewing, motivational, and professional skills they’ll need as Registered Dietitian professionals. Throughout the book, the authors focus on effective nutrition interventions, evidence-based theories and models, clinical nutrition principles, and knowledge of behavioral science and educational approaches. Packed with activities, case studies, and self-assessment questions, the Seventh Edition features new content that reflects the latest changes in the field, new online videos that bring nutrition counseling techniques to life, and a powerful array of new and enhanced in-text and online learning tools.




Dietitian's Guide to Assessment and Documentation


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Dietitian’s Guide to Assessment and Documentation takes an investigative approach to nutrition assessment – reviewing the collection and analysis of evidence to determine the real nutrition-related problem, understanding the underlying problem and its effect on nutritional status, and providing intervention to address the problem - thereby improving nutritional health. This text will help students learn how to formulate interview questions, how to create goals and patient teaching strategies, how to interpret lab data, how to write a care plan and how to document in a medical record. This book is needed to help the dietitian do a thorough assessment and understand the proper documentation to prevent lawsuit, or defend the dietitian in a lawsuit, as well as prepare the dietitian for Joint Commission or State survey. Includes a reference section for interpretation of lab data and an appendix with commonly used abbreviations.




Dietitian’s Pocket Guide for Nutrition in Spanish


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Dietitian’s Pocket Guide for Nutrition in Spanish is a small, handy, pocket guide with quick Nutritional information in English and in Spanish, with a Spanish pronunciation guide.




Communicating Nutrition


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Spanish for the Nutrition Professional


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Be prepared to effectively communicate with your Hispanic and Latino patients or clients with this handy pocket guide that supports the Joint Commission's focus on cultural sensitivity. Communicating is not just about speaking a language, but also understanding culture, including common beliefs and differences in dietary habits. Topics include how to have an introductory conversation in Spanish, typical Spanish eating habits, foods and meal times, and common questions and phrases in Spanish that you might frequently use with clients.




Academy Of Nutrition And Dietetics Complete Food And Nutrition Guide, 5th Ed


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The newest edition of the most trusted nutrition bible. Since its first, highly successful edition in 1996, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Complete Food and Nutrition Guide has continually served as the gold-standard resource for advice on healthy eating and active living at every age and stage of life. At once accessible and authoritative, the guide effectively balances a practical focus with the latest scientific information, serving the needs of consumers and health professionals alike. Opting for flexibility over rigid dos and don’ts, it allows readers to personalize their own paths to healthier living through simple strategies. This newly updated Fifth Edition addresses the most current dietary guidelines, consumer concerns, public health needs, and marketplace and lifestyle trends in sections covering Choices for Wellness; Food from Farm to Fork; Know Your Nutrients; Food for Every Age and Stage of Life; and Smart Eating to Prevent and Manage Health Issues.




American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide


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Offers tips and guidelines for following a healthy diet, from choosing the right food at the supermarket to eating well at every stage in life.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition


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The healthy vegan diet-made easy. Vegans face their own special challenges when it comes to nutrition and this book provides answers. There are about one million vegans in the U.S. and about 50,000 new ones every year. A growing number of physicians advocate a completely plant-based diet for many of their patients who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Plant-Based Nutrition, readers will find: ? Where to get nutrients that others get from meat and dairy. ? How to avoid the vegan pitfall of overfed but undernourished. ? How to spot hidden animal ingredients in packaged foods. ? Tips for eating at restaurants. ? Special considerations for children and seniors.