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Nutrition Counseling

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Nutrition counseling is a common part of the daily practice of family medicine. A review of patients seen in a university family practice center revealed that 50% of the patients should have had some form of nutrition counseling as interpreted by a nutritionist. In a large study of Virginia family practice patients, reported by Marsland et al.,1 patients with seven of the 20 most common problems seen should have had nutrition counseling.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Heffron, W.A., Acosta, P.B. (1983). Nutrition Counseling. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8_27

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