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Nutrition, Family Physicians, and Health
J. Lloyd Michener, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(7):587-588.
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SHOULD FAMILY PHYSICIANS be more involved in the nutritional assessment and dietary counseling of their patients? This is an awkward time to raise such a question. Many of us are scrambling simply to take care of the pressing problems that bring patients to our offices. All of us are besieged with the proliferating recommendations that call on family physicians to do more counseling, screening, and educating of patients, often without reimbursement. It would appear that we have enough to do without adding the burden of dealing with obesity, high sodium intake, or inadequate fiber in the diets of our patients.
Nevertheless, this is a task that we need to take on. The evidence is overwhelming that we live in a society in which overconsumption is the major cause of death. We are looked to as the source of dietary advice by our patients, who expect us to advise and counsel
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Author Affiliations
Durham, NC
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