Friday, November 11, 2011

Medical Nutrition Therapy

If you have a medical condition, such as diabetes, high cholesterol or cardiovascular disease, your doctor will or should refer you to a registered dietitian for medical nutrition therapy or MNT.


Why?


Because registered dietitians are highly trained healthcare professionals with extensive experience in food, nutrition and dietetics. As a result of the extensive training and experience, a registered dietitian can answer your food and nutrition questions and help you understand how to use food to improve your health.


Patients are often told to talk to their doctor about diet and nutrition. But in fact, physicians have little or no training in this area. As a result, you are not likely to get much guidance.

Physicians are trained to assess your health status and to know when to make the referral to other healthcare experts. Yet, few bother to make the referral when managing chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol and other diet-related problems.


In fact, an endocrinologist once told me that he does not make nutrition referrals because patients don't lose weight anyway.


And a general practitioner suggested that he does not refer patients for nutrition counseling because insurance doesn't cover the consultation. He also suggested that he does not know where or to whom he should refer them.


Clearly, there is a need for physician education on how to ensure that their patients get the medical nutrition therapy they need to better manage chronic diseases.


With this in mind, the next time your doctor says you are overweight, obese, underweight, have diabetes, heart disease, pre-dialysis kidney disease or other diet related problem, ask for a nutrition referral. Then visit the American Dietetic Association website at www.eatright.org and click on "Find a Dietitian."
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