Nutrition counseling is a type of assessment

made which analyzes various health needs in

regard to diet and exercise.
Nutrition counseling is an ongoing process in
which a health professional, usually a
registered dietitian, works with an individual
to assess his or her usual dietary intake and
identify areas where change is needed.
 A nutrition counselor helps people to set
achievable health goals and teaches various
ways of maintaining these goals throughout
their lifetime.
Nutrition counselor provides :
Information
PURPOSE :
Educational materials Help individual make and
maintain the needed dietary
Support changes

Follow up
 Assesing dietary habits
Assesing body weight
Identifying changes needed
Identifying barriers to
change
Setting goal
Finding support
Maintaining changes
 People make behavioral changes only
when they are ready to change
The nutrition intervention, including
both the content and nutritionists
style, is a powerful determinant of
resistance and denial, as well as
motivation, in person who want to
make changes in their diet
Different intervention are needed for
persons who are different phases of
motivation
 Expressing empathy
Understanding cultural
Developing discrepancy
Avoiding arguments or
defensiveness
Rolling with resistance
Supporting self-efficacy
 Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Relapse
 Affirming = telling a patient that what he or
she is doing is normal and understandable
given the circumstances, supporting the
patient change effect
Alignment = supportive statement telling a
patient that the counselor understand and is
with him or her in difficult times
Empathy = technique by which the counselor
accept a patient feeling
 Contemplation = once some awareness of the
problem arises, the person enters a period of
ambivalences
Registered dietitian =A registered dietitian is
a food and nutrition expert who has met the
minimum academic and professional
requirements to qualify for the credential
"RD."