Prejudice and dietary counseling.
Current medical practice requires us to be able to educate and alter an individual's approach to health maintenance. The objective is to prevent illness--not only to treat illness. This approach should result in keeping people out of hospitals and clinics. Diet should be thought of as a noun, not a verb. It is not synonymous with the corrective measures it supposedly sill insure, i.e., correct obesity, reduce hypertension, control blood lipid abnormalities. In keeping with this approach, USAF medical team members should be able to do dietary counseling. This paper will examine each of these topics, emphasizing dietary prejudice at the level of the counselor, the subject and his family, and the USAF medical team.
D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D003376:Counseling; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011287:Prejudice; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D014481:United States