title: Nutrition counseling: meeting the needs of ethnic clients with diabetes.
abstract: Professionals must be proactive in meeting the needs of clients from cultural and ethnic backgrounds that differ from "mainstream America." Maintaining ethnic identity appears to be a trend in today's society. Ethnic and Regional Food Practices--A Series is one step being made in the area of nutrition counseling and education to meet the challenges of a growing ethnic population with diabetes.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bertorelli
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic