Abstract

Purpose To address the low dietary adherence issue in clinical practice, it is important to promote a diet plan that has a broad spectrum of diet options to better match individual patient food preferences, lifestyles, and personal health profiles. Whole Foods Diet (WFD) offers more diet options to patients and guides them on how to make the right diet choices. This preliminary study assessed patients’ adherence to the WFD and summarized the lessons learned.

Highlights

  • To address the low dietary adherence issue in clinical practice, it is important to promote a diet plan that has a broad spectrum of diet options to better match individual patient food preferences, lifestyles, and personal health profiles

  • Lessons learned from a preliminary study of Whole Food Diet used by primary care patients

  • Measures included self-reported dietary adherence rates, waist to hip ratio (WHR), BMI, and eating behaviors measured by the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ)

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Lessons learned from a preliminary study of Whole Food Diet used by primary care patients. From International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health 2012 Portland, Oregon, USA. Purpose To address the low dietary adherence issue in clinical practice, it is important to promote a diet plan that has a broad spectrum of diet options to better match individual patient food preferences, lifestyles, and personal health profiles. Whole Foods Diet (WFD) offers more diet options to patients and guides them on how to make the right diet choices. This preliminary study assessed patients’ adherence to the WFD and summarized the lessons learned

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