Tool That Helps Dietitians Deliver Info Clients Need And Can Understand

More evidence that the worse than useless dietitians have been giving clients the short shrift.

If you've consulted with a nutrition educator about how best to lose weight or manage your diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, you may not have learned as much as you could have, said a University of Illinois professor of nutrition extension.

"Only 80 percent of the dietitians we surveyed did any pre-assessment of the client's nutrition literacy, which makes it difficult for educators to target their counseling so clients can understand and act on the information they are given," said Karen Chapman-Novakofski, also a registered dietitian.

Chapman-Novakofski's recent doctoral student Heather Gibbs has developed an algorithm that dietitians can use to determine precisely what knowledge and skills are required for a particular client.

Having dietitians been selling their services on the basis of how they personalize diets for their clients?

Now we are told that not only do clients not learn all they apparently should, but heretofore there was no "algorithm that dietitians can use to determine precisely what knowledge and skills are required for a particular client."

If you want to lose weight and eat healthily, go here and here.

Don't go to a dietitian or conventional "weight loss expert."