How to talk to patients about diet – part 1
Watch these two video lessons and then answer the discussion question by navigating to the Comments section located at the bottom of the second lesson.
In Part 1, Alyce presents:
- Why it’s crucially important to discuss diet with patients;
- Weaving nutrition into a 15-minute consultation;
- How to meet a patient where they are and guide them to manageable changes; and
- How to assess a patient’s diet in 10 minutes or less.
Dr Alyce Churchill is a General Practitioner and a Senior Medical Practitioner in Psychiatry. Before joining general practice she worked at several Western Australian hospitals as a resident medical officer and later as a Psychiatry Registrar. Alyce has been an advocate of plant-based nutrition and preventative medicine since adopting a whole food plant-based diet in 2013. Her catalyst for changing from a vegetarian diet was learning the evidence of a whole food plant-based diet in preventing and reversing so many Western diseases that she encountered every day at work. In 2015, Alyce created and launched the recipe and meal planning app Plant Based Easy to the iPhone store and in 2016 started the Facebook meet-up and education group Plant Powered Perth with Kelsey Brymer and Kamarra Morris. Alyce also holds a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Centre for Nutrition Studies at eCornell University and has twice attended the International Plant Based Nutrition in Healthcare conference in California.
All references are available in a single PDF, which can be downloaded from the ‘References and further resources’ lesson.
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