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ual food needs, create a healthy meal plan for them, assess how effective that meal plan is in managing their disease or weight, and educate them in how their food choices affect their health. Assessing a Person’s Food Needs Food has the power to heal our bodies or hurt our health. It is hard to believe that something that everyone needs has such tremendous power over us. RDNs are trained to examine patients’ activity level, medications, disease diagnosis, and nutritional needs and create a food plan that helps patients become healthier. This requires a knowledge of how people’s

Teaching patients how to read standard nutritional labels is an important part of the patient education process.

What Do Dietitian Nutritionists Do?

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