A nurse is helping a person reduce stress-disinhibition related to poor dietary choices. Which of the following nursing interventions would be most appropriate?
a. Work with the person to develop a plan to slowly replace high-fat, high-calorie foods with more healthy choices.
b. Encourage the person to eliminate all high-calorie, high-fat foods from the diet as quickly as possible.
c. Give the person a standard list of low-fat, low-calorie foods.
d. Provide the person a copy of the Food Guide Pyramid.
Ans: a. Work with the person to develop a plan to slowly replace high-fat, high-calorie foods with more healthy choices.
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