Summarize the therapeutic lifestyle changes for lowering the risk of coronary heart disease


Dietary and lifestyle modifications help to correct blood lipid abnormalities and eliminate other risk factors. Dietary recommendations are to reduce saturated fat, trans fats, and cholesterol; increase soluble fiber; and incorporate plant sterols, plant stanols, and fish into the diet. In addition, healthy living including regular exercise, sleep and not smoking also reduces risk factors for coronary heart disease.

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Nutrition care outcomes that demonstrate improved body composition measures are known as _______________.

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Key people who control other people’s access to foods and thereby exert profound impacts on their nutrition are called ________.

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A patient with chronic pancreatitis should consume oral pancreatic enzymes:

a. with large meals and fatty foods b. only if steatorrhea increases c. with all meals and snacks d. only if consuming a high fat, low protein diet

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How has the nutrition transition affected nutrient intake?

What will be an ideal response?

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