A panel of experts suggest that if people turned to their doctors for advice to improve their eating habits or how to lose weight via screening for poor dietary habits during routine appointments, patients may be better able to prevent or manage diet related chronic diseases.
“This AHA scientific statement is designed to accelerate efforts to make diet quality assessment an integral part of office-based care delivery by encouraging critical conversations among clinicians, individuals with diet/lifestyle expertise and specialists in information technology,” the committee wrote.
According to research, diet quality is indicated to highly influence the risk for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and other serious health conditions, note the authors who published their report in the journal Circulation.
