HTHSCI 3BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Glucose Tolerance Test, Gestational Diabetes, Ferritin

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 3BB3
• Professor: Teresa Mccurdy

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Health conditions: high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, arthritis. Their role is to promote health through foods and nutrition. There are no good or bad foods foods for the body are the healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables and food for the soul involves comfort food such as sweets. Comfort food is okay once in a while and you cannot tell the patient to not eat them because that is not realistic. As rn"s (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ill hea(cid:396) (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:455)ou(cid:396) patie(cid:374)ts a(cid:271)out foods. Some evidence-based and many not evidence based. Our goal is to promote health and avoid harm. For example, a lot of people say they are eliminating gluten because they are trying to lose weight. We need to address these issues because we know it is not evidence based. We should not ignore the issue because our practice is evidence based.