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Medical Nutrition Therapy: Managing Disease with Individualized Dietary Recommendations and Intervention

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Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This statement is the essence of medical nutrition therapy (MNT). MNT is nutritional diagnostic, therapeutic, and counseling services for the purpose of disease management, which are provided by a nutrition professional [1]. While dietary recommendations or clinical practice guidelines offer general healthy dietary strategies, MNT is a recognized and individualized therapeutic approach to treat disease, medical conditions, and associated symptoms with diet. MNT is similar to other therapeutic domains, e.g., physical, occupational, psychological, and speech therapies, which are medically recognized and deployed by trained experts. Food and nutrition professionals, including registered dietitian nutritionists (RDN, also known as registered dietitians), are the purveyors of MNT. For some patients, depending on the patient and his/her medical condition(s), broad recommendations such as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (developed by the US Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture) [2] or those of the American Heart Association [3] may suffice. But when patients need or inquire about diet related to special concerns or risk factors, consultation with a RDN is appropriate. This consult is especially appropriate for patients with multifactorial conditions with variable expression and symptomology between patients.

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    Cassandra Vanderwall MS, RD, CD, CDE, CPT

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    Patrick Lowry

  2. Department of Urology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Kristina L. Penniston

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Vanderwall, C. (2018). Medical Nutrition Therapy: Managing Disease with Individualized Dietary Recommendations and Intervention. In: Lowry, P., Penniston, K. (eds) Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16414-4_1

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