Nutrition

Nutrition

1.    Introduction to Diet, Nutrition & Oral Health:

Diet and Nutrition are an important part of health at all stages of life.
Some aspects of diet will promote oral health whilst others will contribute to oral/dental disease.
The Oral Health Professional will often need to discuss diet with patients for a wide range of reasons.
A.    List 5 conditions or situations where diet should be included in supporting your patients:
5 marks

B.    Dietary intervention can be Proactive or Reactive.  Explain what this means and give an example of each: 4 marks

2.    What has influenced your Diet & Food choices?

Think about your own diet and food choices and answer the following questions.
You can limit your response to a brief paragraph.  We welcome the use of pictures to enhance your work for this section.

A.    Consider 3 factors that you think are the most important in having influenced& shaped  your diet  and explain briefly how:  9 marks

B.    What are 2 of your favourite foods and explain what has influenced your choice:  6 marks

C.    What are 2 foods that you really dislike and explain why: 6 marks

D.    Most of us at some stage will have made a change to our eating habits or food choices or followed a specific diet? Briefly explain your choice and why (refer to the course notes for examples).  Include whether this diet or change has become a permanent part of your life or not and briefly explain why.  If you have not ever changed your diet in anyway then you will need to ask a friend or family member and write a response according to what they tell you.  6 marks

3.    Stages of undertaking a dietary consultation

In order to provide dietary advice to another person, you need to know something about their food choices and dietary habits.  There are different methods of asking patients about their diet.  These were discussed in the lecture.  Two commonly used methods include the 24 hour recall and the Diet History.
You will find 2 templates attached to this document.
A.    Please conduct ONE24 hour recallon a family member or friend. 2 marks
B.    AND ONEDiet history on a family member or friend.  2 marks