Dietary advice and heart disease: a nursing dilemma?

David, R. Thompson

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Dietary advice and heart disease: a nursing dilemma?

David, R. Thompson ^*

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School of Nursing and Midwifery

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This paper reviews the debate concerning the relationship between dietary fats and heart disease. The paper also addresses the questions "should nurses persuade patients with heart disease to follow a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet?", "If so, will patients be less liable to a heart attack?" and "are such recommendations based on valid scientific evidence?". The author examines the recent evidence which is critical of such dietary regimens, and claims that much of the dietary advice given by nurses to these patients is biased, misleading and scientifically unfounded.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	245-253
Number of pages	9
Journal	International Journal of Nursing Studies
Volume	20
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7489(83)90016-0
Publication status	Published - 01 Jan 1983

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