ABSTRACT

The organization of dietary data based on adherence to change in nutrition lifestyle can be of benefit in terms of designing nutrition intervention programs.

Because of the streamlining of the Prochaska/DiClemente model to include three stages of change — sure, unsure, and not ready to change — an automatic categorization of nutrition lifestyle change is available. This is one way of tailoring a nutrition intervention to a particular stage of readiness. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 provide specific ways of counseling for each stage of change in each lifecycle stage.