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Stages Of Change Model

I came upon this article in Nutrition Toady Volume 31 #4 from August 1996.
Nutrition Today isn^Òt quite the magazine you would find me reading, but
to tell you the truth this article interested me greatly. The author is a
lady who has a nutritional doctorate. This article includes many claims
about what it takes physically and mentally to eat right and keep a
healthy body weight, but at the same time it proves those claims with many
facts.
The big question is if dietary behavior change is difficult, how can
health and nutrition professionals effectively intervene. The author uses
the Stages of Change Model as proposed by Prochaska and Colleagues for
addictive behaviors consists of six ...

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targeted behavior. Maintenance is the
stage when a person tries to stabilize the behavior change and prevent
relapse. Termination is the final stage, this occurs when there is zero
temptation to revert back to the old behavior. Now the author uses these
six stages to relate it to dietary habits and how people can use this
process in their lives and make them become aware how to fix their dietary
problems and even problems beyond that.
In this article the author says, and I quote ^ÓThis model may be
useful for nutrition and health professionals in both clinical and
community settings.
It can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational
intervention. As a result of reading this article I became more aware of
myself and what to look for when getting into bad habits. I would
recommend this article to anybody

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Added: 5/22/2007 04:39:55 AM
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Free Paper
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