Nutrient

In this issue, Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN, FAADE, talks with Michelle May, MD, and Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE, about mindful eating for diabetes self-management.

ORLANDO — As the obesity epidemic continues to grow in the United States, it is critical that health care providers confront patient misconceptions about the causes of obesity and how the surplus of “nutritionally-bankrupt food” has contributed to a rise in such chronic diseases, according to a presentation at the Rheumatology Nurses Society Annual Conference.

In this guest commentary, Kate Scarlata, MPH, RDN, a Boston-based registered dietitian, addresses the results of a recent case report published in an open-access journal that indicated that a plant-based diet induced remission in a patient with Crohn’s disease. The results received a significant amount of social media attention and touted a plant-based diet as a ‘cure’, however as Scarlata notes, that’s not necessarily the case.