Culinary Counselling in Chronic Care: The Pentad of Cs & Ps.

Diet and nutrition are an integral part of chronic metabolic disease management. Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) providers focus upon caloric and nutrient adequacy, but do not necessarily incorporate person-friendly recipes in their ambit. In this communication, we share a simple framework of culinary counseling. This supplements MNT, and enhances its value by encouraging adherence and persistence to prescribed therapy.

Low salt South Asian diet.

There is ample discussion about the role of added sugar in the development of metabolic syndrome, and how to minimize it. However, the impact of salt on metabolic syndrome is not understood by many primary care providers. There is minimal discussion in medical literature on patient friendly means of encouraging a low salt diet. This communication suggests simple and pragmatic means of reducing salt intake in a South Asian context, so as to achieve World Health Organization recommended goals of salt intake (5 grams per person per day).