Association Between Chiropractic and Allopathic Percieved Level of Training in Nutrition with Nutritional


positive correlation with nutritional counseling practice patterns for both chiropractic and allopathic physicians.


Given the alarming mortality rates associated with obesity and overweight patients, physicians may want to consider chiropractic as part of the co-management for this condition. Since this is an observational study, causal inference is not claimed. Further research with other  


Keywords: chiropractor, physician, nutrition, counseling, 


Counseling Practice Patterns for Patients with Obesity in the US Between 1995 and 2015


by: Adrian Isaza, DC EDITORS NOTE:


The following article is like “preaching to the choir” with our readership, but has some thought provoking, interesting points.


ABSTRACT: A publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2013 indicated that based on a systematic review and meta-analysis through 2012 more than 270,000 deaths were associated with overweight and obesity.


OBJECTIVE: This study compared the correlation between chiropractic and allopathic perceived level of nutrition training in relation to nutritional counseling practice patterns for patients with obesity.


METHODS: For chiropractic and allopathic perceived level of training in nutrition and chiropractic and allopathic nutrition counseling practice patterns in patients with obesity, a search of the pubmed and google scholar electronic database.


Only studies measuring the percent of chiropractors who performed nutritional counseling for obesity was included and only studies measuring the percent of visits where nutritional counseling was performed were included.


RESULTS: A higher percentage of chiropractors perceive their education training as adequate compared to allopathic doctors (43/22). 59% of chiropractors provided nutritional counseling for patients with obesity while allopathic doctors provided nutritional counseling to obese patients in 40% of the visits.


CONCLUSION In this study, perceived level of nutrition training had a


THE ORIGINAL INTERNIST JUNE 2015 INTRODUCTION


A publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2013 indicated that based on a systematic review and meta-analysis through 2012, more than 270,000 deaths were associated with overweight and obesity.1


In 2013, Callahan conducted a prospective study of 7 patients who underwent the same 21 day nutritional  3


The condition of obesity was selected because of the studies showing the effectiveness of counseling by chiropractors in reducing weight in obese patients. In 2008, Powell, et al, conducted a retrospective study of 28 patients who underwent a 21 day nutritional intervention program  2


In 2014, Demaria, et al, conducted a retrospective analysis of 16 patients who underwent a 13-week weight loss 4


There has been studies reporting a lack of counseling to patients who were obese for both adults and children. In 1999, Galuska, et al, conducted a survey of 12,835 adults who were obese and found that only forty-two percent of participants reported that their health care professional advised them to lose weight.5


conducted a study between 2001 and 2004 and found that in 55,695,554 visits from obese children, only in 42.1% of visits nutritional counseling was performed.6


2011, Smith, et al, conducted a nationally representative survey of 1211 primary care physicians sampled from the American Medical.


        diet, exercise, or weight control for obese and overweight patients.7


In 2014, Wilkinson, et al, conducted a study of 1,002  no weight advice.8


Other studies have addressed the perceived level of training for the treatment of obesity and the success rate treating obesity. In 2003, Block, et al, conducted a survey of 87 internal medicine residents and found


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