Right problem and options

What is your problem and what are your options?

When you are thinking about nutrition interventions, make sure that you understand what the health problem is and what your choices are.

To make a good decision, you need to understand what your health problem is and what, if any, your nutrition choices are for addressing that problem.

First, you need to know what condition you have (the correct diagnosis). Or, if you are not sick, you need to know what problem you are trying to avoid or prevent, and how big your chances are of having that problem (your baseline risk).

After that, you (or the people taking care of you) need to know what nutrition interventions are available for the problem you have or are trying to prevent.

Some decisions need to be made by a team of relevant people; for example, say the problem is more children becoming obese in a country. For such decisions, the people involved need to first make sure they understand what the problem is and how important it is. Then they need to know what nutrition interventions (options) there are for the problem.

REMEMBER: Make sure that you understand what your health problem is and what your choices are.