nutrition therapy
(noo-TRIH-shun THAYR-uh-pee)
A nutrition-based treatment plan to help manage or treat certain health conditions. These include diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, digestive system problems, overweight, obesity, malnutrition, and cancer. Nutrition therapy includes assessing a person’s nutrition status, identifying their nutritional and dietary needs and goals, and developing a nutrition care plan. The nutrition care plan may involve changes in a person’s diet, counseling to support behavioral and lifestyle changes, or receiving nutrients through intravenous or tube feeding. Also called medical nutrition therapy.