Brief counselling leads to healthier diet

Brief individual behavioural counselling and nutrition education counselling can help low income adults to eat more fruit and vegetables. Steptoe and colleagues (p 855) compared these two methods in general practice, using them with adults living in a deprived, ethnically mixed, inner city area. Fruit and vegetable consumption and plasma biomarkers ( carotene and  tocopherol) assessed at one year follow up increased in both groups, with greater changes in the behavioural counselling group. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among low income adults is a priority in health promotion, which may benefit from brief interventions in primary care.

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