Description
What a consultation cannot deliver
Dietary advice given in the last four minutes of a clinic appointment does not survive the journey home. The patient nods, means it, and then faces a supermarket without any of the specifics they actually needed. Every clinician knows this and very few have anything concrete to hand over instead.
These 468 pages are that hand-over.
Why the Academy lists patient material
Because prescribing a lifestyle change without supplying the means to follow it is not much of an intervention. Members increasingly ask for material they can recommend by name rather than telling a patient to look it up — which reliably delivers them to whatever a search engine ranks that week.
Specific rather than aspirational
The value is the food list. Twenty-five chapters of actual items, portions and substitutions, rather than the categories that make dietary guidance easy to write and impossible to follow. Cooking methods, restaurant and travel situations, and how to adapt across the cuisines patients actually eat.
Where clinicians use it
Post-infarct and post-revascularisation counselling, risk-factor clinics, and the newly diagnosed hypertensive or diabetic patient who has been told to change their diet and has no idea how.
PDF, lifetime access, from CardiologyBooks.com.
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