"Dietary compliance" refers to following a specific eating plan or diet that has been recommended by a healthcare professional or nutritionist. It means sticking to the guidelines and restrictions of the diet in order to achieve desired health outcomes.
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Patient education that emphasizes the importance of protein intake can help patients achieve the highest level
of dietary compliance and the best clinical outcomes.
The patient was under our close control and gave frequent feedbacks and so we could assess the level
of dietary compliance.
To help
assess dietary compliance, participants kept food diaries and were required to adhere to a low - polyphenolic diet that eliminated fruits, vegetables, tea, coffee, alcohol, chocolate and whole grains for the duration of the study.
Weight is regained
despite dietary compliance with the caloric restriction and even as your friends and family silently accuse you of cheating on your diet.
While higher protein generally leads to
better dietary compliance and better muscle retention, your muscles will not fall off if you eat 50g under once in a while.
Which is one of the reasons purposefully making errors in macronutrient calculations can be an extremely beneficial strategy for maintaining long -
term dietary compliance.
In the study from Northern Ireland, four of the five people who still had positive EMA - IgA test results one year after diagnosis had what the researchers termed «
poor dietary compliance.»
The researchers also had daily contact with the participants and based upon their analysis
deemed dietary compliance to be around 93 %.
The Diabetes Self - Management Scale (DMS), formerly the Diabetes Self - Care Practice Instrument (Frey & Denyes, 1989; Schilling, 2002), is a 25 - item self - report questionnaire measuring self - care behaviors and caregiver support of adherence behaviors,
including dietary compliance, insulin injections, blood glucose monitoring, and exercise.
To help
assess dietary compliance, participants kept food diaries and were required to adhere to a low - polyphenolic diet that eliminated fruits, vegetables, tea, coffee, alcohol, chocolate and whole grains for the duration of the study.
On the basis of weight stability and
dietary compliance, the metabolic changes that occurred after 5 wk of the high - protein diet were considered to be attributed to the increase in protein or decrease in carbohydrate content of the diet, or both, rather than other confounding factors.
Although there isn't a physiological benefit to having excess protein, it's the most filling macronutrient and can help
dietary compliance.
Effects of parents» psychological characteristics and eating behaviour on childhood obesity and dietary compliance