Part 1: Assessment
Weight | Activity | Variety | Excess

Variety

Is patient eating a variety of foods from important sections of the food pyramid?  Determine Variety and Excess using one or a combination of the following methods:

• Compare foods eaten with Food Pyramid recommendations: "Think about what you usually eat for each food group and indicate the number of servings of each pyramid section."
  
• Perform a quick one-day recall: "Briefly describe everything you eat or drink in a typical day, beginning with the first thing eaten after waking up."
  
  
• Ask patient to complete a self-administered food frequency questionnaire.

How to assess variety.

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Part 2: Recommendations

The WAVE nutrition pocket guide was developed by Claudia Barner PhD, RD, Judith Wylie-Rosett EdD, RD, Kim Gans PhD, MPH, LDN and members of the Patient and Practice Resources Committee, NIH Nutrition Academic Award with funds from NIH NAA grant HL03924.