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How do you incorporate nutrition counseling into your already busy clinical life? What are some specific, time-effective suggestions that busy clinicians can use? In this episode, Robert Ostfeld, MD, MSc, FACC, and Eugenia Gianos, MD, FACC, discuss ways to incorporate nutrition counseling into busy clinical practice, including the following key takeaways:

• Nutrition counseling is at the core of doctoring, and a healthful diet is recommended by the ACC’s prevention guidelines.
• Incorporating educational hand-outs, short educational videos, and screening questionnaires into practice is feasible.
• Incorporating nutrition counseling into your practice may improve patient outcomes and make practicing more rewarding.

For more, visit www.acc.org/CardioNutrition.