Nutrition therapy

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-005980",
  "term": "Nutrition therapy",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A nutrition-based treatment plan to help manage or treat certain health conditions. These include diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, digestive system problems, overweight, obesity, malnutrition, and cancer. Nutrition therapy includes assessing a person’s nutrition status, identifying their nutritional and dietary needs and goals, and developing a nutrition care plan. The nutrition care plan may involve changes in a person’s diet, counseling to support behavioral and lifestyle changes, or receiving nutrients through intravenous or tube feeding. Also called medical nutrition therapy.",
  "synonyms": [
    "medical nutrition therapy"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/nutrition-therapy/"
}