Precontemplation

Goal for Client Intervention:

Encourage understanding of how healthy food choices decrease risks to health.

Intervention Options:

ADVISE:

• Increase awareness of particular risks apparent from medication history or visual impression that could be attributable to unhealthy eating practices.
  Your risk for ___________ is reduced when you make healthy food choices.

ASSIST:

• Encourage critical thinking about current food choices.
  How would you know if what you ate was a problem for you?  
• Support belief that healthy eating and a healthy weight improve health.
  Eating from the 4 food groups in the amount needed for your age, body size and activity level makes you feel and look good.  
• Foster belief that people can change behaviour.
  One small step in the right direction usually leads to another.  
• Provide resources if willing.
  This information is new for many people.
  Have a look and see how this compares with what you eat.

Resource Options (Click to order):

Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide 

Is for people 2 years and over.  Detailed recommendations for the number of servings from each of the four food groups are based on age and gender.

Future Intervention:

ASK:

• Have you thought about the importance of healthy eating to lower your risk for __________?

Click on Contemplation (or whatever stage they are at) below for examples of what the health professional might say to clients. These are suggestions to stimulate your thinking about what you want to say to that particular client.