A Comprehensive Dietary History Is Important When Evaluating Patients with Obesity

question 9

Multiple Choice

A comprehensive dietary history is important when evaluating patients with obesity. The following are appropriate to review except:

• A) 24-hour recall of current usual foods, including quantity, type, and meal times
• B) Emotional and behavioral cues to eating
• C) Cultural orientation to food and weight
• D) Birth weight and feeding pattern during infancy

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Definitions:

Curse Of Knowledge

A cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, knowing something, finds it hard to think about the subject from the perspective of someone less knowledgeable.

Susceptibility

The likelihood or tendency to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing or condition.

Egocentrism

The inability to differentiate between self and other, often resulting in viewing the world solely from one's own perspective.

Conservation

The understanding that certain properties of an object or substance remain the same even when its appearance changes, a concept grasped during the concrete operational stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development.